Oxford Analytica

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Oxford Analytica is a consulting firm founded in 1975 by Dr. David Young, an American employee of the National Security Council during the Nixon administration under Dr. Henry Kissinger. He was publically linked with the Watergate break-in and subsequent cover-up. It is notable primarily in the context of proving the value of open source intelligence, and was one of the six companies that responded, pro bono, with useful open source information when asked to do so by the Aspin-Brown Commission. Many of its clients are still from the US and other governments, international institutions, and other public sector bodies, but also include a considerable number of financial institutions, corporates and other private sector organisations.

The company has access to a network of over a thousand academics and specialists around the world, particularly at the University of Oxford, England. However, despite its name it has no formal connection to the University, and works using a comparatively small full-time professional staff drawing on the extended network of scholars. Its main activities are in the area of geopolitics and economics, and comprise chiefly a consulting practice and a daily briefing service.