CAPABILITIES STATEMENT

Strategic advice & Design

  • Geo-political & Regional Risk Analysis & Monitoring

  • Country Risk Assessments

  • Due Diligence (community, regulatory, government)

  • Risk Mitigation & Stability Operations Design

  • Pre-travel & businesses risk assessments

Experienced at engaging directly with governments, ministers, Provincial and District Governors, tribal, religious and village leaders, military & police, INGOs, Embassies and multilateral organisations. 

Risk identification, evaluation and treatment is achieved through:

  • Going in early without pre-conceived positions.

  • A multilayered-contextual approach to understanding political, tribal, criminal or insurgent influences within a community.

  • Working by, with and through all layers of leadership.

  • Designing conditions-based, culturally relevant models that build reciprocal relationships and reduce risk.

  • Frank, relevant, timely & impartial communications to the Board, CEO and Senior Leadership team.

Execution, Operations & Training

  • Field-Based Risk Assessment (due diligence/early works/capital raising/insurance)

  • Implementation of Stability & Mitigation Strategy (link design with execution).

  • Monitoring & Evaluation (effects-based)

  • Travel security & kidnap prevention training.

Research interests

  • Challenges for projects located near porous international borders

  • Risk adaptation through a biological framework

  • Salafi-Jihadi inspired terrorism framed as asymmetric warfare

  • Bridging academic research & operational implementation in the field

  • Community-based stability solutions

Examples of Projects

Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline (all countries)

Tampakan Copper & Gold Project (Philippines)

Seconded to Philippine Special Forces Unit to assess Typhoon Yolanda damage (East Samar)

Rio Blanco Copper & Gold Project (Peru)

Sissingue Gold Project (Cote d’Ivoire & Southern Mali) 

Northern Iraq & Syria cross border assessment for delivering of international aid (Northern Iraq)

Southern Syria cross border assessment for delivery of international aid (Jordan)

Geo-political assessment gold opportunities (Burma)

Geo-political risk assessment for mining feasibility (Mexico)

Feasibility Assessment post-ADF withdrawal– DFAT Aid Program (Afghanistan)

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