Profile: Our North Africa team

The North Africa team is led by Charles Gurdon, who has run every North Africa consultancy project of the past 20 years. It includes the founder of Menas, who has over 40 years of experience on Libya; the world's leading authority on the Sahara; three of the leading English-speaking Algeria specialists; a Cambridge academic specialising in North African Islamist communities; a Cairo-based Egypt specialist with excellent links to the country's elite; a seasoned Algerian journalist; and many others.