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.
A consultant with extensive practical experience of banking and advisory
services in the
Middle East, Phillip Griffin focuses on emerging markets, trade, and corporate
finance. He earned the Citibank GAMS award in 1992.
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.
Founding writer and editor of Brazil Focus, Georges Landau is a São Paulo
resident and managing director of Menas do Brasil Ltda. 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 the US government
agency OPIC. He is
fluent in Spanish, English, French, Portuguese, and Italian.
With long experience in the oil and petrochemicals industries, Antonio Recca has
worked for Esso, Houghton, Quaker Chemical, DAPSA, and Gulf Oil
International. He is fluent in English, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish, and
also has a
master's degree in administration.
Educated in Argentina and the United States, Carlos Regúnaga has
been in-house legal adviser and director of many different companies and banks.
He
is
also director of the Buenos Aires office of the influential Washington based
CSIS think-tank and president of the Club del Progreso, which is Argentina's
oldest
existing social and cultural club.
Based at King's College London, Richard Schofield is a world authority on
boundary
issues with a particular
focus on the Middle East, and has advised governments and leading international
law firms involved in boundary
disputes before arbitral proceedings and the International Court of Justice.
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