About the Role
TBI’s Geopolitics Team provides senior political and corporate leaders with distinctive, decision-relevant insight on the geopolitical forces shaping their priorities. The team briefs Tony Blair, senior TBI leadership, government principals and C-suite clients, connecting political developments to their second- and third-order implications for strategy, policy, markets, investment, operations and risk. The Senior Analyst will lead TBI’s coverage of the Americas, with a particular focus on the U.S. and Latin America, including Brazil, Argentina and Colombia.
Responsibilities
- Brief Tony Blair, senior TBI leadership, public-sector principals and corporate clients on geopolitical developments across the Americas, with clear implications for decisions and risk exposure.
- Produce high-quality intelligence briefings, written analysis, data-led insights and client-ready deliverables on the U.S., Latin America and wider Americas dynamics.
- Identify second- and third-order implications of political, security, trade, sanctions, technology, election and foreign-policy developments for governments and businesses.
- Develop distinctive insights for corporate clients on how geopolitical risks affect strategy, supply chains, market exposure, investment decisions, regulation and operations.
- Draw on TBI’s internal capabilities and external expert networks to build robust perspectives, test assumptions and identify emerging risks and opportunities.
- Use quantitative and qualitative methods, including data visualisation, forecasting, scenario analysis, market data analysis, Excel and AI tools, to strengthen geopolitical analysis.
- Represent TBI in client briefings, workshops, conferences and external engagements, including through some travel.
- Support the growth of TBI’s geopolitics offer by helping shape new products, client propositions and analytical methods.
Requirements
- Between 5-7 years’ relevant professional experience
- Advanced degree in a relevant field, including international affairs, economics, political science or similar, or equivalent practical experience.
- Strong expertise in the Americas, with a clear spike in U.S. foreign policy and strong working knowledge of political and economic dynamics in Latin America.
- Demonstrated ability to produce sharp, senior-facing intelligence briefings as confidently as they conduct quantitative analysis.
- Experience piecing together information from open sources, expert conversations, data, market indicators and institutional networks to generate original insight.
- Strong networks across foreign policy, diplomatic, business and expert communities relevant to the Americas.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to brief senior public principals and C-suite clients with clarity, judgement and confidence.
- Strong analytical capability across political risk, foreign policy, elections, trade and industrial policy, sanctions, technology, security and market impacts.
- Experience using data visualisation, forecasting, scenario analysis, market data and Excel to support analysis.
- An entrepreneurial, intellectually curious and self-starting approach, with the judgement to operate in ambiguous environments.
- Strong relationship-building skills and the ability to work across TBI to access internal and external expertise.
- Familiarity with AI tools and an interest in applying them responsibly to improve analytical quality and productivity.
- Exposure to client business development
- Additional areas of demonstrated thematic interest, including technology, trade, energy and security.
- Fluency in Spanish and/or Portuguese is highly desirable.
Skills
- Geopolitical risk
- Corporate intelligence
- Political advisory
- Foreign service
- Intelligence
- Consulting
- Government
- Think tanks
- Foreign policy
- U.S. foreign policy
- Latin America political and economic dynamics
- Quantitative analysis
- Open source intelligence
- Expert conversations
- Market indicators
- Institutional networks
- Data visualisation
- Forecasting
- Scenario analysis
- Market data analysis
- Excel
- AI tools
- Python
- Spanish
- Portuguese
Location
- Global
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 5-7 years relevant professional experience
Education Level
- Advanced degree in international affairs, economics, political science or similar, or equivalent practical experience.
About the Company
- We work with political leaders around the world to drive change.
- We help governments turn bold ideas into reality so they can deliver for their people.
- We do it by advising on strategy, policy and delivery, unlocking the power of technology across all three.
- We do it to build more open, inclusive and prosperous countries for people everywhere.
- We are a global team of over 800 changemakers, operating in more than 40 countries, across five continents.
- We are political strategists, policy experts, delivery practitioners, technology specialists and more.
- We speak more than 45 languages.
- We are working on over 100 projects, tackling some of the world’s biggest challenges.
- We’re all here at TBI to make a difference.
- In a world of ever more complex challenges, we believe diversity of background and perspective is a strength.
- We pride ourselves on a culture that values and nurtures difference.
- We are dedicated to unlocking potential, not only for the countries we work in but also for each of our team members.
- No matter where you’re from or who you are, if you’re passionate about the transformative power of progressive politics, we invite you to build a better future with us.
