Antonia Colibasanu is a 2024 Templeton Fellow and a Senior Fellow in the Eurasia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. She is also a Senior Geopolitical Analyst and Chief Operating Officer at Geopolitical Futures. In her latest book, 2022 – The Geoeconomic Roundabout, she discusses the concerns that the new global economic war brings forth, as they were in the making well before the war in Ukraine started. She is also a lecturer on international relations at the Romanian National University of Political Studies and Public Administration and an Associate Senior Expert with the New Strategy Center in Bucharest. Prior to joining Geopolitical Futures in 2016 as a Senior Analyst, Dr. Colibasanu spent more than 10 years with Stratfor in various positions, including as a partner for Europe and vice president for international marketing. She is a trainer on geopolitics for the European Affairs program at the Romanian European Institute. Among other academic credentials, she holds a doctorate in international business and economics from Bucharest’s Academy of Economic Studies, where her thesis focused on country risk analysis and investment decision-making processes within transnational companies.