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Geopolitical Risk

Teneo’s Geopolitical Risk team can translate granular, country-level developments, big-picture geopolitical conflict and trade issues into business and operational takeaways.

Whether executives are looking to monitor a range of issues across multiple markets or need early-warning tools to track and prepare for specific circumstances, clients engage our services to tackle a host of business needs:

Issues triangulation

As the nature of globalization shifts, companies must navigate complex or disparate events over vast geographies, making sense of interlinkages, causes and effects. Our team helps business leaders understand trends and interrelationships among occurrences across and between different markets to inform a strategic approach to global investments, operations, and strategy.

C-suite support

Establishing a trusted advisor relationship with a firm’s executives, our senior leadership supports these key decision-makers in their efforts to digest global events, understand the business implications, and respond. In addition to sharing tailored insights into latest developments, we can advise on messaging around major geopolitical events for internal and external purposes, provide travel briefs and insights into “doing business” in overseas markets, and provide on-demand and rapid reactions to breaking global events.

High-impact events

Our team consistently monitors high-magnitude and breaking global events, unpacking the potential outcomes and assessing the range of implications for our clients. Whether social unrest, a major political upset, a military invasion, or rapid currency depreciation, anticipating, understanding, and preparing for significant upheaval or disruption in a market or region is essential to developing rapid responses and risk mitigation plans.

Narrative refinement

Collaborating across Teneo’s disciplines, our team integrates global geo/political, economic, and social variables into government and public affairs profiles, corporate narratives, and other messaging and strategic planning in a way that can be read and understood by key stakeholder groups linked to your business.

Our Services

We work with clients to design a geopolitical risk approach that best aligns with their own unique circumstances and internal processes to facilitate the application of our analysis to their decision-making and strategic planning processes.

Research relationships

Access to event-driven analysis on latest developments in a country, the implications, risks, and opportunities; access to our global team of analysts.

Market briefs

Ranging from deep dive market entry assessments to deal due diligence, reports are designed with client input and feedback and aligned to specific investment or strategic decisions.

Issues monitoring

Recurring products that track political, fiscal, or monetary policy, regulatory issues, and social trends across multiple markets, weighing the range of client impacts and/or comparative risks and opportunities.

Scenario planning

Highly customizable services that engage our clients in assessing high-impact geopolitical events and their leaderships’ basic assumptions about outcomes and their corporate response.

Key Contacts

  • Emily Stromquist

    Managing Director
  • Anne Frühauf

    Managing Director

Emily Stromquist

Managing Director

Anne Frühauf

Managing Director

Our Strategic Partners at WestExec Advisors

  • Michèle Flournoy

    Co-Founder and Managing Partner, WestExec Advisors
  • Sergio Aguirre

    Co-Founder and Managing Partner, WestExec Advisors
  • Nitin K. Chadda

    Vice Chairman, Teneo and Co-Founder and Managing Partner, WestExec Advisors

Michèle Flournoy

Co-Founder and Managing Partner, WestExec Advisors

Sergio Aguirre

Co-Founder and Managing Partner, WestExec Advisors

Nitin K. Chadda

Vice Chairman, Teneo and Co-Founder and Managing Partner, WestExec Advisors

Regional Teams

Europe

Eurasia

  • Andrius Tursa

    Central & Eastern Europe Advisor

Andrius Tursa

Central & Eastern Europe Advisor

Asia

  • Portrait of Bob Herrera Lim

    Bob Herrera-Lim

    Managing Director
  • Gabriel Wildau

    Managing Director
  • Victor D. Cha

    Senior Advisor
  • James Brady

    Vice President
  • Arpit Chaturvedi

    Advisor
Portrait of Bob Herrera Lim

Bob Herrera-Lim

Managing Director

Gabriel Wildau

Managing Director

Victor D. Cha

Senior Advisor

James Brady

Vice President

Arpit Chaturvedi

Advisor

Africa

  • Anne Frühauf

    Managing Director
  • Manji Cheto

    Senior Advisor

Anne Frühauf

Managing Director

Manji Cheto

Senior Advisor

Middle East & North Africa

  • Emily Stromquist

    Managing Director
  • Jon B. Alterman

    Senior Advisor

Emily Stromquist

Managing Director

Jon B. Alterman

Senior Advisor

Australia

Latin America

  • Portrait of Mario Marconini

    Mario Marconini

    Managing Director
Portrait of Mario Marconini

Mario Marconini

Managing Director

North America

  • Nate Tamarin

    Senior Managing Director and Head of Washington, D.C.
  • Rory Cooper

    Senior Managing Director

Nate Tamarin

Senior Managing Director and Head of Washington, D.C.

Rory Cooper

Senior Managing Director

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