Jenn Christian

Jenn Christian has more than 15 years of experience in national security, geopolitical risk management, complex investigations and threat assessment across the public and private sectors. Ms. Christian has specialized training in collecting and evaluating disparate streams of all-source intelligence to support complex international investigations. She has advised C-Suite executives, board members and business leaders on how to navigate geopolitical developments to reduce risk and maximize opportunities.

At FTI Consulting, Ms. Christian leverages her unique training and expertise in human source intelligence and human behavioral analysis to collect authoritative information beyond that available in open sources to create decision-making advantage for outside counsel and corporate clients. Combining her investigation and intelligence collection expertise with her legal training, Ms. Christian leads large investigations to support trial strategy in criminal and civil matters. She also heads international pre-deal diligence investigations to support clients’ evaluation of risk, drawing on her in-house corporate experience, leading new country entry processes and conducting geopolitical risk assessments.

Prior to joining FTI Consulting, Ms. Christian was a Senior Intelligence Manager at bp, where she evaluated geopolitical risks and performed investigations associated with project development and asset management in the oil, gas and renewable energies space. She has in-depth experience supporting market entry processes in Latin America by assessing and mitigating geopolitical, reputational, regulatory and security risks. She contributed to the development of a threat-driven risk assessment model to identify and reduce physical risks to energy infrastructure. Ms. Christian also has experience designing and executing workplace violence and insider threat mitigation programs and trainings, drawing on her background in counterintelligence.

Ms. Christian spent a decade in the federal government working on national security issues, developing expertise in nation-state threats, counterterrorism and counterintelligence. She has specialized training in collecting and analyzing disparate streams of all-source intelligence as part of complex national security-related matters and investigations. Ms. Christian leverages her significant experience with U.S. national security policy formulation to advise clients on how to mitigate exposure to the increasingly complex regulatory environment related to the same.

A subject matter expert in sub-Saharan Africa, Ms. Christian has lived and worked in and southern Africa, where she represented U.S. foreign policy objectives and national security interests in engagements with senior foreign government and security officials. Also a published author, Ms. Christian’s commentary on geopolitical risk, governance and rule of law issues in East Africa has appeared in print media and has featured on CNN, BBC and Voice of America.