Our Network

Our Principal Experts.

The key experts who direct our engagements — a subset of our 250+ subject-matter experts. As a group, they average 25+ years of direct engagement across the Red Sea Basin.

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Dr. Ethan Chorin

Dr. Ethan Chorin

Founder & CEO · Former U.S. Diplomat, Libya & UAE · Yale Lecturer · Author, Harvard University Press
Shivonne Logan

Shivonne Logan

Chief of Staff · Humanitarian & Multilateral Practice · Yale MPP · Based between the US and Amman
Noura Abdi Farah

Noura Abdi Farah

Global & Regional Health Policy · Horn of Africa
Fatima Abo Alasrar

Fatima Abo Alasrar

Yemen & Horn of Africa · Political Dynamics & Security
Professor Birol Başkan

Dr. Birol Başkan

Turkish domestic & foreign policy/ MENA geopolitics/ Political Islam
Michael Brill

Michael Brill

Ph.D. Candidate, Near Eastern Studies · Princeton · Wilson Center Global Fellow · Iraq & Baʿth Party Specialist
Dr. Sarah Deardorff Miller

Dr. Sarah Deardorff Miller

Expert Advisor on Refugee, Migration & Humanitarian Issues
Dr. Guilain Denoeux

Dr. Guilain Denoeux

Professor of Government at Colby College
Sherif Dhaimish

Sherif Dhaimish

Publisher & Writer · Sales Director, Kulturalis
Captain Roy Facey

Captain Roy Facey

Maritime Operations Specialist · Red Sea Shipping
Dr. Blair Fowlkes Childs

Dr. Blair Fowlkes Childs

MENA Archaeology & Antiquities
Dr. Anna Gueorguieva

Dr. Anna Gueorguieva

Climate Finance & ESG Strategy, GreeniumDC
Dr. Samuel Helfont

Dr. Samuel Helfont

Associate Professor of Strategy and Policy
Whitney Hischier

Whitney Hischier

Strategic Planning & Red Teaming · UC Berkeley Haas
Dr. Romaric Jannel

Dr. Romaric Jannel

Red Sea Futures Ethicist / Consulting Advisor
Carl Jansma

Carl Jansma

Procurement, Contracts & Supply Chain Specialist · Maritime & Infrastructure · 35+ Years MENA & ASEAN · Chartered Fellow, CIPS
Danial Kaysi

Danial Kaysi

Strategic Advisor · Geopolitics · Market Strategy · MENA & Global Affairs
Peter Kennedy

Peter Kennedy

Scenario Planning · Futures Strategy Group
Dr. Vasanth N. Mohan

Dr. Vasanth N. Mohan

Investment Professional, Shukr Investments · Semiconductor & AI Equities · Former GMO / Morgan Stanley · PhD, Materials Engineering
Al-Sharif Nasser bin Nasser

Al-Sharif Nasser bin Nasser

Development Policy · Security · Renewables
Sara Olsen

Sara Olsen

Impact Accounting, Management & Valuation / Sustainable Investment & ESG
Col. Steve Rotkoff

Col. Steve Rotkoff

Red Teaming & Strategic Analysis Specialist
Prof. Robert Springborg

Dr. Robert Springborg

Political Economy of Egypt / MENA

Behind the leads is a pool of 250+ specialists, drawn on for each engagement.

Our leads draw on this pool to build bespoke teams matched precisely to each client's matter. Experts are mobilized in hours, not weeks. Every output is reviewed and certified by a credentialed specialist before it reaches you.

Disciplines covered

Supply Chain Construction & PM Infrastructure Port Management Red Sea Politics Tech & AI Shipping & Logistics Maritime Security Finance & Insurance Banking Financial Services Regulatory & Compliance International Trade Agricultural Sciences Engineering Tourism Climate Science Violent Extremism Maritime Piracy Culture & History Humanitarian Affairs Migration & Displacement Public Health Oil & Gas Renewable Energy Desalination Strategic Foresight Policy Development Scenario Planning Red Teaming
250+
Subject Matter ExpertsAcross 20+ disciplines
56
PhD HoldersIn the network
18yr
Average ExperienceRed Sea / MENA per expert
10+
Regional Languages
The body of work

Our leads and experts don't just work the region first-hand. They wrote the books on it.

The books below are a small selection of those written by our principals and experts, published by Oxford, Brookings, Edinburgh, Palgrave, Routledge and Polity, among others. Libya to the Horn of Africa, Iraq to the Gulf, refugee protection to red-teaming.

Benghazi! A New History — Ethan Chorin (Hachette) Exit the Colonel — Ethan Chorin (PublicAffairs) Iraq Against the World — Samuel Helfont (Oxford University Press) The Iraq Wars: A Very Short Introduction — Samuel Helfont (Oxford University Press) Compulsion in Religion — Samuel Helfont (Oxford University Press) The Politics of Islam — Birol Başkan (Edinburgh University Press) Turkey and Qatar in the Tangled Geopolitics of the Middle East — Birol Başkan (Palgrave Macmillan) Turkey: The Second Republic — Birol Başkan (Routledge) Egypt — Robert Springborg (Polity) Political Economies of the Middle East and North Africa — Robert Springborg (Polity) Making Aid Work — Guilain Denoeux & Robert Springborg (Lynne Rienner) Battling Terrorism in the Horn of Africa — contributor Amb. Lange Schermerhorn (Brookings) UNHCR as a Surrogate State — Sarah Deardorff Miller (Routledge) Political and Humanitarian Responses to Syrian Displacement — Sarah Deardorff Miller (Routledge) Forgotten Kashmir — Dinkar Srivastava (HarperCollins India) A Libyan Artist in Exile — Sherif Dhaimish (Pendle Press)

A small selection of our principals’ and experts’ books — updated as they publish.

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