Addis Ababa correspondent, Bloomberg News, and independent consultant and analyst, Ethiopia & greater Horn of Africa. CV: Regional specialist and consulting investigator, many London and New York consultancies, international arbitration, litigation, commercial disputes, corporate investigations, and investment, security, and political intelligence analysis briefs throughout the Horn of Africa, Egypt, and Maghreb (2015-18); prognostic analysis in Yangon, Myanmar, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, command-and-control from China’s base in Djibouti and the Western and Southern Theatre commands of the People’s Liberation Army (2018); based in Cairo, Tunis, Algiers, Paris, and London, correspondent, Africa Confidential (2013-16); Egypt consultant, Center for International Development at Harvard University (2015); Marjorie Deane fellow, Financial Times (2013); exposé on Egypt’s $9.4bn. slush funds (2015) won honours including citations from Overseas Press Club of America for the Morton Frank Award for Best magazine international business news reporting and European Press Prize. Education: London School of Economics; Columbia Law School; Columbia Journalism School (2008-12). Ethiopia cell/Whatsapp +251 909 775 901; nizar.manek.hoa@gmail.com; nmanek2@bloomberg.net; @japanizar