St. James’s Foreign Policy Group is a geopolitical risk advisory that provides bespoke, strategic solutions for key decision-makers and leading businesses across the world.  

Today’s geopolitical landscape is increasingly complex, deeply divided, and yet profoundly interdependent. Leading thinkers have characterised modern times as an inflection point in history and the dawn of a new epoch. Emerging challenges like global realignments, reorientation of supply chains and technological disruptions are reshaping the world order and making it ever more challenging to navigate. The rise of hybrid warfare and new alliances of hostile actors are presenting unprecedented risks in the 21st century. 

St. James’s Foreign Policy Group was founded in the heart of London’s geopolitical decision-making – St. James’s - in response to these evolving challenges, to help governments and businesses navigate, anticipate and shape the future. 

Leadership 

Founder & CEO, Aliona Hlivco, is a political scientist and a foreign policy expert. With dual master’s degrees in Political Science and Public Administration, Aliona has extensive experience in international affairs, strategic communications, and geopolitics. Her career in Ukraine spanned roles in Ministry of Infrastructure, National Parliament of Ukraine, and one of Ukraine's most influential political parties (2004-2018). She was also elected as a member of Chernivtsi Regional Parliament. Recognised for her work in defending democracy in Ukraine during the Orange Revolution of 2004 and the 2014 Revolution of Dignity, she has received several government awards, including the Order of Merit from Chernivtsi Regional Government.

Since relocating to London in 2018, Aliona has contributed to academia, consulted on political and war risk, and held a managing director role at a leading Westminster foreign policy and national security think tank. She is also a sought-after media voice, regularly featured on BBC, Sky News, Deutsche Welle, Al Jazeera and Monocle, with publications in Foreign Policy, The Telegraph, The Spectator, LBC etc. Aliona has delivered lectures and keynote speeches at global institutions like Harvard University, Georgetown University, NYU, Cambridge University, King’s College London, London Business School, London School of Economics etc.  

Aliona is a regular contributor at Chatham House and an Advisory Board member at the Coalition for Global Prosperity. Her expertise stems from Central & Eastern Europe and expands to transatlanticism, emerging geopolitical dynamics, and novel hybrid warfare threats.