Treston Wheat

Treston Wheat, PhD, currently serves as Chief Geopolitical Officer at Insight Forward, specializing in geopolitical risk consulting and advanced intelligence training. Additional roles include Senior Advisor for Global Safety and Security at Save the Children US, Special Advisor on Geopolitics and Security at Riley Risk Inc., and Editor in Chief of The Close Protection and Security Journal at the International Protective Security Board. Treston also teaches as an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University in the School of Foreign Service. Previous experience encompasses positions such as Red Team Specialist at Milestone Technologies, Principal Strategic Risk Analyst at AS Solution, and strategic intelligence roles involving geopolitical analysis and cybersecurity at Microsoft. Treston holds a PhD in International Relations from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, along with a Master’s in Security Studies from Georgetown University and a Bachelor’s in Political Science and History from the University of Tennessee.