Paul Goldstein is Chief Executive Officer and President of PTB Global Advisors (PTBGA), a strategic consultancy company founded in September 2000. Mr. Goldstein has over 45 years of experience in analyzing international affairs, strategic geopolitical developments, U.S. national security, economic/financial matters, and Great Power Competition. Mr. Goldstein clients including Japanese businesses and government agencies He was Vice President of Strategic Renaissance for the 21^st Century (SR21), an organization founded by Admiral Bobby Ray Inman, former NSA director and deputy director of CIA.  Previously, he worked with the Office of Secretary of Defense’s Office of Net Assessment (ONA) and worked in U.S. intelligence on anti-terrorism in the late 1970s.