Neil Barnett

Neil Barnett is CEO of Istok Associates Limited, a London-based intelligence and investigations consultancy focused on Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa. 

Previously, he was a journalist in the same regions for 13 years and wrote for The Telegraph, The Spectator and Janes Information Services. He covered the war in Iraq, the Ukrainian Orange Revolution, the eastern expansion of NATO and the EU in the 2000s and Balkan organised crime. 

Neil specialises in how authoritarian states undermine democracies and, in particular, he has extensive expertise in the financial and informational networks that underpin foreign interference operations.