Standard Compass is run by researchers, economists, policy experts, technology specialists, and former practitioners from government, industry, and defense. They work in four research teams, each responsible for a domain where political and economic direction is determined.
Geopolitics Team
Our geopolitics team tracks shifts in power, alliance dynamics, and political change across the world's major regions. The team produces our geopolitical risk assessments, early warning analyses, and scenario work for major decisions.
Research focus: major power relations, regional conflicts, elections and political transitions, state behavior.
Trade Policy Team
Our trade policy team monitors the rules and politics of the global trading system, from tariffs and export controls to industrial policy and supply chain strategy, and translates all of it into practical implications for the organizations we advise.
Research focus: trade negotiations, export controls and sanctions, industrial and subsidy policy, supply chains.
Emerging Technology Team
Our emerging technology team studies where technology will create advantage and where policy will determine the winners, from artificial intelligence and semiconductors to the energy technologies and institutional frameworks that govern them.
Research focus: artificial intelligence, semiconductors, energy technology, digital standards, technology policy.
Security & Defense Team
Our security and defense team analyzes capabilities, procurement, and the defense industrial base. It supports clients that operate in, or are exposed to, an expanding security sector.
Research focus: defense modernization, procurement and budgets, the defense industrial base, dual use technology.