Velina Tchakarova is geopolitical strategist and founder of the geopolitical consulting company FACE. She is also an instructor at the Real-World Risk Institute under the direction of best-selling author Nassim Taleb and a member of the Strategic and Security Policy Advisory Board of the Science Commission at the Austrian Federal Ministry of Defense. She is former director of the Vienna-based Austrian Institute for European and Security Policy (AIES) and a member of the peer board of the Defence Horizon Journal in Austria. Her area of expertise is global system shifts, geopolitics and geostrategy.