Preparing organizations and leaders for the future of international peace and security
Strategy and foresight/Institutional adaptation/Early warning and situational awareness
I work with governments, international organizations, security institutions, and political and operational leaders on how emerging technologies affect strategic decision-making in international peace and security, including in crisis settings.
I bring close to a decade in the United Nations peace and security system, including co-leading the Secretary-General’s first system-wide Data Strategy and building the first global monitoring framework across fourteen UN peace operations.
AI and other emerging technologies are changing how institutions assess threats, verify information, establish responsibility and identify possible responses. Adapting to these conditions requires more than better analysis or new technical capabilities.
Delivered through analysis and strategy work, foresight, scenario exercises and executive education.
In some peace and security settings, institutions responsible for observation, mediation or protection are less technologically equipped than the actors operating around them. This affects what they can independently verify, how their impartiality is perceived and which decisions they can credibly defend.
Verification and shared situational understanding remain essential. But institutions also need procedures that allow responsible action when evidence is incomplete, attribution is disputed and a common factual picture cannot be established in time.
Strategic choices are shaped before they reach senior leadership. Information access, analytical assumptions, institutional dependencies and judgments about feasibility all influence which options are considered. Emerging technologies increasingly affect these earlier stages of decision-making.
Strategy development, advisory, commissioned scenario exercises, executive education, speaking and moderation.