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Scott Wilcox comments on political risk, market entry, government and sovereign relationships, and operating in sanctioned or conflict-affected markets. He is contactable on LinkedIn and X.

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Scott Wilcox is a political risk and market entry adviser. He founded Sicuro Group and is based between Washington DC and Dubai.

Headshot: download. Role, in full: Political Risk and Market Entry Adviser. Founder of Sicuro Group. He is not the chief executive, and the title should not be given as CEO.

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Scott Wilcox advises governments, state institutions, multinationals and private investors entering difficult markets: from the decision to invest to the protection of people and capital once there. He works across the Gulf, Africa, Latin America and Central Asia, and advises boards on their exposure in those markets.

Before advising independently, he founded Sicuro Group in 2005 and ran it for twenty years. He remains a shareholder.

A former Royal Marines Commando, he served in Sierra Leone, Northern Ireland and Afghanistan. He sits on the OSAC MENA and Afghanistan Country Council steering committees and is a board member of Friends of the American University of Afghanistan. He was named among The Innovators 2026 by The CEO Magazine.

In 2026 he opened Sicuro's Latin America presence from Bogotá, with the support of the UAE Embassy and the Dubai Chamber, to bring Gulf investors into the region and Latin American capital to the UAE, and through it to Africa and Asia.