About Brent M. Eastwood, PhD

Brent M. Eastwood, PhD, is a Political Scientist and International Affairs specialist. He was formerly a Professorial Lecturer at The George Washington University Elliott School of International Affairs in Washington, DC. While teaching at the GWU Elliott School, Brent completed a legislative fellowship in the U.S. Senate where he advised U.S. Senator Tim Scott on Armed Services and Foreign Relations issues including conducting policy reviews on Russia, China, and Iran.

He was formerly Founder and CEO of GovBrain. GovBrain is a FinTech company that automatically predicts world events using machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Previously he was a foreign policy intelligence analyst at The Langley Intelligence Group Network, a digital geopolitical risk and private intelligence firm in the nation's capital. 

He is the author of the book The Origins of Internet Video and the book Solutions for a 21st Century Economy. He also co-wrote the Economic Freedom Index from the Pacific Research Institute and Forbes Magazine. Brent has been published in the academic journals Applied Research in Economic Development and American Foreign Policy Interests.

In 2012, he was selected by Market News International (MNI) for a competition to forecast U.S. leading economic indicators, and in 2013, he won a forecasting prize from MNI. Brent was awarded for once predicting the exact monthly U.S. job number during that year. In 2011, Brent was named to the Wharton School Advisory Panel of Executives at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2010, he received the "New Mexico Best Economic Forecaster Award" from PNM Resources and Wells Fargo for predicting a market bottom in the spring of 2009 and for predicting accurate levels for the DJIA and S&P 500 at the end of 2009.

Brent founded and led the political consultancy EastwoodNet, LLC from 2004 to 2009 and served as Policy Adviser, Speech Writer, Legislative Analyst, and General Consultant for numerous campaigns at the Presidential, U.S. Senate, U.S. House, and Gubernatorial level. EastwoodNet was featured in the Wall Street Journal in October of 2009.

In 2008, Brent served on the event staff at the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis. He was an academic observer at the U.S. Department of State’s Middle East Peace Conference in Annapolis, Maryland in 2007. Brent was chosen to represent the U.S. at the 2006 NATO Summit "Young Leaders' Forum" in Riga, Latvia where he led a study group and gave foreign policy recommendations on the war in Afghanistan to the NATO Secretary-General.

Brent was also an Adjunct Professor at George Mason University Schar School of Policy and Government where he taught graduate seminars in national security, governance, and public policy.

While in graduate school, Brent served as a Defense Analyst in Science and Technology for the RAND Corporation's National Defense Research Institute. He conducted strategic policy, performed technical analysis, and co-authored two studies for the Under Secretary of Defense, Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics.

Brent has been featured or quoted in the Wall Street Journal, The Independent-UK, The Sydney Morning Herald, World Finance, Yahoo Finance, Federal Times, Benzinga Financial News, FutureSource from the Atlantic Council, Foreign Direct Investment (fDi) Magazine, The Voice of Technology, Medium, New Mexico Politics with Joe Monahan, and Communities Digital News. He has also contributed several articles to the American Enterprise Institute and the Atlantic Council.

Brent is a frequent public speaker on numerous issues and topics such as international security, entrepreneurship, artificial intelligence, machine learning, management, and leadership. He has spoken to large audiences in New York City, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, and Orlando. 

He is a former U.S. Army Infantry officer and Distinguished Military Graduate with five years of military experience. Brent has earned a PhD in Political Science/ Public Policy, an MA in Political Science/ International Relations, an MS in Journalism, and a BA in English. Brent lives with his wife and son in Rockwall, Texas.

Critical Conversation About Global Terrorism with Brent M. Eastwood

Forecasting International Events

British Election: Can Data Science See Through the Fog of Terror Attacks?

Can Technology Fight Corruption in Violence-prone States?

Why Blockchain Could Build a Steel Curtain Against Public Corruption

Can Japanese Stock Rally Carry Through Japan's General Election?

How Companies Are Planning for East Asian Instability

Is Science the Key to the Middle East?

The Biggest Foreign Policy Question Facing the U.S.

Data Firms React to Iranian Presidential Showdown

Data Firms Weigh In On South Korean Presidential Race During Polling Blackout

The Prediction Game: Data Science Firms vs. Pollsters on the French Presidential Election

Poland's Economy Outperforms Its Quarrelsome Leaders

A Note on the New Face of Citizen Diplomacy

Citizen Diplomacy: A Very Democratic Idea

Reports from the Rand Corporation on Defense Acquisition

Five Policies that Shaped the Pentagon

Top 10 Artificial Intelligence Companies Disrupting the Defense Industry

Gene-Editing in China: Beneficial Science or Emerging Military Threat?

Perils of Chasing Smokestacks - 2009, Buffalo News

Creative Class vs. Social Capital vs. Economic Freedom vs. U.S. Economic Growth

GovBrain: Oxymoron Or Brilliant Idea?

Building with BRICS

GovBrain Picked Among BBVA Fintech Awards Finalists

IMF and World Bank in Need of More Modern Forecasting Methods

Global Economics Research for the Langley Intelligence Group Network

Walk This Way - Walkable Communities and New Urbanism

Freedom, Social Capital, and the Creative Class

Cash In On Drones, Self-Driving Cars and Other Government Regulations with GovBrain

GovBrain's Trump Card: Only GovBrain Predicted the Rise of Trump

GovBrain Predictions: Hot and Cold Technology Trends for 2017

GovBrain's Brent M. Eastwood Predicted Trump Would Win the General Election on May 10

GovBrain CEO Brent M. Eastwood Talks About Predicting World Events

The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

How to Predict If a Corporation Becomes the Victim of a Cyber Intrusion

Can Japanese Stock Rally Carry Through Japan's General Election?