Our Team

At Civitas Global Insight, our strength lies in our people — a network of strategists, analysts, and advisors united by a shared mission: to turn understanding into leadership.

Our team brings together decades of experience in government, diplomacy, policy research, and international development, offering clients both depth of expertise and diversity of perspective.

A Global Collective of Expertise

Civitas is composed of specialists from across continents — policy thinkers, economists, former diplomats, scholars, and regional experts — who bring firsthand insight into the dynamics that shape today’s world.

We work across languages, cultures, and systems, ensuring that every analysis reflects not just data, but context and meaning.

Our experts have served in:

  • Ministries of foreign affairs, defense, and economic planning
  • International organizations and multilateral development institutions
  • Leading universities, think tanks, and policy centers
  • Research institutes and strategic advisory firms
  • Humanitarian and climate-focused programs around the world

Each member of our network contributes a unique lens to understanding global transformation — from geopolitics and digital policy to climate strategy and humanitarian affairs.

Interdisciplinary Collaboration

Our work thrives on collaboration across disciplines.

Economists work alongside political scientists; environmental strategists partner with technology policy advisors; regional experts coordinate with communication specialists — all to deliver insight that is holistic, nuanced, and practical.

We believe that the most valuable solutions emerge at the intersection of disciplines and perspectives.

By integrating political, technological, economic, and social analysis, we help our clients see the world not as separate challenges, but as an interconnected system of opportunity and responsibility.

 

Leadership and Values

The Civitas leadership team is built on principles of integrity, independence, and impact.

We operate with the conviction that great advice must be both honest and actionable — grounded in facts, informed by experience, and guided by purpose.

Our culture values curiosity, ethics, and discretion.

We maintain the trust of our clients by upholding the highest standards of confidentiality, professionalism, and intellectual rigor.

Global Presence, Local Understanding

With associates and partners based in major political and economic centers around the world, Civitas combines global vision with local insight.
Our team’s geographic breadth allows us to track regional developments in real time while maintaining a cohesive, strategic global outlook.
Wherever we work — from policy hubs in Washington and Brussels to diplomatic corridors in Beijing, Nairobi, and Geneva — Civitas remains connected, informed, and ready to serve the leaders who shape tomorrow.

At Civitas Global Insight

We are more than a consultancy — we are a community of thinkers and practitioners dedicated to helping governments and institutions act wisely in an uncertain world.

Our people are united by one belief:

that understanding is the beginning of leadership, and wisdom is the foundation of progress.

Speaker Biographies

Hilary Malone PhD, has over 25 years of experience in global drug development, regulatory &government affairs, manufacturing and commercialization within the biopharma industry. Hilary hassignificant board level and executive committee experience including large scale organizationalrestructuring/transformation/integration, major M&A, biotech start-up, capital raising, investorrelations and pre-IPO.​

Hilary is currently CEO of Stylus Medicine, a private genetic medicine biotech company. Previously sheserved as CEO of a Series-A neuroscience company. Prior to these roles, Hilary served as COO & EVP atValo Health Inc., Chief Regulatory Officer & SVP at Sanofi Inc., and Chief Regulatory Officer & SVP atPfizer and Wyeth. Previous experience also includes senior regulatory and drug development roles atReata Pharmaceuticals Inc., AstraZeneca plc and GlaxoSmithKline plc.​

Hilary also serves on the Board of Directors of Hansa Biopharma and Adthera Bio. Hilary holds a PhD inMolecular Neuropharmacology and a BSc in Physiology.

Dr. Thomas Lönngren is Director at his own company PharmaExec Consulting AB. He is the Chairman of the Board of directors at Egetis Therapeutics AB, Sweden. Dr Lönngren also serves as board member at Compass Pathways PLC, London UK and NDA Group, Sweden. He acts as advisor to the following companies and organizations: NDA group, Sweden, Sweden, Artis Venture, San Francisco, US, Fujimoto Japan, Skin2Neuron Pty Ltd, Sydney, Australia, US, Special advisor to the Centre for Innovation in Regulatory Science (CIRS), London UK. From 2001 until2011, Mr.Lönngren served as the Executive Director of the European Medical Agency. He was previously Deputy General Director of the Swedish Medical Product Agency until 2000. He has a degree in pharmacy and MSc in Social and Regulatory Pharmacy from Uppsala University. He is also an Honorary Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in Great Britain, Honorary Doctorate from the University of Uppsala, Honorary Doctorate from University of Bath, UK.

Speaker Biographies

Marie-Anne Aymerich

Marie-Anne has built a portfolio of senior advisory and non-executive roles, following a successful international career in the FMCG and Luxury sectors. She is a non-executive director of Haleon, a FTSE100 company listed in 2022 after the demerger from GSK. She is also chairwoman of Haleon Environment and Societal Sustainability committee. She is the executive director of the Pierre Fabre Group where she also sits on the Strategic Committee, and she is a Board Member of The Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, one of the world’s most prestigious chamber orchestras. She is also an angel investor and focuses her time and investments on start-ups with the strongest purpose and impact.

Marie-Anne is also a regular lecturer at HEC Paris on purposeful leadership, and she has created a serious game called “Planet Purpose” to upskill people on sustainability and purpose. Throughout her 35year executive career she delivered a strong track-record of business performance and growth in brands and portfolio in both developed and emerging economies.

As a senior leader with Unilever, she led a number of different personal care categories across France, Spain and the USA – including managing the Dove brand worldwide and culminating in leading Unilever’s global Oral Care division. She also worked for LVMH as Brand General Manager of Dior Perfumes and Cosmetics worldwide. Marie-Anne was also Vice-President of Imagine for Margo – Children with Cancer for ten years, a charity she helped found in 2011 with the goal of eradicating children’s cancer. The charity is the #1 charity focused on child cancer in France and has fundraised more than €14m since its creation. Marie-Anne is a graduate from HEC Paris. She is married and has two children aged 29 and 26.

Patrick Jephson

Patrick Jephson is a consultant, journalist, broadcaster and New York Times bestselling author, based in Washington D.C. He is a published authority on corporate and personal branding and crisis communications, addressing conferences worldwide as well as events at the U.S. State Department, the American University and the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.

With more than twenty-five years’ experience in the government, luxury and family office sectors, Patrick’s portfolio has included globally admired brands as well as national agencies and NGOs. He has also worked on reputation and legacy briefs with European, Middle Eastern and Asian families, including royalty. He now writes, presents, and advises on factual and drama TV programs, appearing on every major American and many international networks. He was recently an expert consultant to the award-winning Netflix series The Crown and provided live commentary on the Coronation of King Charles.

Patrick owes much of his practical communications and protocol experience to Princess Diana, who chose him to be her equerry and only private secretary/chief of staff. He served the Princess for eight years, responsible for all aspects of her public life, global humanitarian initiatives, and private organization. Having worked for an internationally high-profile woman (and as the father of two professionally successful daughters) he feels a special affinity for cross-cultural, gender and perception issues.

Patrick was born and raised in Ireland and holds a master’s degree in political science from Cambridge University. As an officer in the British Royal Navy, he served all over the world before being selected for royal duty. He is a citizen of the U.K., U.S.A., Ireland, and Canada.