Who We Are
We didn't study this region from the outside.
Red Sea Futures is the operating brand of Perim Narrative Arts, LLC. Our leadership and senior experts have spent their careers inside the Red Sea Basin — as diplomats, military commanders, shipping executives, development practitioners, and scholars. When you engage us, these are the people working your problem.
Assembled specifically for your problem
Our Project Leads and Technical Partners
The project leads and technical partners who direct our engagements — a subset of our 230+ subject-matter experts, each with an average of 25+ years of direct engagement across the Red Sea Basin.
Dr. Ethan Chorin
Noura Abdi Farah
Fatima Abo Alasrar
Dr. Birol Başkan
Michael Brill
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Dr. Sarah Deardorff Miller
Justin Dehorty
Dr. Guilain Denoeux
Sherif Dhaimish
Captain Roy Facey
Dr. Blair Fowlkes Childs
Dr. Anna Gueorguieva
Dr. Samuel Helfont
Whitney Hischier
Dr. Romaric Jannel
Carl Jansma
Danial Kaysi
Peter Kennedy
Dr. Vasanth N. Mohan
Al-Sharif Nasser bin Nasser
Sara Olsen
Col. Steve Rotkoff
Ambassador Lange Schermerhorn
Dr. Robert Springborg
Ambassador Dinkar Srivastava
Ambassador Patrick Theros
Behind the leads sits a bench of 230+ specialists — assembled for your problem, not for ours.
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
Methodology Partners
Proven, structured methodologies that integrate directly with our expert network and research technology — bringing adversarial analysis, strategic foresight, and impact measurement to every engagement.
Adversarial analysis and assumption testing. Founded by Colonel (Ret.) Steve Rotkoff, former director of the U.S. Army's Red Team University, and Whitney Hischier of UC Berkeley Haas. Rotkoff authored the Applied Critical Thinking Handbook — the industry standard for red teaming. The firm has facilitated red teams for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and U.S. Special Operations Command.
Strategic foresight and scenario planning. Two decades of experience helping organizations plan under uncertainty using its Alternative Futures methodology. Clients include the U.S. Coast Guard, NASA, FEMA, and the U.S. Department of State. FSG's scenario work for the Coast Guard's Project Evergreen was featured as a case study in the Harvard Business Review.
Social and environmental impact measurement. Since 2001, SVT has helped corporations, institutional investors, foundations, and NGOs assess and manage their social return on investment. A co-founder of Social Value International's U.S. chapter, SVT brings rigorous impact accounting frameworks to development finance, infrastructure investment, and sustainability strategy.
kulturalis.com
A London-based bespoke publishing partner for museums and cultural institutions, turning their collections and stories into beautifully produced books. Founded in 2023 by Neil Titman and Charlotte Kramer — president of the facsimile house Müller & Schindler, part of the Universal Art Group — Kulturalis carries an institution's idea through every stage, from commissioning authors to design, translation, and print, before distributing worldwide through ACC Art Books. Institutions keep creative control while gaining a global platform and an annual royalty on trade sales. In under three years it has contracted more than 70 publications with clients across 20+ countries and five continents.