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Former director of operations and intelligence for the British Secret Intelligence Service, currently the Director of Geopolitical and Intelligence Analysis at Enodo Economics and senior advisor to the International Institute for Strategic Studies. Nigel is also the author of The Great Decoupling: China, America and the Struggle for Technological Supremacy.

Former director of operations and intelligence for the British Secret Intelligence Service, currently the Director of Geopolitical and Intelligence Analysis at Enodo Economics and senior advisor to the International Institute for Strategic Studies. Nigel is also the author of The Great Decoupling: China, America and the Struggle for Technological Supremacy.

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