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About John Hulsman

For the past fifteen years Dr. John C. Hulsman has been the President and Managing Partner of John C. Hulsman Enterprises a prominent global political risk consulting firm. Literally the sun never sets on Johns political risk analysis: He is Senior Columnist for City AM the newspaper of the city of London while also writing regular columns on geopolitics macroeconomics and politics for Arab News in Riyadh The Hill newspaper in Washington Aspen in Rome and various outlets in New Delhi. Prior to this Hulsman served as Fellow in European Policy Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and Senior Research Fellow in Geopolitics and Foreign Policy at the Heritage Foundation for seven years the largest think tank in the world. A Washington insider he is a Life Member of the US Council on Foreign Relations the pre-eminent US foreign policy institution. Hulsman is the author of all or part of 14 books has given over 1560 interviews written over 1110 articles prepared over 1360 briefings and delivered more than 620 speeches on global political risk and foreign policy for blue-chip corporations and governments around the world. Hulsman has made a name for himself as the pre-eminent predictor of global geopolitical risk in our new multipolar era uniquely calling the Brexit referendum result the 2020 US election perfectly (Presidency House and Senate) the coming of the Sino-American Cold War the tragic US failures at nation-building in Iraq and Afghanistan and the rise of endemic inflation as well as correctly calling 18 of his firms past 20 major political risk predictions. His most recent work the best-selling To Dare More Boldly: The Audacious Story of Political Risk was published by Princeton University Press in April 2018. To keep up with all of Johns work during please subscribe at: johnhulsman.substack.com.