Matthew leads the firm’s geopolitical and country risk practice across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). He advises government-linked and private sector clients on assessing risks and opportunities and how to act on both.
He draws on more than 15 years of living and working across the Middle East, from the Gulf to North Africa to the Levant, to deliver expert insight, intelligence and advisory services to organisations in the region and to those entering it for the first time.
Clients seek Matthew's expertise to support strategic decisions about global portfolios and navigate the region's changing political and security dynamics that could affect their people, assets and business.
Recent engagements include:
- Leading geopolitical risk advisory retainers for major Gulf state-owned enterprises (SOEs), supporting strategic decision-making through forecasting and scenario analysis, country risk intelligence and regular monitoring of portfolio risk exposure
- Supporting international companies operating across MENA to assess new markets and opportunities while mitigating risks
- Designing and implementing in-house geopolitical, security and travel risk monitoring solutions for several clients in the Gulf and globally
Matthew holds a BA in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies from Cambridge University and an MA in Arabic and Islamic Studies from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a Thouron Scholar. He speaks Arabic.