R.P. Eddy

R.P. is the CEO of Ergo, a consulting, forecasting, and intelligence firm serving premier businesses, investors, and governments worldwide. Ergo equips leaders with the foresight to navigate the ‘Geopolitical-Technological Supercycle,’ stay ahead of the headlines, and capture market opportunities. Co-author of bestselling and award-winning, "Warnings: Finding Cassandras to Stop Catastrophes," (HarperCollins). Heralded for offering a novel forecasting technique (“The Cassandra Coefficient”) and warning of a coming pandemic - years before COVID-19. Foreign Policy named Eddy one of America's 100 "most authoritative terrorism and national security experts." Harvard Business Review called his innovations "a radical new model." Fox Business: "America's top intelligence expert." CBS, PBS, CNN, New York Times, Fox, and others cite him as an authority on international affairs and corporate risk.

Served in National Security positions in the US Federal Government: Director at White House National Security Council, US Diplomat - Senior Executive Service. Served as UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's Senior Policy Officer. Executive at the Gerson Lehrman Group and The Monitor Company. In the wake of 9/11, founded the Center for Policing Terrorism which served as the think tank for the LAPD and the NYPD. Testified to the U.S. Congress to support local police via his “First Preventers Theory” of counterterrorism. World Economic Forum "Global Leader for Tomorrow," Life Member Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission. Chair: The Cassandra Foundation. Chair: Los Angeles Counterterrorism Committee. Producer of four Grammy-winning albums. Dad. Treehouse builder.