Meredith Wilson is the Founder and CEO of Emergent Risk International (ERI), a global risk and intelligence advisory firm that builds intelligence-driven advantage for multi-national business operating in complex geopolitical and security environments. ERI’s primary focus is providing outsourced and in-house intelligence capabilities, custom advisory work, and business analyst training that give security and risk leaders a continuous, decision-ready view of emerging threats and opportunities.

Since founding ERI in 2014, Meredith has led the company’s evolution from a one-person startup into a global team of nearly 100 people across North America, Europe, Latin America, Africa, and Asia-Pacific, scaling the business to multi-million-dollar annual revenues as a self-funded enterprise. She focuses on building high-performing teams, expanding ERI’s product and service offerings, and partnering with boards and C-suites to integrate strategic intelligence into core decision-making, risk governance, and business continuity.

An experienced executive advisor, Meredith works closely with senior security, risk, and business leaders to design and mature intelligence and risk functions, develop new market entry frameworks, and navigate complex geopolitical, regulatory, and physical security environments. She regularly briefs executive teams on emerging risks and has helped build first-of-their-kind corporate intelligence capabilities in multiple global organizations.

Before founding ERI, Meredith built and led strategic intelligence and political risk functions in the energy sector. At ConocoPhillips, she designed and implemented the company’s first globally standardized strategic security analysis program, including global threat ratings, executive briefings, and cornerstone risk assessments for market entry into new countries such as Iraq, and she played a key role in evacuations and re-entry during the Arab Spring. She later created and led the political risk function at Kosmos Energy overseeing cross-functional new market entry risk assessments and advising senior leadership on government affairs and geopolitical exposure.

Meredith began her career in the U.S. intelligence community as a Defense Intelligence Officer, serving in the Pentagon and overseas and helping to fill critical language and regional expertise gaps after 9/11. This early experience in government, combined with her subsequent corporate leadership roles, underpins her expertise at the intersection of intelligence, business strategy, and enterprise risk.

Meredith serves on the Board of Directors of the Global Center for Cooperative Security and is a founding leader in the private-sector intelligence community, including the Private Sector Intelligence Council (PSIC) and the Association of International Risk and Intelligence Professionals (AIRIP), which has grown to more than 500 members. She is also a Trustee of the Committee for Economic Development (CED) of The Conference Board, contributing to work at the nexus of business, policy, and economic security, and is a sought-after keynote speaker and media commentator on geopolitical risk, corporate security, and the future of private-sector intelligence.

Meredith has lived and worked in Europe and Southeast Asia, bringing a global lens to executive decision-making and governance. She is an alumna of the University of Arizona, the University of Malaya, and Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. She lives near Boston with her family.