Meet Our Team

Expertise rooted in experience.

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    Kevin G. Nealer

    Principal

    Kevin G. Nealer provides strategic risk advisory services and direct investment support to clients, specializing in financial services and trade policy issues for emerging markets, with emphasis on China and Southeast Asia.

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    Erik D.K. Melby

    Principal

    Eric D. K. Melby has extensive experience in telecommunications, energy and investment support. He also advises clients on market entry and geopolitical risk. Mr. Melby’s primary regions of focus are the Middle East and Asia.

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  • Filipa Jorge

    Principal

    Filipa Jorge provides strategic risk advisory services and investment support to clients and focuses primarily on trade, Emerging Markets, and Europe. She has extensive experience in political risk analysis, management consulting, and international development

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  • Fritz G. Lodge

    Principal

    Fritz Lodge provides analysis, research, and strategic risk advisory services for corporate clients and financial institutions. He brings extensive expertise in the Middle East, Russia, sanctions policy, and national security.

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    Franklin C. Miller

    Principal

    Franklin C. Miller provides clients both strategic and tactical advice on defense, national security, foreign affairs, and intelligence policy. He is an internationally recognized expert on nonproliferation, nuclear deterrence and arms control policy, and defense.

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    Robert Goldberg

    Principal

    Robert Goldberg provides strategic advice, business solutions and informed analysis on the Asia-Pacific region, with a focus on China and Northeast Asia as well as regional security and economic institutions.

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    Thomas D. Gallagher

    Principal

    Thomas D. Gallagher provides strategic and financial advisory services to clients, specializing in U.S. monetary, fiscal, and currency policies. Prior to joining The Scowcroft Group, Mr. Gallagher was a Senior Managing Director of the International Strategy and Investment Group, Inc. (ISI), a Wall Street research firm.

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  • David M. Sloan

    Principal

    David M. Sloan has over 25 years of experience helping US, European, and Japanese clients address operational challenges and expand their business in South Asia, particularly India. He advises global companies and investors on the region’s political and commercial risk across various sectors, such as energy and financial services.

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  • Jennifer Lee

    Senior Associate

    Jennifer Lee provides analysis to corporate clients and financial institutions, covering East Asia, the Americas, tariffs, tech (e.g., AI), resources and the energy transition (e.g., critical minerals), and export controls.

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Senior Advisors

Partnerships built on value.

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    Frank Kelly

    A Senior Advisor to The Scowcroft Group, Frank is the Founder and Managing Partner of Fulcrum Macro Advisors LLC, a political risk advisory firm based in Washington, DC…

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    Ryan Hass

    A Senior Advisor to the Scowcroft Group, Ryan Hass provides strategic advice to clients on a global set of issues, with a particular focus on Asia and China…

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  • Charlie Cook

    Charlie Cook is widely considered to be one of the nation’s most respected and impartial analyst of American politics, elections and political trends…

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    R. Kirk Sherr

    A Senior Advisor to The Scowcroft Group, R. Kirk Sherr has thirty years of experience in key emerging and frontier energy markets worldwide, including Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, and Iraq…

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    Jeff Lightfoot

    A Senior Advisor to the Scowcroft Group, Jeff Lightfoot has nearly 20 years of experience analyzing European defense, economic and geopolitical trends, with a focus on Central and Eastern Europe…

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    Richard Greco Jr.

    A Senior Advisor to The Scowcroft Group, Richard Greco, Jr. provides strategic advice to clients on mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, and investment strategy…

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