Globalization | Corporate Culture | Security | Strategic Planning John Sitilides is a corporate management advisor specializing in international business strategies, geopolitical risk management, and government and media relations. He serves as chairman, board of advisors, of the Woodrow Wilson Center Southeast Europe Project, launched in January 2005 to support scholarly research and informed debate on U.S. interests in southeastern Europe and adjacent regions. He is also on the board of directors of BioVest International, Inc, a manufacturer of individualized cancer immunotherapies. Selected by the Department of State under its U.S. Speaker Specialist program to promote public diplomacy and communicate American domestic and foreign policies before European Union audiences, Mr. Sitilides has twice been formally recognized by the Department of State for his expertise on global affairs. In September 2003, he was appointed to the Department of Commerce Joint Science and Technology Cooperation Advisory Council. John Sitilides served as executive director of the Western Policy Center, a Washington, D.C. international relations organization conducting analysis of U.S. foreign and security policies, which he merged with the Wilson Center in December 2004. He founded the organization in 1998 and built it into one of Washington’s preeminent institutions, directing all aspects of strategic planning, policy analysis, government, corporate and media relations, financial management, public diplomacy, and coalition building. A regular speaker at the Pentagon’s National Defense University, the Foreign Service Institute, and the National Foreign Affairs Training Center, Mr. Sitilides has guest lectured or presented papers on regional and global issues at Oxford and Yale Universities, Johns Hopkins University (Italy), the University of Texas School of Law, and other leading institutions. A member of the National Speakers Association and frequent media commentator, John Sitilides has been interviewed by CNN, CNN International, NPR, BBC News, Voice of America, syndicated radio networks, and other U.S. and international broadcast media. The Washington Post, The Washington Times, The Sacramento Bee, and other U.S. newspapers have published his op-eds, and John Sitilides has been quoted and referenced by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Weekly Standard, The International Herald Tribune, and other print media. Mr. Sitilides serves on the board of trustees of Leadership 100, a national Orthodox Christian endowment fund, and is a member of the Wilson Council (Woodrow Wilson Center private-sector advisory group), the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies, the World Affairs Council of Washington, D.C., and the Columbia University Club. From 1993 to 1997, John Sitilides was a government relations strategist in Sacramento, California. Prior to then, he was an advisor to U.S. Senator Alfonse M. D’Amato (R-NY), and was communications manager on the Senator’s successful 1992 re-election campaign. In 1988, he managed the successful election campaign of New York State Senator Serphin Maltese. John Sitilides received his Master’s Degree in International Affairs at the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs, with specialization in International Security Policy, International Political Economy, and Western European Affairs, and his Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science from Queens.
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