R.P. Eddy
R.P. Eddy is the Founder and CEO of Ergo, one of the world's leading intelligence and advisory firms. Eddy is a globally recognized national security and intelligence expert that advises intelligence agencies, major corporations and investors. Prior to entering the private sector, he had a multi-decade career in national security, including serving as Director at The White House National Security Council and a Senior US and UN Diplomat. He also served as a Managing Director at the Gerson Lehrman Group and a Team Leader at Monitor Group. Eddy is the Founder of the Center for Policing Terrorism, which advised NYPD and LAPD counterterrorism after 9/11.
R.P. Eddy Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Founder, Chairman, and CEO
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Associate at the John F. Kennedy School
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Senior Fellow
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Senior Advisor
Academic History
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B.S., Neuroscience
CURRENT AFFILIATIONS
Board Member, Middle East Institute
Board Member, Global Guardian
Strategic Advisor, Lytical Ventures
Advisor, Blackbird.AI
Ergo equips leaders with the foresight to navigate global economic and political volatility, capture market opportunities, and stay ahead of the headlines.
Harvard Business Review praised Ergo as “breaking from industry orthodoxy with a radically new model.”
He also chairs Ergo Investment Partners, and Four Rivers, a Burma-focused holding company.
GOVERNMENT CAREER
Eddy served as a Director at the White House National Security Council, where he led the process to build the first White House policy on pandemic diseases.
He was Chief of Staff to US Ambassador to the UN Richard Holbrooke and Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Energy.
He was also a Senior Policy Officer to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, where he was an architect of the Global Fund to Prevent AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, which has since saved over 20 million lives.
He was a member of the State Department Senior Executive Service and achieved the diplomatic rank of Minister-Counselor.
EARLY CAREER
Eddy has a unique blend of expertise across national security, global investment and enterprise strategy.
He built and ran a division of Gerson Lehrman Group to help corporates and institutional investors make decisions on international risk, global macro issues, and complex studies.
He also served as the Co-Chairman of the Mayor of Los Angeles’ Advisory Board on Counterterrorism.
He has been a Senior Fellow or associate at Harvard University, the Madison Policy Forum, and the Manhattan Institute.
RECOGNITIONS
World Economic Forum's Global Leader for Tomorrow
Foreign Policy's 100 Most Esteemed Terrorism and National Security Experts
MEDIA & PUBLICATIONS
Eddy has testified in front of the US Congress, regularly appears on global news stations and has been a commentator on PBS: Charlie Rose, Fox News, CBS, CNN, NPR, and many others.
His writing has been published in the Wall Street Journal, the Times of London and other outlets.
He is also a widely-published author and speaker on national security, forecasting, decision-making, geopolitics, and leadership.
He has appeared as a guest on Real Vision.