Samo Burja

Samo Burja is a Slovenian political theorist and podcaster who researches how civilisations function, writing and speaking on history, institutions and strategy. He has systematised his approach, which focuses on exceptional individuals who found new social and political institutions, as Great Founder Theory. In 2017 he founded the consulting firm Bismarck Analysis; he is a Senior Research Fellow in Political Science at the Foresight Institute, has chaired the editorial board of Palladium Magazine since 2024, and was a Research Fellow at the Long Now Foundation from 2020 to 2023. His YouTube channel had about 14,800 subscribers in December 2025.