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Keynote Address Why Geopolitics Matters

A 12-minute address on why world events now land directly on leadership agendas - and what it costs when they don't.

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Selected Appearances
KFW Russia, Ukraine, China and Global Geopolitics

A keynote address covering the strategic realignment triggered by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, China's global positioning and the implications for European security and financial markets.

Goethe University Frankfurt Islamist Terrorism Threat in Europe, the Middle East and Africa

A lecture delivered at the Frankfurt Research Centre on Global Islam examining the evolution and spread of Islamist terrorism across three continents.

Keynote Topics

The Insights That Give Your
Audience An Edge

Signature Keynote

Are We Heading Towards WWIII?

The World on the Edge For Conference Keynotes, All Industries

The question every audience is asking and most speakers will not answer directly. Olivier maps the full picture, every condition, every flashpoint, every realistic scenario including the ones that have not yet reached mainstream coverage.

Each is assigned a probability. Each is paired with what it means for the people in the room.

Why It Matters to Your Room

The clearest, most honest picture available of where global conflict is heading, and why being prepared for it is now a leadership requirement.

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Corporate
Topic

How to Mitigate Geopolitics
in Your Business

For Business Leaders, Corporate Strategists, Legal Departments

No one has the luxury today of ignoring geopolitics. If you do, it's at your own risk, and the consequences could be devastating. Your competition could leave you behind even if you offer a better product or service. World events no longer stay in their lane. What happens in Brussels, Beijing or Beirut lands on boardroom agendas within days.

Multinational companies have been sued for ignoring geopolitical risk and putting their people in harm's way. Some countries are even making it compulsory for large corporations to include geopolitics in their risk assessment of markets where they are present.

This speech will allow you to garner the tools needed to stay ahead of the curve, choose international markets and likely avoid lawsuits. This will also address why geopolitical literacy has become a leadership essential, and what it costs when it is treated as someone else's concern.

Why It Matters to Your Room

A clear-eyed view of where the exposure actually sits, and the confidence to make the call instead of second-guessing it.

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Finance
Topic

How to Use Geopolitics
in Financial Markets

For Money Managers, Bankers

Built for finance and investment audiences, this session maps the developments most likely to affect confidence, exposure and strategic positioning, and what to do before they arrive. Political decisions move markets. Elections reshape trade. Conflicts reprice risk.

This speech will focus on how you can incorporate geopolitical risk in your investment matrix. Stop being surprised by unexpected events that will shape financial markets in the short and medium term. What would you have done if you had known that Russia was going to invade Ukraine in 2022? And what about two Middle East wars in less than 9 months?

Olivier will show you how to be more in control when it comes to geopolitics, knowing which way to lean before the position is already crowded, not after, so the edge shows up as a decision made a week before the headline, not a week after.

Why It Matters to Your Room

The next move in markets is being shaped by a decision somewhere in the world right now. This session shows your team how to read it before the headline does.

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Strategy & Outlook
Topic

the Outlook only
Governments usually get

For C-Suite, Strategists, Professional Investors

In a whirlwind presentation, Olivier will span the whole globe when it comes to where we are going. New hotspots you never thought of; safe countries becoming unsafe; unsafe countries coming out of a negative outlook; conflicts between superpowers on many continents.

You will learn how everything is interconnected and how nations never act in a vacuum, especially the superpowers. In this speech, you will get the signals, the flashpoints and the slow-moving developments that most commentary has not yet connected, before they become the crisis nobody saw coming.

His analysis comes from the same rooms that brief ministers and chiefs of staff, not from open-source commentary repeated a week after the fact.

Why It Matters to Your Room

A working map of where the next 12 to 24 months are headed, not just a list of things to worry about.

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Boards & Leadership
Topic

Do you want the map
nobody else has?

For C-Suite, Leading Executives, Sophisticated Professional Investors

What makes this speech essential? Most briefings give you one or two scenarios when it comes to international political events.

Here, Olivier maps every plausible outcome, including the ones nobody else has named, assigns each a probability and pairs it with a mitigation plan.

That is the same approach that, in October 2023, days after the Hamas attack, produced five separate scenarios for how the region would respond. Four have since been confirmed, the fifth came close.

This speech is built for organisations that cannot afford to be caught off guard.

Why It Matters to Your Room

No more failure of imagination inside your organisation. The ability to act rather than react, because nothing catches you by surprise.

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Olivier is an informed knowledgeable professional who understands the complexities of evolving security environments and the triggers and cultural nuances
that impact change.

Todd Brown
Deputy Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of State; ex-Director, NATO Office of Security

Olivier Guitta's geopolitical briefs provide the professional analyst and the lay reader the necessary tools to identify the dynamic political trends as well as the more static cultural undercurrents that define
today's and tomorrow's events.

Jane Corbin
Senior Reporter, BBC Panorama

Olivier is an astute and perceptive analyst of global geopolitical trends, who sees and relates the granular with the big picture to have an
informed, forward-looking view.

Bob McNally
President, Rapidan Energy Group; former Special Assistant to the President, National Security Council

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Olivier Guitta speaking at a conference
On Stage

Clarity under pressure.
Insight that holds.

Olivier has spoken at conferences, parliamentary briefings and investor forums across Europe, the Middle East and North America. His sessions are built for audiences who need clarity on complex global developments, not simplified takes or generic frameworks.

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Speaking clients
NATO European Parliament Eaton Vance Squire Patton Boggs ASIS International Comgest
What To Expect

The Room
The Outcome

Who Books Olivier
01

Conferences and Summits

Leadership conferences, industry events, annual summits and association conferences where audiences expect substance over spectacle.

02

Finance and Investment Events

Investor conferences, market outlook events, private wealth forums and banking events where geopolitical context needs to be commercially grounded.

03

Corporate Leadership Events

Executive offsites, board strategy days, leadership retreats and client events where senior audiences need external perspective on the forces shaping their decisions.

04

Government and Institutional Forums

Policy leadership events, international affairs forums and institutional gatherings requiring depth, rigour and discretion.

Your Audience Will Walk Away With

A clearer picture of what is actually happening

Which global developments are most likely to affect their sector in the next 12 to 24 months, and why most of what they are reading is noise.

The ability to tell signals from noise

An understanding of the difference between developments that matter and those that do not, and why most organisations consistently miss the early ones.

Sharper questions to take back to their team

Not just new information but a better framework for asking the right questions inside their organisation. Practically useful, not abstractly interesting.

Commercial and market relevance, not theory

Every session is grounded in how geopolitical developments translate into business conditions, market movements and strategic decisions. No academic detours.

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