Rome, Latium, Italy
Alessandro Politi is a global political and strategic analyst. Director of the NDC Foundation (Rome). He is currently: • Directing the Foundation; • teaching Geopolitics at IASSP/PwC Italia (Milan) In the past 10 years he has: • taught geopolitics, geoeconomics and intelligence at the SIOI school (Rome); • Worked as Chief Political Advisor for two Commanders of the NATO KFOR in Kosovo; • Analysed Latin America and led the Global Outlook until 2015 at CeMiSS; • briefed NATO and major private companies and associations; • consulted for the Italian ENI energy group; • worked as Global Scenario Officer for Expert Italia, a Milan-based public policy consulting company; • advised the Chairman of the Intelligence Oversight Committee of the Italian Parliament; • advised the Italian Intelligence Co-ordinator; • directed the global forecasting and analysis project Nomos & Khaos (Law and Chaos) of Nomisma, the major Italian economy think tank (Bologna); • provided strategic analysis in the Crisis Monitoring Group and for the Strategic Reflection Committee of the Italian MFA; • directed the research project “The world in 20 years”, aimed at generating industrial long-term scenarios for the Alenia Aeronautica (Finmeccanica group), aerospace company and the research on civil aviation for the Italian political think tank AREL (Rome); • took part to the first EU classified project on bioterrorism BIO3R (Bioterrorism Resilience, Research, Reaction). He has worked in the past with three Italian Defence Ministers, one National Armaments Director and one Greek Defence Minister. Specialties: Global geopolitical analysis, AI interactions in diplomacy and strategy, scenario generation, political and strategic analysis, strategic forecasting, OSINT, country and regional risk analysis, security and defence
- Organization of international conferences on major NATO and global outreach issues since 2012: NATO, Balkans, Arab Geopolitics, Game Changers, Africa, Central Asia, Eastern Europe (www.natofoundation.org) - Editing the books of the conferences' proceedings and writing regularly their Political Summary - Networking - High level international policy and strategy training, giving tailored courses to decision makers and their staff - Scientific direction of events and researches - Coordination of the Strategic Trends forecasting activity - Direct liaison and collaboration with the relevant NATO HQ Divisions and with the NATO Defense College (Rome) - NDCF analysts’ training workshop, 18/9/2013 - Holding several conferences - Two books published during my tenure "Shaping Security Horizons" and "Goodbye Merkel".
Advising the Commander of the NATO Kosovo Force on internal and regional political developments; facilitating the collaboration with the other international organizations; preventing relevant crises; managing a qualified information and analysis production for the KFOR HQ.
Strategic Analysis of Latin America Responsible for the Global Outlook 2013-2014-2015.
Directing a research team in the framework of a multi-firm consultancy project on global country risk analysis.