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Dr. John C. Hulsman is the President and Co-Founder of John C. Hulsman Enterprises, a successful political risk consulting firm, concentrating on the major, game changing foreign and economic policy issues that will determine the character of the western world in the new era of multiple powers. Over the past year he has worked with private sector clients (such as Bank of America/Merrill Lynch and Black Rock Investment Fund) as well as the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Pentagon, and the British Ministry of Defence, trying to make sense for these world-class clients of the nature of the new multipolar era we find ourselves in.

All of this practical commercial and governmental work is augmented by continuing first-rate intellectual projects; during 2011 Hulsman also worked with Cambridge University and the Aspen Institute on the rise of the BRICS, the Arab Spring, and the coming American election. A huge competitive advantage of the firm is that, like Hulsman, it is as at home in Europe as in America, in the boardroom as in the briefing room and the class room.

Specifically by focusing on the possible game changers in foreign policy—the few monumental topics and events that can radically upend the conventional wisdom of the workaday world—Hulsman avoids the margins and minutiae, instead offering bold, proven, uncannily on-target analysis of the major geopolitical issues (such as the American elections in 2012 and the country’s ongoing fiscal crisis, the euro zone crisis, the Iranian nuclear crisis, the Arab Spring, and the promise and perils of the Indian Ocean Rim and China) that are essential for global businesses as well as governments to master, in order to survive and thrive in the new era of multipolarity. Despite the troubled economic times we live in, since its inception in 2006, the firm has always made of yearly profit of at least 25 percent.

Prior to heading his dynamic firm, Hulsman was Senior Research Fellow at The Hague Centre For Strategic Studies (HCSS), the Alfred von Oppenheim Scholar in Residence at the German Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin, Senior Research Fellow in European Affairs at The Heritage Foundation, and Research Fellow at The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington.

Having given over 1430 interviews, Hulsman is a frequent commentator around the world on foreign policy issues. He makes regular appearances with major international media outlets such as ABC, CBS, Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, PBS, Comedy Central and the BBC. In fact in the past year, C-SPAN devoted an hour-long interview to Hulsman’s foreign policy views—as well as his rediscovery of the very old Italian feudal business model his firm embodies--on its flagship program, Q and A. He also has written over 260 published articles on international relations for publications such as The Spectator, The Financial Times, The International Herald Tribune, The Los Angeles Times, Harper’s Magazine, Policy Review, Newsweek, USA Today, the Christian Science Monitor, Die Welt, National Interest, and Le Monde.

In addition he has given 1,180 high-level briefings at the invitation of the U.S. Department of State, the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Council, the House International Relations Committee, and governments around the world. Hulsman has also delivered more than 410 speeches and papers at conferences sponsored by Cambridge, Harvard, Yale, Stanford, the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, the German Council on Foreign Relations, the French Army War College, the Aspen Institute, the German Marshall Fund, the European Parliament, NATO, and the Department of State.

A life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and author of all or part of 10 books in the past 13 years, Hulsman’s last three mass market books (Ethical Realism, The Godfather Doctrine , and an acclaimed biography of Lawrence of Arabia, To Begin The World Over Again) have all been Amazon bestsellers.

Hulsman has also taught European Security Studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), and world politics and U.S. foreign policy at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland.

He has also traveled extensively, having spent over half his working life in Europe. Hulsman lived in Scotland for seven years (while earning his doctorate and master’s degrees in modern history and international relations from the University of St. Andrews), Holland for two years, and spent the last six years in Germany, with Bavaria presently being his home base. Having lived transatlanticism, Hulsman, by his singular background, is almost uniquely at home on both sides of the Atlantic; his life has been an invaluable analytical advantage in all of his work.