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Dr Milo Jones holds an MA in International Relations (with Distinction) and a PhD in International Relations from the University of Kent (Brussels School of International Studies). He also holds an MBA from London Business School and a BA in Art History from Northwestern University.
He is currently a Visiting Professor at IE business school in Madrid where he teaches “Geopolitics” and “Investing in Emerging Markets” for Masters in Advanced Finance students, and “How to Think Like an Intelligence Analyst” and “Business, Government and Society” (a capstone advanced strategy module), for International MBA students.
In early 2013, Stanford University Press will be publishing ‘Constructing Cassandra: Reframing Intelligence Failure at the CIA, 1947-2001’. This book is based on his PhD dissertation, and is focused on four strategic surprises: the Cuban Missile Crisis, the fall of the Shah of Iran, the collapse of the USSR, and the terrorist attacks of 9/11.
We asked him about his time at BSIS:
“BSIS provided several unique features which made it a fantastic place to do my PhD. First was location: the international mix of people and institutions in Brussels is unmatched anywhere else in Europe. It’s also a great base from which to see other places or to learn a new language.”
“BSIS itself contrasted sharply with other institutions that I considered by insisting on a firm theoretical foundation in the work of both Masters and PhD students. Instead of theory being something to “be got through” before one could “begin work”, clarity of foundational ideas was required at every stage.”
“By avoiding the “vocational school” approach, and by stressing the theoretical and conceptual side of Social Science, BSIS gave me the tools to think about International Relations from many points of view for many years into the future.”
In 2011, Milo was chosen by the US ODNI’s Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity as a participant in their “Forecasting World Events” Project. His research interests are non-predictive strategy, geopolitics, and the “The Great Divergence” (i.e. the economic and technological take-off of Europe that began in the early 19th Century).
Milo is founder of Inveniam Strategy, and Co-Founder and a Managing Director at Insight Advisory Partners. Inveniam Strategy specializes in non-market strategy, geopolitics, and the application of models drawn from the Intelligence Community to an array of business and financial issues; clients include Wal-Mart and Accenture. Insight Advisory Partners is a merchant bank and strategic advisory in Chicago focused on the food sector.
His column appears with a colleague on Forbes.com at http://blogs.forbes.com/silberzahnjones/ and maintains a blog at and http://silberzahnjones.com/