Nizar Manek is Founder and Managing Director of Periplus Research, providing relationship-based intelligence and strategic advice to institutional clients where outcomes depend on realities structurally inaccessible to conventional analysis—across Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, and South Asia.

Before founding Periplus, developed proprietary network infrastructure and methodologies for more than a decade—relied upon by top-tier strategic intelligence and disputes advisory firms, European foreign ministries, international arbitration practices, and Track II diplomatic channels for their most complex mandates—hundreds of engagements. Studied at the London School of Economics, Columbia Law and Business Schools, and the School of Oriental and African Studies.

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, with work in the Financial Times, Jane’s Intelligence Review, Foreign Affairs, Le Monde Diplomatique, Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, and the London Review of Books—academic work on political economy and ethnography, recognition from the European Press Prize and Overseas Press Club of America. Based in London; previously Addis Ababa, Cairo, Tunis, Istanbul, Yerevan, and Athens.