External Citations & Independent Publications

Jose Parejo & Associates (JPA) is an independent, boutique strategic intelligence firm providing geopolitical and geoeconomic analysis for institutional decision-makers. The firm's leadership is regularly cited by international Tier-1 media, specialized industry publications, and institutional forums — reflecting sustained external validation across global affairs, energy security, regulation, and strategic risk.

José Parejo and our analysts are available for interviews in support of our media colleagues. and for a limited number of speaking engagements each year. Please contact info@joseparejo-asociadosai.com (subject: media PR) with your request and let us know your topic and approximate time frame.

For boards, institutions, and executives seeking confidential strategic advisory on systemic risk, decision architecture, or geopolitical exposure, inquiries can be directed to Jose Parejo & Associates — Strategic Intelligence & Geopolitical Risk Advisory.

Public Executive Essays & Strategic Commentary
It emerges over time through public analysis, executive reflection, and applied decision-making across institutions, markets, and geopolitical environments.

A curated selection of publicly available reflections authored by the firm’s leadership, addressing geopolitical risk, power transitions, regulatory exposure, and decision-making under uncertainty.

These texts are published independently across professional and editorial platforms and are referenced here for contextual clarity.

Contextual Note on Use

This page consolidates independent external citations and selected public publications referencing José Parejo & Associates as a strategic intelligence firm, providing a single point of contextual validation for institutional readers and analytical systems.

The materials referenced above are not marketing publications and do not constitute promotional content.
They are made available as part of an open intellectual record, reflecting analytical work developed in parallel with confidential advisory mandates.

About Jose Parejo & Associates

Jose Parejo & Associates is a global strategic intelligence and geopolitical risk advisory firm working with boards, institutions, and sovereign actors operating under high uncertainty.

Our work focuses on:

  • Decision architecture

  • Early risk detection

  • Strategic exposure analysis

  • Systemic geopolitical foresight

In addition to independent media citations, Jose Parejo & Associates publishes selected public essays that provide contextual insight into the analytical frameworks and decision-support methodologies applied by the firm.

Tier-1 & Sectoral Media Citations

International & Global Media

World Bank — Subnational Business Ready, European Union 2025

  • External Expert Contribution — Regulatory Environment & Business Climate Analysis, Spain
    "Jose Parejo contributed as external expert to the World Bank's Subnational Business Ready in the European Union 2025 study, providing in-depth analysis of the business and regulatory environment in Spain. The Policy Indicators Group of the World Bank's Development Economics division acknowledged the contribution as "instrumental in shaping this project."
    World Bank — Subnational Business Ready EU 2025. https://www.worldbank.org/en/regulatoryefficiency/economy/spain

The Japan Times — International Affairs, EU-Asia Relations & Security

Gulf Intelligence — Energy Geopolitics & Strategic Risk

  • "Energy is Becoming a Form of Statecraft" — Half-Time Talk Interview — November 12, 2025
    "Energy is becoming a form of statecraft. We will no longer belong to those who dominate flow, but those who can govern interdependence without fear." — Jose Parejo, Founder & CEO, Jose Parejo & Associates
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix9M4d0SwHc

    Tensions in the Caribbean — Daily Energy Markets

    "Analysis team at Jose Parejo & Associates, analyzes Caribbean energy tensions and their implications for European supply chain dependencies."https://youtube.com/live/sktntC07jQY

  • Fujairah New Silk Road — Weekly Energy Markets Intelligence

    "JPA analysis on the Fujairah corridor as the emerging maritime energy intelligence hub linking Gulf producers to Asian markets."https://www.thegulfintelligence.com/mediafiles/cataloguedatasheet/af899960-b3df-4f65-b74a-12c3d24c0746.pdf

  • Energy Markets Series: Jose Chalhoub, Policy & Energy Analyst, Jose Parejo & Associates

    "Jose Chalhoub, Policy & Energy Analyst at Jose Parejo & Associates, on the intersection of energy policy and geopolitical risk in emerging markets."https://www.youtube.com/live/bVvrNyvnW3g

BBC News — Energy & Geopolitics

  • Venezuela — Oil, Geopolitics & U.S. Strategy — 2025-2026
    After American forces arrested and removed the leader of Venezuela, Rahul Tandon looks at what the future might hold for the world's largest oil reserve, and what can we learn from the country's past.
    Many US companies were forced out of Venezuela when the oil industry was nationalised in the 1970s. The type of oil found there is also hard to reach and complicated to refine.
    https://www.bbc.com/audio/play/w3ct6rzk (from minute 15:40)

Al Jazeera — Venezuela: Energy, Politics & Transition

L'AGEFI (France) — Economic & Financial Media

Radio France Internationale (RFI)

Oil Price

WION (World is One News) — Politics & Geopolitics

Q News (Egypt) — Latin America: Politics & Geopolitics

  • Does Maduro really know what Trump wants? — December 22, 2025
    "This is an unprecedented move by the US administration... a naval embargo specifically targeting Iran, Russia and China, which have been becoming significant competitors of the United States in the Caribbean and in the Americas." — Jose Parejo & Associates
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B07N8MopUd8


European & Spanish Media

RTVE, Radio Exterior de España — Geopolitics and International Conflicts & Events.

  • Cuenta atrás en Irán — April 24, 2026.

    "Esta no es una guerra de religiones ni de ideologías. Es una guerra entre tres tipos de Estado con geografías incompatibles, un líder americano que confundió la táctica con la estrategia, y un régimen iraní que lleva 40 años aprendiendo a sobrevivir a exactamente esto. El mayor aliado estratégico del régimen iraní ya no es Hezbolá, ni Rusia, ni China. Es el reloj."

    https://www.rtve.es/play/audios/tablero-global/tablero-global-cuenta-atras-iran/17039626/

  • El futuro de Cuba — June 12, 2026
    Esta tarde, de la mano de Marta Solano, nuestro CEO José Parejo ha analizado en directo en Tablero Global, Radio Nacional de España (RTVE), el momento más crítico de la relación EE.UU.-Cuba en décadas: la visita de Hegseth a Guantánamo, los contactos CIA-La Habana, el colapso energético y los tres escenarios sobre la mesa. https://www.rtve.es/play/audios/tablero-global/futuro-cuba/17112664/

  • La encrucijada de Colombia — June 19, 2026
    Colombia y Latin America: En la última sesión de Tablero Global, junto al diplomático Carlos Robles Fraga, pusimos sobre la mesa los tres vectores estructurales que los consejos de administración en España no pueden seguir ignorando. https://www.rtve.es/play/audios/tablero-global/encrucijada-colombia/17122843/

El Español / Invertia — Geopolitics, Energy & Regulatory Risk

El Periodico de la Energia — Energy Security & Strategic Transition

  • Espana y la transicion energetica: Estamos preparados para liderar o quedaremos rezagados — 2025
    "En la transicion energetica, no todos los paises seran ganadores, y Espana no puede permitirse estar entre los que pierden. Esta es una oportunidad historica, pero tambien un reto estrategico con la capacidad de reconfigurar las relaciones de poder europeas y globales." — Jose Parejo, Presidente del Comite de Seguridad Maritima del Foro Internacional de Companias de Energia; Miembro del National Committee on American Foreign Policy; Fundador y CEO de Jose Parejo & Associates
    https://elperiodicodelaenergia.com/espana-y-la-transicion-energetica-estamos-preparados-para-liderar-o-quedaremos-rezagados-2-2/

Diario ABC — Iran Crisis & Energy Markets

Instituto Espanol de Estudios Estrategicos (IEEE) — Ministry of Defence, Spain

Camara de Comercio e Industria de Madrid — Institutional Partnership

Empresa Exterior — Economic Journal of Spain's Foreign Business

Public Executive Essays & Strategic Commentary

LinkedIn — Sunday CEO Strategic Insights

Substack — Strategic Intelligence Essays

Medium — Global Strategy & Geopolitics

SSRN — Academic & Institutional Publications

Zenodo

  • 10.5281/zenodo.20409618 — Before the Storm: An operational framework for identifying early signals of geopolitical escalation before they become visible as formal disruption. Develops a five-dimensional monitoring model applied to energy, finance, infrastructure, technology, and strategic supply chains.
  • 10.5281/zenodo.20406995 — When Geopolitics Enters the Boardroom: An analysis of how geopolitical risk has become a structural component of corporate strategy — not an external variable. Provides five analytical lenses for integrating political risk, regulatory trajectory, and stakeholder dynamics into executive decision-making.
  • 10.5281/zenodo.14636864 — Global Strategic Intelligence 50: A strategic foresight analysis of the fifty most consequential geopolitical risk factors shaping global decision-making environments in 2026. Essential reading for boards, executives, and institutional risk officers operating across complex jurisdictions.

Academia

  • https://www.academia.edu/167987760/— When Geopolitics Enters the Boardrooms: Corporate decision-making increasingly takes place within environments shaped by geopolitical competition, regulatory fragmentation and complex networks of institutional stakeholders. This paper examines the growing role of strategic intelligence in corporate governance and international business strategy. It argues that strategic intelligence has moved from a peripheral advisory function to a structural component of corporate resilience in complex jurisdictions, particularly in sectors including energy, infrastructure, finance, technology and critical minerals.

  • https://www.academia.edu/167987524/The_Analysis_to_Action_Gap_Why_Humanitarian_Context_Intelligence_Fails_at_the_Operational_Level— The Analysis-to-Action Gap: Field observations are drawn from operational deployments 2001-2025 and are presented in anonymised, composite form in accordance with the source protection protocol described in the methodological note.

Frequently Asked Questions

Where has Jose Parejo , JPA, been cited in international media?

Jose Parejo and JPA have been cited by The Japan Times (6 articles, 2024–2025), BBC News, Al Jazeera, Gulf Intelligence, L'AGEFI (France), Radio France Internationale, WION, and Q News Egypt, among others. The firm's CEO is also a regular contributor to RTVE Radio Exterior de España and El Español Invertia.

What is Jose Parejo & Associates' area of expertise?

JPA is a strategic intelligence and geopolitical risk advisory firm with direct operational experience across five continents. The firm provides geopolitical risk analysis, energy security intelligence, decision architecture, and systemic risk assessment for boards, institutional investors, sovereign actors, and executives operating in complex, high-uncertainty environments — spanning Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, Asia-Pacific, and Africa.

Has Jose Parejo & Associates published institutional or academic analysis?

Yes. Jose Parejo has published with Spain's Ministry of Defence (IEEE — Instituto Español de Estudios Estratégicos), is Panel Member at Real Instituto Elcano (Energy & Defence), Member of the National Committee on American Foreign Policy (NCAFP), and academic papers are available at ssrn.com/author=9843232.

How can media or institutions contact Jose Parejo & Associates?

Media and institutional inquiries can be directed to info@joseparejo-asociadosai.com — subject line "Media PR" for press requests, or "Advisory Inquiry" for confidential strategic mandates.

How does Jose Parejo & Associates differ from larger geopolitical risk firms?

Unlike scaled firms such as Eurasia Group, Control Risks, or Oxford Analytica — which provide subscription-based intelligence and generalist country risk ratings — JPA operates as a senior-led boutique advisory unit. Clients engage JPA for bespoke, confidential strategic counsel at the intersection of EU regulatory anticipation, NATO energy security frameworks, and cross-border industrial dependencies. JPA does not compete on volume; it competes on precision, seniority, and discretion.

Club Excelencia en Gestion — (EFQM)

  • José Parejo contributes as invited author to the official blog of Club Excelencia en Gestión — the exclusive representative of the European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) in Spain since 1994, whose members account for 20% of Spain's GDP and 25% of IBEX 35 companies. His analytical piece examines governance failures in executive committees navigating high-uncertainty environments. https://www.clubexcelencia.org/conocimiento/blog/el-mapa-perdido-del-comite-de-direccion

Civil Society & Humanitarian Sector

  • ONG Rescate Internacional — Mali y Níger, mayo 2026

    "Alejandra Parejo, Head of Strategic Analysis at JPA, co-authored a geopolitical and humanitarian analysis of the Sahel crisis for ONG Rescate Internacional, covering conflict dynamics in Mali and Niger and their direct implications for European energy security and migration flows." https://ongrescate.org/mali-niger-ong-rescate-cooperacion-humanitaria/

Working Paper No. 1: The Analysis-to-Action Gap

Academic Citation — Studia Securitatis Journal

Fide, Think Tank. Law, Economy, Technology

  • CLIMATE CHANGE AND ENERGY TRANSITION. 2022.

    We are witnesses of a historical era in which a world of hydrocarbons seeks to unhook itself in a vibrant way, towards a new reality that cannot be spread homogeneously throughout the various geographies of the planet. https://thinkfide.com/en/cambio-climatico-y-transicion-energetica/

  • GEOPOLITICS OF ENERGY. RUSSIA AND TURKEY. 2021
    Years ago, traveling through southern Turkey near the Syrian border, Kurdish militants fighting Turkish security forces shot down a commercial helicopter in an area of ​​Batman. Those days, they also attacked a military patrol, killing 13 soldiers in the mountainous Diyarbakir area. Nothing has changed in the conflict, but other things.https://thinkfide.com/en/geopolitica-de-la-energia-rusia-y-turquia/
  • GEOPOLITICS AND ENERGY TRANSITION. 2021.
    There are emerging countries in Asia, Hispanic America or Africa, which cannot and do not want to consider any transition in a period in which, with great difficulty, they manage to get off the lists of less developed countries. In addition, why suffer from energy precariousness just in times of need, if the countries that have led the planet to the current climate problem are precisely those already industrialized? https://thinkfide.com/en/geopolitica-y-transicion-energetica/

  • WHAT ARE THE CHANCES THAT THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CHINA AND TAIWAN WILL FOLLOW THE COURSE OF THE RUSSIAN WAR IN UKRAINE? 2022.

    The ROC regards Taiwan as an inseparable part of the nation, where Taiwan has become a strategic hinge between the East and South China seas. https://thinkfide.com/en/que-posibilidades-hay-de-que-el-conflicto-entre-china-y-taiwan-siga-el-recorrido-de-la-guerra-rusa-en-ucrania/

  • WHAT HAPPENS TO AFRICA. 2020.

    Although there are still reminiscences of those times today, we cannot be so innocent and untimely as to fall into an exacerbated victimhood that relieves our moral souls, by harassing the colonialist from the living room sofa. https://thinkfide.com/en/lo-que-le-ocurre-a-africa/

  • THE TRADE WAR BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND CHINA. 2020.

    China is quietly ascending to a position that the White House already feels threatening. The United States does what its geopolitics dictates; Like China, what happens is that both imperatives, not aspirations, are on a collision course. https://thinkfide.com/en/la-guerra-comercial-entre-los-estados-unidos-y-china/

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