Nizar Manek is Founder and Managing Director of Periplus Research, a London-based strategic advisory firm providing relationship-based intelligence across Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, South Asia, and Southeast Asia.

Before founding Periplus, built interlocutor networks, methodologies, and compliance architecture underpinning hundreds of complex engagements for the top-tier strategic intelligence and disputes advisory firms, European foreign ministries, arbitration practices, and Track II peace processes.

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 over eight years, with 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; recognition from European Press Prize and Overseas Press Club of America. Studied at LSE, Columbia Law and Business Schools, and SOAS. Based in London; previously Addis Ababa, Cairo, Tunis, Istanbul, Yerevan, and Athens.