Tony Blair

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Ex-DGSE goes to Orasio, Alix Partners in Indonesia, strategic advisory market moves

Appointments, financial results, new contracts: every Wednesday, we report on events both big and small that matter in the global corporate intelligence community.

ParisEx-DGSE joins French start-up Orasio

JakartaNadiem Makarim's allies hire AlixPartners

London / KyivNew entrants to the strategic advisory market

Gaza strip, Qatar, United States
Fixer-diplomat Ali al-Thawadi comes out from the shadows

Long a hidden figure, the fixer-cum-securocrat's work on the Gaza ceasefire has forced him into the spotlight, with Doha last month naming him a minister for strategic affairs.

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Forward in London, New French legal defence association, Hakluyt, Simon Mann

Appointments, financial results, new contracts: every Wednesday, we report on events big and small that matter in the global corporate intelligence community.

LondonForward Global recruits more Tory consultants

ParisFive lawyers defence-focussed legal association

LondonHakluyt reshuffles its board

LondonDeath of Simon Mann, forerunner of armed services to states

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Milton Advisers, JS Held in Memphis, CNC Intelligence, Argyll Strategy

Appointments, financial results, new contracts: every Wednesday, we report on events big and small that matter in the global corporate intelligence community.

LondonLord investigator Ross Kempsell steps up PR advisory roles

MemphisTransport authority employs JS Held

WashingtonCNC Intelligence opens UK subsidiary

LondonArgyll Strategy takes its pick of CT Group crop

Spotlight | United Kingdom
Inside Orbis, part 2: former MI6 employee's intelligence firm also probed Lords' Russia links

Investigating links with Russia's political and security apparatus is an integral part of Orbis's activities. But in addition to the now famous ‘Steele dossier' against Donald Trump, the firm also investigated big names close to ‘Londongrad' in the British parliament's upper house.

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Ex-MI5 boss opens firm, CIA vet at Forward, GardaWorld, John Reid Advisory

Appointments, financial results, new contracts: every Wednesday, we report on events big and small that matter in the global corporate intelligence community.

LondonFormer MI5 boss opens own firm at last

WashingtonEx-CIA officer joins Forward Risk and Intelligence

Tripoli/LondonGardaWorld keeps FCDO contract despite mishaps in Libya

LondonEx-interior minister under Blair offers his expertise to Aeralis

United Kingdom
The new Lords of intelligence, part 2: former Johnson adviser Ross Kempsell taps into Hawthorn Advisors' networks

The youngest male member of the House of Lords is heading up new investigative firms and building up his networks with the veterans of reputation management.

United States
Cohen Group works to boost US defence groups in Ukraine

With the official arrival of NATO's ex-deputy commander as an adviser, the Cohen Group, led by former US defence secretary William Cohen, is seeking to step-up support for its clients, the major US defence groups, for their contracts in Ukraine financed by NATO states.

United Kingdom
British Foreign Affairs Committee hears from MENA experts in new inquiry

The UK's Foreign Affairs Committee is hearing from researchers and former diplomats as part of its new inquiry into the UK's engagement with the Middle East and North Africa.