Dr. John B. Sheldon is the Chairman and President of ThorGroup GmbH, a Swiss geopolitical and technological risk consulting firm. He is based in Abu Dhabi.
Over the past decade or so the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has emerged as one of the savviest and most agile geopolitical actors not only in the Arabian Gulf, but more broadly across Southwestern Asia, the Eastern seaboard of Africa, the Western part of the Indian Ocean, and South Asia.
