Unlocking Value in Geopolitical Change

Expert-Led Advice

Gatehouse combines in-house strategic expertise with the perspectives of its advisory network of 1,500+ issue and market experts, giving us a truly global scope.

Geostrategic Insight

Few can distinguish the essential insight from what is mere trivia. Our clients hear exactly what they Need to Know, from the experts they Need to Know, the moment they Need to Know it.

Value-Generating

We are specialists at interpreting the geopolitical inputs that are performance-critical for our clients and working with them to fine-tune effective responses.

Who We Are

Gatehouse is a boutique geostrategy consultancy, established in 2010 by Sir Jeremy Greenstock, Sir David Manning and Nick Greenstock.

What We Do

In a complex world, we help our clients to interpret geopolitical developments and then advise them on their tactical decision-making and strategic positioning.

The Gatehouse Network

For more than a decade, Gatehouse has developed a remarkable network of more than 1,500 geopolitical specialists, providing our clients with unique perspectives and insights to inform and shape their geostrategy.

Major Strategic Decision Support

Session on Russia-Ukraine Divestment

Operationalise Geostrategy

Client: FTSE20 Company

Challenge: In January 2022 the client turned to Gatehouse to consider the likelihood of a Russian invasion of Ukraine.

How Gatehouse Helped: Delivered a Geostrategy Board delivered to the client’s Government Affairs Chief, consulting four Network experts, including former Russian Military Intelligence officials, former Polish and Ukrainian Cabinet Ministers and a former White House Lead Sanctions Coordinator.

Outcome: The client paid out a £250m dividend from its Russian business two weeks before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine – avoiding the risk of its in-country assets being seized or frozen.

Location Screening

Automotive Manufacturing Footprint Expansion

Operationalise Geostrategy

Client: US-based Automotive Supplier

Challenge: The client needed to diversify their manufacturing operations, and turned to Gatehouse to screen potential locations for their expansion.

How Gatehouse Helped: Gatehouse delivered Geopolitical Screening Reports for eight potential expansion locations to cover 1) political outlook, 2) governance factors and 3) security outlook to the client COO, drawing on input from five Network experts including a former Mexican Ambassador to the United States.

Outcome: Client identified the two ideal manufacturing locations, removed three of five options due to geopolitical cost and disruption.

Exposure Review

Sub-Saharan Africa Investment

Maintain Insight and Advantage

Client: Development Finance Multilateral

Challenge: The client turned to Gatehouse to analyse the risk of coup contagion in current and future investment locations in the Sahel and West Africa, focused on Burkina Faso, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Mali, Senegal and Sierra Leone.

How Gatehouse Helped: We consulted sixteen Gatehouse Network members including former Foreign and Energy Ministers of West African states and former US Intelligence Africa Lead.

Delivered strategic recommendations to the client’s Chief Risk Officer assessing each focus market’s coup vulnerability, security outlook and implications for business.

Outcome: CRO directed in-country teams for Gatehouse-identified ‘at risk’ markets to do a full exposure review.

Competence Review

Emerging Risk Monitoring Framework

Build Competence

Client: FTSE100 financial services

Challenge: The client turned to Gatehouse to enhance its internal capacity to assess geopolitical risk.

How Gatehouse Helped: We designed a framework for monitoring and public reporting of emerging risks, drawing on our internally developed tools and the Gatehouse team’s decades of public and private sector experience. Delivered to the client’s Board and Chief Risk Officer.

Outcome: Geopolitical input is now embedded in the client’s internal decision-making framework.