Episode 289: Trump & the World: The New Geopolitics of Trade, Technology, Energy and War with John Sitilides

ByElisa Garbil

Coordinated and Produced by Elisa Garbil Dive into a high-stakes conversation with geopolitical strategist John Sitilides as he unpacks global risks! From shifting tariff strategies and corporate resilience to supply-chain de-risking, digital decoupling, sanctions, energy markets, and the future of the U.S. dollar. A must-listen for leaders navigating an increasingly divided world. John Sitilides is a professional…

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Risk and Resilience in a Fragmenting Global Order

ByElisa Garbil

Written by Elisa Garbil – 24.11.2025 The era of seamless globalisation has entered a period of structural stress. What once appeared to be an inexorable process of economic integration is now fracturing into competing regional blocs and politicised supply chains. The assumption that trade would naturally expand, that borders would soften, and that efficiency would prevail over…

John Sitilides

John Sitilides

ByElisa Garbil

John Sitilides is a professional keynote speaker on geopolitics at corporate, investor, and industry conferences, and before government, military and intelligence community audiences, on geopolitical risk management and the business impacts of international security policies, John Sitilides is Principal at Trilogy Advisors LLC in Washington, D.C., and is Senior Fellow for National Security at the…

Ultra-Processed People - Chris van Tulleken

Ultra-Processed People: Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn’t Food … and Why Can’t We Stop? – Chris van Tulleken

ByElisa Garbil

Written by Elisa Garbil – 21.11.2025 Chris van Tulleken’s Ultra-Processed People is not merely a book about nutrition. It is a sweeping indictment of the industrial food system, an investigation into human physiology, an exploration of global economics, and, perhaps most importantly, a warning about systemic risks accelerating beneath society’s feet. As an infectious diseases doctor and…

Resilience, Hybrid Warfare, and the Future of Security: Lessons from Ukraine

Resilience, Hybrid Warfare, and the Future of Security: Lessons from Ukraine

ByKaterina Mazzucchelli

In this episode of The International Risk Podcast, host Dominic Bowen joins live from Kyiv in conversation with one of our international relations specialists to examine how hybrid warfare, authoritarian cooperation, and civilian resilience are reshaping Europe’s security landscape. Speaking from Ukraine as the country endures its most intense wave of drone and missile attacks…

Episode 282: Live from Ukraine with Dominic Bowen: The Frontlines of Resilience and the Future of Leadership

ByKaterina Mazzucchelli

Today, our host Dominic Bowen joins live from Ukraine on The International Risk Podcast for a special episode examining resilience, leadership, and hybrid warfare in the heart of Europe’s most critical conflict. In conversation with one of our international relations specialist, Dominic reflects on daily life in Kyiv amid the largest drone and missile attacks since the full-scale invasion…

Christina Dixon

Christina Dixon

ByAnna Kummelstedt

Christina Dixon is the Ocean Campaign Leader at the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), responsible for overseeing a team of legal, campaigning and policy experts working on various multilateral, regional and national policy processes related to ocean and plastics governance. Having worked for EIA during the ad-hoc open-ended expert working group process, multiple UNEA sessions and…

The Foil of Ambition: How Consensus-Based Decision-Making is Sabotaging a Global Plastic Treaty

The Foil of Ambition: How Consensus-Based Decision-Making is Sabotaging a Global Plastic Treaty

ByAnna Kummelstedt

“Consensus is worth seeking if it moves us forward, not if it stalls the process” Senimili Nakora, Fiji Delegate at The UN Plastic Treaty Talks in Geneva At 7am on 15 August 2025, the chair of the UN Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) on plastic pollution formally closed what was meant to be the final negotiation…

The Myth of Normal - Gabor Maté

The Myth of Normal: Illness, Health and Healing in a Toxic Culture – Gabor Maté

ByElisa Garbil

Written by Elisa Garbil – 24.10.2025 In The Myth of Normal, Gabor Maté presents a profound critique of contemporary society and the hidden risks embedded within our daily lives. At the heart of his argument is a radical reframing of illness and dysfunction where he asserts that Chronic illness – mental or physical – is to…

Pakistan Underwater: A Tumultous Summer of Floods and Rising Uncertainties over the Indus

Pakistan Underwater: A Tumultous Summer of Floods and Rising Uncertainties over the Indus

ByAnna Kummelstedt

Pakistan has been battling severe monsoon flooding this year, enduring almost constant flooding since June. The devastation has been calamitous. According to the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), since the rains began on 26 June, 998 deaths have been reported. Torrential rains and riverine flooding wreaked havoc across the country’s agricultural heartland: over 4,700 villages…