People
Menas Associates has a core team of senior consultants and a large network of in-country experts
and analysts. Our foundation members are professionals in strategic risk
management, diplomacy, international finance, law and academia. The diversity
in our
structure gives us a profound understanding of the intersection between
business,
politics and economics, and its effects on the investment market environment.
The experts in our network have lived and worked in the countries and regions
they
advise on thus bringing specialist insight and intelligence to every project.
Noel Brehony joined Menas Associates after a long career with the UK Foreign Office, and as a director of the Middle
East Affairs for Rolls Royce. Former president of the British Society of Middle
East Studies, chair of the Council for British Research in the Levant, advisory
board member at the London Middle East Institute (SOAS), and the council of the
British Egyptian Society, his specialist areas are Yemen and Egypt.
A consultant with years of experience in banking and advising on the Middle
East, Phillip Griffin focuses on emerging markets, trade and corporate finance.
He
earned the Citibank GAMS award in 1992.
Charles Gurdon joined Menas Associates as a researcher in 1980, and later
oversaw the restructuring of the company, its stable of publications and
consulting
portfolio. He has a PhD from SOAS, where he specialised in Africa and the
Middle
East.
Founding writer and editor of Brazil Focus, Georges Landau is based in São Paulo
where he runs his own consultancy firm and manages Menas do Brasil. Educated in law and public administration in both Brazil and the Netherlands,
he has taught international economic relations around the world.
One of Argentina's leading commercial, government and academic lawyers, Rodolfo
Lira has been an adviser, legal consultant and nominated judge-arbitrator for
various ministries and trade organisations, including US government agency
OPIC.
He is fluent in Spanish, English, French, Portuguese and Italian.
Antonio José Recca has 30 years experience working in the oil and petrochemicals
industries, since starting out his career in a marketing role at Esso in 1975.
He has postgraduate training in administration and marketing, and is a skilled
auditor for ISO norms and assessment projects. He is fluent in Spanish,
English,
Italian and Portuguese.
Educated in Argentina and the US, Carlos Regúnaga has been a legal adviser and
director of several companies and banks. He is currently the director of the
Washington-based CSIS think-tank in Buenos Aires, and president of Argentina's
oldest existing cultural guild, Club del Progreso.
Based at King's College London, Richard Schofield is a world authority on
boundary issues, with a particular focus on the Middle East. He has advised
governments and international law firms involved in boundary disputes before
arbitral
proceedings, and the International Court of Justice.
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