| 07/2024 – to date | FTI Consulting GmbH Senior Director |
| 09/2022 – 07/2024 | PWC Deutschland GmbH Senior Manager |
| 02/2022 – 09/2022 | Atlantik-Brücke e.V. Head of Programme |
| 04/2018- 09/2022 | Sigmar Gabriel Advisor |
| 10/2018 – 10/2019 | Deutscher Bundestag Research Assistant, Office of Sigmar Gabriel, MP |
Prof. Dr. Eitel holds an M.Sc. In Global Security which he obtained at the UK Defence Academy in Shrivenham. In his Ph.D. he examined the issue of strategic surprise and deception in the context of Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014. He has maintained a close relationship with the defence and intelligence debate throughout his career having lectured at the German Federal Defence College, West Point Military Academy, the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom and the German Intelligence Community Conference on issues of strategic crisis management, scenario planning and maritime security.
Prof. Dr. Peter Eitel has more than 15 years of professional experience at the intersection of the private sector, public sector, and politics, with a focus on geopolitics, geostrategy, and strategic crisis management. At FTI, he heads the Geopolitical Risk Services Practice. Before joining the firm, Peter built the Geopolitical Risk Advisory practice at a Big4 company, demonstrating his capability in this specialised field.
Other previous roles included Deputy Director at a Risk and Crisis Management Consultancy, Research Fellow at the UK Defence Academy, Program Director at the Aspen Institute Germany, Head of Foreign Policy and Parliamentary Outreach at Atlantik Brücke and advisor and speechwriter for a former German Federal Minister. Peter Eitel has published numerous articles on the intersection of geopolitics and business, strategy and defense and is a frequent panelist and speaker on geopolitical issues.
- ‘Geschwächte Riesen’, mit Sigmar Gabriel, in: The Pioneer, September 2026.
- ‚Europe and the Next World Order’, mit Sigmar Gabriel, in: Project Syndicate, März 2025.
- ‚It’s Geopolitics, Stupid: Zum Zusammenhang von Geopolitik und Wirtschaft, in: SIRIUS – Zeitschrift für strategische Analysen, 02/24, Kiel, London, Juni 2024.
- ‚Renaissance der Geopolitik: wie Unternehmen Geopolitik in ihr Risikomanagement integrieren können‘, mit Jens Paulus, Studie von PriceWaterhouseCoopers Deutschland (Hg), Februar 2023
- ‚One man’s surprise is another man’s analysis: Warum Regierungen überrascht werden und was man dagegen tun kann‘, in: SIRIUS – Zeitschrift für strategische Analysen, 03/22, Kiel, London, September 2022.
- Rezension ‘Ofer Fridman (Hrsg): Strategiya – The Foundations of the Russian Art of Strategy. Oxford und New York: Oxford University Press, 2021, in: SIRIUS – Zeitschrift für strategische Analysen, 01/22, Kiel, London, März 2022.
- Rezension ‘John R. Allen/ Frederick Ben Hodges/Julian Lindley-French: Future War and the Defence of Europe,‘ in: SIRIUS – Zeitschrift für strategische Analysen, 04/21, Kiel, London, Dezember 2021
- The Russian Annexation of Crimea 2014: Which role for Surprise, especially for Germany, Kiel University, Kiel, 2021. (Dissertation)
- ‘Countering Hybrid War: The need for a new military deception doctrine?’ Auftragsstudie für das UK MoD, April 2018
- ‚Meilenstein auf dem Weg wohin? Das Weißbuch 2016‘, in: Portal für Politikwissenschaft, Kiel, 2017.
- ‘Rapporteur’s Summary,’ in: The Aspen Institute/ Glickman, Dan: Dialogue with Members of the U.S. Congress, The Russian Duma and the German Bundestag: Addressing Mutual Foreign Policy Challenges, Briesen, Germany, May 2016
- ‚Maritime Sicherheitssektorreform‘, in: Jopp, Heinz-Dieter (Hg.): Maritime Sicherheit im 21. Jahrhundert, Nomos Verlag, 2014.
- ‘Identifying Common Strategies in the Fight Against Drug Trafficking – Towards New Policies and Frameworks?’ in: Esch, Valeska / Kabus, Juliane, The Aspen Institute Deutschland, Berlin/Durres, 2013.
- ‘Failed States – Have the Humanitarian Interventions of the 1990s created them?’in: HMG; Ministry of Defence (eds): Defence Academy Yearbook 2009, Shrivenham, 2010. (Abschlussarbeit MSc. Global Security)