Nizar Manek

Leads Periplus, its assessments and strategic advice. Over fifteen years, built the in-country networks, human-source collection and assessment methods, and compliance protocols behind hundreds of specialised engagements in frontier and emerging economies. Those networks have supplied underlying source reporting for client engagements delivered through the top-tier strategic intelligence and disputes advisory firms, alongside work for arbitration practices, development finance institutions and European foreign ministries, and on Track II peace processes and mediation.

Earlier career as a correspondent for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, and Africa Confidential, covering the Horn of Africa and Red Sea, Middle East and North Africa, and West Africa and Sahel through multiple regime changes. Work in the Financial Times, Jane's Intelligence Review, Foreign Affairs, Le Monde Diplomatique, Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, and London Review of Books. Academic work on political economy and ethnography with Harvard’s Center for International Development. Member, UN Security Council Affairs Division Pool of Experts. Recognition from the European Press Prize, Overseas Press Club of America, Foreign Press Association in London and Transparency International. Education: LSE, Columbia Law and Business Schools, SOAS. Based in London; previously Addis Ababa, Cairo, Tunis, Istanbul, Yerevan, Athens.