Finley Grimble spent 11 years in strategic advisory, policymaking, wargaming, and diplomatic roles for the UK Government, serving at the Cabinet Office, Ministry of Defence, Foreign Office, and with Parliamentarians. This included: – Designing wargames, including for the National Security Council Officials (the highest decision-making body in the UK national... Read more
Finley Grimble spent 11 years in strategic advisory, policymaking, wargaming, and diplomatic roles for the UK Government, serving at the Cabinet Office, Ministry of Defence, Foreign Office, and with Parliamentarians.
This included:
– Designing wargames, including for the National Security Council Officials (the highest decision-making body in the UK national security system), on China, Taiwan, Russia, Ukraine, NATO, US-UK relations, Israel, Gaza, Iran.
– Working with the Prime Minister, Defence Secretary, Foreign Secretary, National Security Advisor and National Security Council.
– Diplomacy with NATO Allies as well as UK’s adversaries.
– Global grand strategy advising as well as regional policy advising.
Finley is the Founder & CEO of the Knightsbridge Strategic Group (KSG). KSG provides intelligence, wargaming, strategy, AI augmentation, and embedded specialists into its finance, defence, energy, extractive, logistics, tech, governmental and intergovernmental clients.
He is personally embedded into NATO currently to provide wargaming, strategy and AI services. He served a similar embedded function for Google in the past (surrounding intelligence).
He regularly appears across several media outlets, including CBS, CNN, Business Insider, The Diplomat, South China Morning Post and Rolling Stone.
Finley draws on his experience advising major banks and financial institutions to assess the geopolitical threats shaping markets. He explains how conflicts, sanctions, and supply chain shocks have disrupted finance—and shares lessons and strategies to navigate an era of pervasive geopolitical risk.
Finley presents an exclusive forecast of the year’s key geopolitical flashpoints and emerging risks. He explores scenario planning, early warning indicators, and actionable intelligence designed to help decision-makers in business and government prepare for disruption and seize strategic advantage.
Finley draws on his experience advising governments, NATO, and the world’s largest companies to reveal how grand strategy is crafted and executed. This talk explores how leaders from Napoleon, Bismarck, and Machiavelli to today’s strategists use reflexive control, inception, covert effects, narrative, and deception—employing all levers of state power: military,...
Finley explains how AI is revolutionising intelligence and strategic planning. He delves into practical methods to integrate AI tools into analysis and decision-making, and assesses the risks of relying on opaque systems that can both empower and undermine modern strategy.
Finley assesses NATO’s evolving mission, Europe’s emerging defence capabilities, and the dilemmas posed by Russia, China, and internal divisions. He explores how the shifting US commitment to European security and debates about European autonomy are reshaping defence strategy and long-term stability.
Finley examines why Taiwan has become the central flashpoint in US-China rivalry. He delves into scenarios of conflict and blockade, and explains how this contest is reshaping alliances, trade, and the global balance of power across the Indo-Pacific and beyond.
Finley analyses how Russia’s war in Ukraine is reshaping NATO’s priorities, testing US resolve, and creating profound dilemmas over escalation and long-term containment. He explores the conflict’s implications for European security and Western credibility in an increasingly contested world.
Finley assesses the grand strategies of the major players shaping the Middle East, from Iran’s regional ambitions to Saudi Arabia’s transformation and Israel’s evolving security posture. He explains the shifting balance of power, examines the risks and opportunities, and shares his perspective on where the region is ultimately heading.
Finley explores the competing visions for the US’s grand strategy over the next century. He assesses how Washington can navigate rising Chinese power, technological disruption, and internal challenges while sustaining its leadership and adapting to a transformed global order.
Finley explains how the UK can forge a coherent grand strategy that balances economic resilience, security partnerships, and renewed global influence. He assesses strategic options for the UK to remain relevant and effective amid accelerating geopolitical competition.
Finley explores how wargaming reveals hidden assumptions, tests strategic plans, and strengthens resilience. He explains proven wargame approaches that help leaders in government, business, and finance prepare for crises and make better decisions in complex, high-stakes environments.