Joining the dots
in geopolitics
About Us
Pure Strat helps you navigate geopolitical risk and plan for the future. World order is changing, war is returning to prominence and technology is revolutionising. The insights that add real strategic value are truly global and genuinely long term. Work with a thought leader in geopolitics to help realise your vision.
Keynote Speaking
Samir Puri delivers engaging keynote talks that turn complex ideas into clear, practical thinking.
This is not the usual dry academic or business keynote, but genuine human insight into the knottiest geopolitical problems. Inspire and inform your audience in equal measure around the challenges of managing global change.
Curated Workshops
Combining executive education and tailored problem-solving, these small-group sessions can be designed for senior operational or C-Suite teams.
Through practical, engaging sessions, Samir Puri equips leadership teams with sharper thinking and stronger strategic judgements, using well-honed executive education techniques to embed geopolitical thinking in their future delivery.
Strategy Advisory
Complex and changeable geopolitics can make business planning prone to rapid failure. Move beyond this to embed future-proofed longer-term thinking into your policies, strategies and horizon-scanning.
Drawing on his experience across policy, business and international institutions, Samir Puri helps organisations understand global change, spot opportunity and move forward with greater confidence.
Custom Briefing
Issue-specific analysis that can be produced rapidly to inform decisions as they pertain to specific events, geographies and themes.
Drawing on a versatile network of subject matter experts covering all major areas of geopolitical volatility and structural change in world affairs, a custom briefing will narrow down the most important variables as they pertain to your decision-making.
The combination of field experience and analytical precision is what sets Samir Puri apart.
- Saxton GlobalSamir Puri was raised in London in a family that had traversed three continents in three generations, from Asia to Africa to Europe. He later completed a PhD at Cambridge University in International Relations, worked at RAND, and then the Foreign Office, where his assignments covered counter terrorism, and a year in east Ukraine monitoring the onset of war in 2014 - 15.
After government service, Dr Puri became a lecturer in War Studies at King's College London, and guest lectured at Cambridge and Johns Hopkins. He retains a visiting post at King’s and between 2020 and 2022 was Senior Fellow at IISS-Asia in Singapore. In 2023, he became an Associate Fellow at Chatham House. In January 2025 he was appointed the inauguraldirector of Chatham House’s Centre for Global Governance and Security.
His books, 'The Great Imperial Hangover' and ‘Westlessness’ distil these varied perspectives: from the academic to the practical; from the personal to the political; and from the descendants of the colonized to those of the colonizers.