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Dr Noel Brehony, CMG, Chair

After a long career in the UK Foreign Office and then as Rolls-Royce's director of Middle East Affairs, Noel Brehony joined Menas as chairman. He is the former president of the British Society of Middle East Studies, chair of the Council for British Research in the Levant, and an advisory board member at the London Middle East Institute at SOAS and the council of the British Egyptian Society.

Dr Charles Gurdon, Managing Director

After joining Menas Services Ltd as a researcher in 1980, Charles Gurdon oversaw the restructuring of the Menas group in which Menas Associates became the parent company. He has run our consulting portfolio and publication stable for over 20 years. He has a PhD from SOAS where he specialised in the Middle East and Africa.

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