Mission* Who: The Global Water & Energy Strategy Team (GWEST) is a partnership of professionals with interest and expertise in geopolitics, water, oil, gas and other strategic resources. The partners are committed to providing their clients with accurate and timely analysis of variables that affect their short- and long-term interests. Click here to go to our partner bios. * Where: Located physically in Washington, DC, GWEST taps a five-continent network of local experts and analysts who have the understanding of their regions that is only provided by living there. This "boots-on-the-ground" approach enables GWEST to react more surely and quickly to shifting regional conditions. Click here for our contact information. * What: GWEST specializes in context and perspective. As the advance of globalism renders markets more interdependent, business executives are often faced with decisions for which their Cold War-era educations may not have prepared them. The internecine politics of the Middle East, for example, expose businesses there to a unique set of risks that can be hard to identify and quantify. Smart businessmen fear the amorphous, undefined risk far more than the more familiar, statistically quantifiable variety. GWEST has found that estimating some risks requires a new approach to applied research, one that takes into account internal and external politics, cultural and social realities, and geopolitical and historic context. * When: Timing is everything, especially in the global marketplace. GWEST strives to tailor its analysis to the moment, focusing on temporally sensitive questions and providing real-time insight and updates that incorporate new developments. One way to stay ahead is through application of game theory, considering scenarios before they happen and estimating their effects on the overall picture. GWEST provides a line of products and services, allowing clients to design a package that serves their interests thoroughly and efficiently. Click here to go to our products and services list. * Why: The world is less stable than it was during the Cold War. While tensions ran high in those times, most geopolitical questions could be addressed and understood with a minimal tool set. The nations of the world had mostly taken a side in the great U.S.-USSR standoff, and were therefore under pressures that tended to normalize their behavior. This situation no longer pertains. Recent geopolitical events have forced thoughtful people to face risks that they had been conditioned to ignore. This principle applies to business risks as well as those posed by terrorists; indeed, terrorists themselves create a whole new genre of risks. GWEST is determined to estimate risks that others claim are indefinable. These risks can be assessed; they merely require a different approach, based less on the microscope of actuarial science and more on a panoramic approach. Traditional risk assessment looks at the trees; GWEST specializes in mapping the forest. * How: GWEST has developed contacts in Washington, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Houston, Calgary, Montreal, sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, the Caucusus, former Soviet republics and Western Europe. These contacts provide rapid access to information and research in their respective regions, which GWEST collates, analyzes and packages into usable products for its clients. |
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