Jake Sotiriadis is Director of the Center for Futures Intelligence at the National Intelligence University (NIU) in Washington, DC. He serves on the research faculty and teaches courses on international relations, intelligence tradecraft, and strategic foresight. Jake is a serial "intrapreneur" in the Department of Defense and the US Intelligence Community where he has built futures-oriented organizations from the ground up, including the Air Force’s Strategic Foresight Team and NIU’s Research Center for Futures Intelligence. He is also an advisor to the State Department and teaches courses on geopolitics at the Foreign Service Institute. A career Air Force intelligence officer, he has held strategy and policy portfolios at the Pentagon, completed two deployments to the Middle East, as well as assignments at the National Security Agency, Pacific Command, US Embassy Berlin, and as the US Air Force’s senior futurist.

He holds a Ph.D. in political science and geopolitical futures from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, a Master of Arts in international affairs from the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy at Tufts University, a Master of Philosophy in military strategy from the US Air Force’s School of Advanced Air & Space Studies, and a Bachelor of Arts in international studies from Norwich University. His forthcoming book, “The Revenge of Ideology: How Ideas Become Material in the Struggle for Global Order,” will be released in the Fall of 2023 by the National Intelligence Press.