Oxford Analytica is an international consulting firm providing strategic analysis of world events. It was founded in 1975 by
David Young, an American employee of the
National Security Council
A national security council (NSC) is usually an executive branch governmental body responsible for coordinating policy on national security issues and advising chief executives on matters related to national security. An NSC is often headed by a n ...
during the Nixon administration.
Clients of Oxford Analytica consist of governments, international institutions, and public sector bodies, as well as financial institutions, corporations, and other private sector organizations.
The company has access to a network of over 1,400 academics and specialists around the world. Its main activities are in the areas of
geopolitics and
macroeconomics, and its principal work comprises advisory work and a daily analysis service known as ''The Oxford Analytica Daily Brief''.
Notable former staff
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Michael Bates – Conservative ex-Minister who at one time ran Oxford Analytica's Consultancy & Research department
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Giulio Regeni
Giulio Regeni (; 15 January 1988 – 25 January 2016) was an Italian University of Cambridge graduate who was abducted and tortured to death in Egypt. Regeni was a PhD student at Girton College, Cambridge, researching Egypt's independent trade ...
– an Italian graduate student kidnapped, tortured and killed in Egypt in 2016 who briefly worked at Oxford Analytica as a research assistant in 2014
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Ronald A. Marks
Ronald Anthony Marks FRSA is a former senior Central Intelligence Agency official and Capitol Hill Staffer. He is currently Chairman and CEO of ZPN Cyber and National Security Strategies and an academic focused on Cyber and Intelligence policy is ...
- former CIA/Capitol Hill official and IT entrepreneur who ran Oxford Analytica's Washington, D.C. office from 2005 to 2010.
References
External links
Company website
Organisations associated with the University of Oxford
Companies based in Oxford
1975 establishments in England
British companies established in 1975
Consulting firms of the United Kingdom
Consulting firms established in 1975
Private intelligence agencies
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