# GeoRisk Solutions

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*The political risk consultancy John Kiriakou founded with the dean of the University of Salamanca's intelligence studies programme, staffed with academics and a former assistant secretary of state, with offices in Salamanca and Washington and a stated business of selling cost-effective country and regional risk analysis to banks, funds and companies.*

- **Founders:** John Kiriakou and the dean of the University of Salamanca intelligence studies programme
- **Business:** Political risk analysis for companies, banks and funds
- **Offices:** Salamanca and Washington, D.C.
- **Age at time of description:** Under one year; first contract completed

GeoRisk Solutions is the consulting firm John Kiriakou co-founded with the dean of the graduate intelligence studies programme at the University of Salamanca, where Kiriakou [teaches](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/the-university-of-salamanca-professorship).

## Formation

Kiriakou says he and the dean, who are good friends, decided to try their hand at establishing a consulting firm.[1] They brought in the American privacy researcher Sean O'Brien, a professor at Yale, along with a professor from Chile, one from the United States, and a former assistant secretary of state who Kiriakou noted had joined the firm that same day.[2]

## What the firm sells

The stated business is to provide cost-effective political risk analysis to companies, firms, banks, mutual funds — in Kiriakou's phrase, everybody that needs a deep view of what is happening either around the world or very specifically about a certain area.[2]

Kiriakou reported that the venture was going well so far. It had been established only within the past year, had just completed its first contract, was moving quickly into a second, and was expanding, with offices both in Salamanca and in Washington, D.C.[2][3] Asked to name it, he initially could not recall having given the name and had to check with O'Brien before confirming it as GeoRisk Solutions.[3][4]

The firm sits alongside Kiriakou's other post-agency work with O'Brien, including the seminars on surveillance and anti-surveillance the two were then advertising.[4]

## See also

- [The University of Salamanca professorship](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/the-university-of-salamanca-professorship)
- [Deloitte Consulting Career](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/deloitte-consulting-career)
- [Consulting for royal families](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/consulting-for-royal-families)

## Sources

1. Ask Ex-CIA Agent and Whistleblower John Kiriakou Anything (2025-10-16), at 21:03. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auddbc2c676&t=1263s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2025-10-16-seymizzle-podcast-ask-ex-cia-agent-and-whistleblower-john-kiria/
2. Ask Ex-CIA Agent and Whistleblower John Kiriakou Anything (2025-10-16), at 21:37. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auddbc2c676&t=1297s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2025-10-16-seymizzle-podcast-ask-ex-cia-agent-and-whistleblower-john-kiria/
3. Ask Ex-CIA Agent and Whistleblower John Kiriakou Anything (2025-10-16), at 22:13. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auddbc2c676&t=1333s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2025-10-16-seymizzle-podcast-ask-ex-cia-agent-and-whistleblower-john-kiria/
4. Ask Ex-CIA Agent and Whistleblower John Kiriakou Anything (2025-10-16), at 22:43. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auddbc2c676&t=1363s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2025-10-16-seymizzle-podcast-ask-ex-cia-agent-and-whistleblower-john-kiria/

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