David Bridges is a senior geopolitical advisor at Fidelity Investments. In this role, Mr. Bridges provides expert geopolitical assessment to Fidelity investors and institutional clients. Prior to joining Fidelity, Mr. Bridges served a 25-year career in the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) Clandestine Service. At the time of his retirement in 2011, he was a member of the Senior Intelligence Service, the elite leadership team that guides CIA activities across the globe. Mr. Bridges held a number of critical positions, to include executive direction of all CIA activity in Russia, the former Soviet Union, central and eastern Europe, and the Balkans, operational command of all CIA offensive and defensive counterintelligence operations worldwide, and several assignments as chief of station.