Jake Sotiriadis is a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. He also advises the US State Department, where he trains diplomats in strategic foresight and geopolitical futures at the Foreign Service Institute. 

Sotiriadis is a veteran of the US Air Force with twenty-one years of service. He served as an intelligence officer, founded the Air Force’s Strategic Foresight capability, and was the inaugural director of the Center for Futures Intelligence at the National Intelligence University. He has led forecasting initiatives on geopolitical risk across the defense and intelligence communities and has contributed expert commentary to leading media outlets. He is the author of The Revenge of Ideology: The Hidden Forces Reshaping Global Order (The National Intelligence Press, 2025), and his writing has appeared in Harvard Business Review, California Management Review, The National Interest, and The Diplomat.

He holds a PhD in political science and geopolitical futures, with degrees from the University of Hawaii, the Fletcher School at Tufts University, and the US Air Force’s School of Advanced Air and Space Studies. He speaks Greek and German.