Ian McCredie

Ian McCredie is a former senior British foreign service official. Most recently, he was Head of Corporate Security for Shell International. He now focuses on helping companies navigate the complexities and manage the risk of frontier markets. He is a mathematics graduate and speaks Farsi, French and Danish.

For Vladimir Putin, Survival Is All That Matters

In today’s Russia, there is no grand plan for the restoration of tsarist greatness or even the USSR. Continue Reading

January 05, 2022

What Meghan Markle Failed to Understand About the British Monarchy

When a complete outsider, Meghan Markle, turned up as Prince Harry’s girlfriend, the questions from his relatives were not about color, race or even money. Continue Reading

March 16, 2021

Will Iran Take Over the Ottoman Mantle in the Middle East?

Before Iran attempts to become the Ottoman successor, it is in the interest of all the other countries in the region to reach a general settlement. Continue Reading

February 26, 2021

Iran’s Revenge Against Israel Will Be a Long Game

Tehran will not jeopardize its strategic goals for the short-term satisfaction of a revenge attack for Israel’s assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. Continue Reading

December 04, 2020

US Election 2020: The Fight of the Machines

Instead of machines fighting us, they have devised a way to make us fight each other, and the November election is shaping up to be a key battle. Continue Reading

October 15, 2020

Trump at the UN: A Failure to Lead

The US leadership vacuum is a grave danger to not just Americans, but to us all. Continue Reading

September 28, 2020

Russia’s Denials of Navalny’s Poisoning Fall on Deaf Ears

The West is in disarray about how to respond to Navalny’s poisoning and particularly desperately misses the leadership of the United States. Continue Reading

August 28, 2020