Biography
Historian, author and strategic analyst — and onetime industrialist — Gregory R. Copley, 60, has for almost four decades worked at the highest levels with various governments around the world, advising on national security, intelligence, and national management issues.
Privately, Mr Copley has worked at the highest levels with a number of governments in Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific region to establish national capabilities in intelligence and strategic analysis.
In 2001, on a more public note, Gregory Copley was one of the founding directors of Australia’s new grand strategy research organization, the Future Directions Institute (FDI) (originally known as the Centre for International Strategic Analysis: CISA), in Perth, Western Australia. He remains actively involved with FDI, and is currently a Director of the organization and Chairman of its Research Committee.