Nizar Manek is Founder and Managing Director of Periplus Research, a London-based strategy and disputes advisory firm built on the Track II tradition—for frontier and emerging economies.

Before founding Periplus Research, built proprietary methodology, interlocutor networks, and legal and compliance protocols underpinning hundreds of engagements across Africa, the Middle East, and Asia—for top-tier strategic intelligence and disputes advisory firms, arbitration practices, multilateral and development finance institutions, European foreign ministries, and Track II peace processes; UN Security Council Affairs Division Pool of Experts.

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 the European Press Prize and Overseas Press Club of America. Education: LSE, Columbia Law and Business Schools, SOAS. Based in London; previously Addis Ababa, Cairo, Tunis, Istanbul, Yerevan, and Athens.