Consultants for a
Globalized World.
Understanding the world is the foundation of navigating it.
A tailored perspective
on global complexity.
Ascendance Strategies is a boutique strategic advisory firm offering research, analysis, and consulting services tailored to each client’s evolving needs.
Our mission is to serve as a multifaceted guide through an increasingly integrated world. We combine subject-area expertise with proactive strategies to help clients anticipate change and make informed decisions.
The firm’s approach draws on primary-source professional contacts and strategic partners to support security assessment, geopolitical analysis, public relations, political strategy, and campaign consulting.
As a boutique firm, we offer an assortment of research and analysis products, tailoring consulting services to meet the needs of each individual client. Our flexible approach responds to individualized, evolving needs, with professional contacts around the world supporting custom objectives.
Anticipate. Understand. Prepare.
In a rapidly changing global economy, reacting alone is not enough. Predictive analysis helps clients understand emerging issues and prepare before those issues affect their objectives.
Our areas of focus span international affairs, personnel security, domestic implications of geopolitical developments, national security and counterterrorism, asymmetrical threats, cybersecurity and digital surveillance, political systems, and leadership analysis.
Christian Pedersen
Christian Pedersen brings a research-driven perspective to Ascendance Strategies, with a background in international relations, public policy, and national security research. He studied at Pepperdine University, specializing in international relations and state and local politics.
His published work explores cybersecurity, nuclear nonproliferation, U.S.–Russia security relations, and preparedness for biological threats. In addition to working as a Capitol Hill staffer, he was a policy fellow at the Panetta Institute for Public Policy.