Shahin is the founder and Principal Strategist at Global South Strategic Intelligence (GSSI).
He is also architect of the Sovereign Risk Spectrometer, a proprietary analytical engine designed to bridge the chasm between Western consensus narratives and the institutional realities of Global South power.
With a foundation in Applied Mathematics (Sharif University) and Financial Engineering (Imperial College), Shahin spent over a decade at Citigroup and Credit Suisse. There, he directly underwrote and structured more than $14 billion in high-stakes emerging market transactions across 20+ jurisdictions. His methodology is forged in the clinical, outcome-oriented discipline of institutional underwriting, rather than the speculative leanings of traditional political commentary.
Through his London-based advisory, GSSI, Shahin has effectively inverted the intelligence value chain. By replacing “geopolitical astrology” with Predictive Determinism, he applies banking-grade rigor to decode the Sovereign Circuitry of the world’s most complex states. Having stress-tested his framework on the most opaque and sanctioned systems on earth, Shahin has solved the “black box” of state resilience where traditional intelligence consistently fails.