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London Politica is the world's largest Pro Bono political risk advisory run by students and young professionals across 34 countries, speaking 46 languages, with 211 active employees involved in research, business development, and communications. It was founded in 2020 by Manas Chawla, formed out of the Political Risk and Investment Society (PRIS) based at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

History
As a political risk advisory, London Politica provides intelligence, analysis, and advice to global businesses and institutions. It gives expertise on political decisions, events, or conditions might affect the organizations' profitably, security, or operations. The firm also aims to help democratize the political risk space by orientating its services towards NGOs and charities, who often lack political risk coverage due to high costs despite typically operating in politically tense or unstable zones.

In 2020, some of the public projects London Politica published includes an analysis of religious fundamentalism in Southeast Asia and Latin America during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In 2021, London Politica issued reports analyzing topics such as the global supply chain of COVID-19 vaccine and climate change proposals throughout the regions of EU, US, and China.

In 2022, London Politica launched its first "Watch" project – Ukraine Watch – immediately following Russia's signs of aggression. Ukraine Watch publishes timely rolling updates, as well as local and macro analysis of key issues and trends in, and resulting from, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine from a humanitarian, security, economic, political, geopolitical, and defense perspective. It aims to help humanitarian NGOs, charities, organizations, and those affected by Putin's Invasion of Ukraine sift through the mass of information, intelligence, propaganda, and fake news to bring to the fore trusted sources of information. Following this effort, new projects such as China Watch, Global Commodities Watch, Tech and Cyber Watch, and Conflict and Security Watch.

Clients
London Politca's key clients include Global Citizen, International Committee of the Red Cross, the Pakistan-Britain Business Council, Human Aid, Minority Rights Group, and more.

Multimedia content
London Politica produces a range of public facing multimedia content. This includes the "London Politica Podcast", which covers emerging and prominent trends in political risk analysis, exploring developments in international relations, business, civic, and governmental arenas. The Podcast has featured Catherine Fieschi, Parag Khanna, Kerry Brown, John Hulsman, and more. London Politica's Youtube channel has also featured world-leading thinkers such as Noam Chomsky.

Media coverage
The firm and the founder, Manas Chawla, have been featured on University of Cambridge's magazine Varsity. Manas Chawla's TEDx speech at LSE, "The open-source intelligence revolution: Meet the kids outsmarting the CIA", was published as an editor's pick.

The head of the Research Team, Samuel Jardine, was quoted for his opinions by Voice of America.

Advisory board

 * Livia Paggi – partner and the head of political risk at GPW, an international political risk, disputes consulting and investigations firm based across the globe
 * Parag Khanna
 * Sean West – co-founder of Hence Technologies, an AI-driven platform for identifying and vetting legal, consulting and other professional services.
 * Tristen Naylor – fellow in International Relations at the London School of Economics and a Director of Diplomatic Solutions Ltd.
 * Tim Williams – set up and runs an advisory business intelligence function at a Fortune 500 company.
 * George Coe – partner at PRISM, a political risk start-up based in New York, USA.
 * Johan Gott – partner at PRISM, a political risk start-up based in New York, USA.
 * Basim Al-Ahmadi – thought leader, political risk consultant and media executive; co-founder of one of the world’s leading platforms that provide political risk analysis, Global Risk Insights (GRI).