John Sitilides

John Sitilides has specialized in federal strategies, international affairs and media relations in Washington, D.C., California and New York for more than two decades. As Principal of Trilogy Advisors [http://www.trilogyadvisors.net/] , a government relations company, he has leveraged his professional resources in the corporate and government sectors to craft, implement, and oversee positioning strategies on land development, wetland regulation, water infrastructure and other national issues to create maximum value for private clients and the public interest. [ [http://www.trilogyadvisors.net/ Trilogy Advisors: Strategic Planning Services in Government Affairs, Media Relations, Corporate Communications for U.S. and International Business Executives and Political Leaders ] ]

Education

Sitilides received his Master’s Degree in International Affairs at the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs in 1986, with specialization in International Security Policy and Western European Affairs, and his Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science from Queens College in 1983.

Career

Sitilides began his career as a communications aide to U.S. Senator Alfonse D’Amato (R-NY) from 1985 to 1993, and on the senator’s two successful re-election campaigns. He was a lobbyist and government affairs strategist based in Sacramento, CA, specializing in federal environmental issues from 1993 to 1997, and a foreign policy advisor to the Dole/Kemp 1996 presidential campaign. In 1998, he launched the Western Policy Center, a respected Washington, D.C. international relations organization. After seven years as director, he successfully negotiated its merger with the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars to form the Southeast Europe Project, and currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Advisors. [ [http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?topic_id=109941&fuseaction=topics.item&news_id=114187 Western Policy Center Merges with Woodrow Wilson Center ] ]

Sitilides also serves on the Wilson Council, the center’s private sector advisory board; on the Board of Directors of Biovest [http://www.biovest.com] , a biopharmaceutical company; on the Board of Trustees of Leadership 100 [http://www.l100.org] , a national Greek Orthodox endowment, as Adjunct Professor at the Center for Advanced Defense Studies [ [http://www.c4ads.org/people/people/john.sitilides?PHPSESSID=a1760e26162e0b83c5c86aea9ebb3011 John Sitilides | Center for Advanced Defense Studies ] ] , a national security group; and on the Commerce Department’s U.S.-Greece Initiative for Technology Cooperation in the Balkans. Twice formally recognized by the State Department for international affairs expertise, Sitilides has testified before Congress on U.S.-European relations and currently manages the State Department’s training programs for U.S. diplomats stationed in Greece and Cyprus.

A frequent media commentator on global affairs and current events, Sitilides has been interviewed or featured in leading U.S., European and other international broadcast and print media including: CNN, CNN International, MSNBC, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, The Wall Street Journal, International Herald Tribune, The Weekly Standard, Associated Press, Bloomberg News, Kiplinger Business Forecasts, BBC News, Asia Times, National Public Radio (NPR), Voice of America, and Radio Free Europe. He has delivered geopolitical analysis presentations at the Pentagon’s National Defense University, the U.S. Army Strategic Command and the U.S. Joint Forces Command, as well as at Oxford University, Yale University, Johns Hopkins University, and other distinguished academic institutions. He is also a member of the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies.

elected Publications

Washington Times, Soner Cagaptay and John Sitilides: " Quiet Bridge-Building", January 26, 2008. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC06.php?CID=1125
Turkish Policy Quarterly, John Sitilides: "The Road Through Brussels: The U.S.-Turkey Agenda", Summer 2005. http://www.turkishpolicy.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=265&Itemid=199
Washington Times, John Sitilides: "Opportunity for NATO in Kosovo?"(op-ed), April 2, 1999. http://www.hri.org/forum/intpol/sitil15.html
Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Europe of the Committee on International Relations, "U.S. Policy in the Eastern Mediterranean: Managing the Greece, Turkey, Cyprus Triangle." http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/intlrel/hfa73068.000/hfa73068_0.htm

ee also

Associated Press, Elena Becatorose: "Christofias wins Cyprus presidency, urges solution to island's division", February 24, 2008. http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2008/02/25/news/politics/17_39_172_24_08.txt
International Herald Tribune, Menelaos Hadjicostis: "Cyprus could become EU rarity by electing communist-rooted leader on Sunday", February 23, 2008. http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/02/23/news/Cyprus-Communist-President.php

References

http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?topic_id=109941&fuseaction=topics.profile&person_id=114770
http://www.speakers-network.com/speakers/speaker.asp?id=483
http://www.trilogyadvisors.net/
http://www.maknews.com/html/articles/schneider/schneider_stilides.html