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

Before founding Periplus, developed proprietary network infrastructure, methodologies, and compliance architecture over a decade — relied upon by top-tier strategic intelligence and disputes advisory firms, European foreign ministries, international arbitration practices, and Track II diplomatic channels — across hundreds of engagements. Studied at the London School of Economics, Columbia Law and Business Schools, and the School of Oriental & 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 over eight years, 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 with Harvard’s Center for International Development; recognition from the European Press Prize and the Overseas Press Club of America. Based in London; previously Addis Ababa, Cairo, Tunis, Istanbul, Yerevan, and Athens.