Oxford Analytica is an international consulting firm providing strategic analysis of world events. It was founded in 1975 by David Young, an American

United States

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 employee of the National Security Council

United States National Security Council

The White House National Security Council in the United States is the principal forum used by the President of the United States for considering national security and foreign policy matters with his senior national security advisors and Cabinet officials and is part of the Executive Office of the...

 during the Nixon administration and one of the four in the Watergate scandal

Watergate scandal

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Clients of Oxford Analytica consist of governments, international institutions, and public sector bodies, as well as financial institutions, corporations, and other private sector organizations.

The company has access to a network of over a thousand academics and specialists around the world. Its main activities are in the areas of geopolitics

Geopolitics

Geopolitics, from Greek Γη and Πολιτική in broad terms, is a theory that describes the relation between politics and territory whether on local or international scale....

 and macroeconomics

Macroeconomics

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, and its principal work comprises advisory work and a daily analysis service known as The Oxford Analytica Daily Brief.