Michael Vintr

Michael Vintr is a Senior Director at Prescient, a Chicago-based global risk management and intelligence services firm. In his role as the Practice Lead of Prescient´s Intelligence practice, Michael focuses on the firm´s most complex bespoke engagements in business intelligence and manages corporate security solutions with focus on travel risk intelligence. Michael joined Prescient in 2017 and helped to develop many of Prescient´s current best practices around management and research process, including Prescient´s current standards for international due diligence engagements. Outside of Prescient, Michael has held external consultant positions with focus on identifying early indicators of radicalization on social media, as well as general political risk analysis and forecasting.

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Michael holds a Master´s degree in International Affairs from Columbia University´s School of International and Public Affairs, where he focused on international security and was a member of the International Fellows Program.

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In his role as the Director of the PRII, Michael is responsible for setting the long-term strategy of the Institute and ensuring its mission to set professional standards of the risk intelligence industry in the Czech Republic and the wider CEE region.