Red Sea & MENA · Consulting and Due Diligence
The Red Sea is the world's most consequential and contested crossroads.
We build bespoke “dream teams” of experts and data to solve your hardest problems in the Red Sea and MENA.
230+ regional specialists — former diplomats, master mariners, political analysts, bankers, climate scientists — coordinated by an analytical method and platform that contextualize their insight and apply it to your problem. 15 ambassadors. 56 PhDs. 8 languages.
Not a database of strangers — a network built outward from people who've spent their careers in the region.
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Our leads and experts don't just work the region first-hand. They wrote the books on it.
Diplomats, mariners, and economists first — published by Oxford, Brookings, Edinburgh, Palgrave, Routledge, and Polity, alongside the sector briefs we write ourselves. Libya to the Horn of Africa, Iraq to the Gulf, refugee protection to red-teaming.
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A partial selection — updated as our leads and experts publish. See the full roster →
Our Approach
We show you how we think.
Senior leads listen to your challenge, take the problem apart, and re-assemble it.
Stress-testing led by a small team of senior project leads with relevant experience — including one or more “perspective” experts: a red-teamer, a scenario planner, a specialist in identifying hidden biases. Each pulls at the problem from a different angle, surfacing the dimensions, and the blind spots, a single point of view often misses. The client is fully briefed, and asked for feedback and re-focus.
Experts matched to the reframe, by evidence.
Our agentic model Big Red reads the leads’ frames and recommendations and produces its own read on the problem, based on a wealth of vetted, region-specific open-source and proprietary data. With lead oversight, it then reads the collected work of our broader expert pool to identify the experts and teams most likely to produce direct, uncommon insight on your problem. Tailored questions are routed to the identified specialists along with supporting data and context, for review and evaluation.
Project leads and specialists work the problem.
Project leads further refine the expert pool based on review of their individual and collaborative replies, and ask the client to elaborate their expectations before a deeper analysis with the latest team iteration. The result is a detailed set of recommendations, an annotated and indexed library of relevant resources, and an exceptional, purpose-built team that is with you for the duration of the project — and available for future consultation.
And the engagement doesn't end at delivery — you're left with a team that has proven itself on your problem.
A manufacturer in the region lost access to a critical production input when the war closed its usual supply route. Red Sea Futures fielded five specialists working across four languages and delivered a sourcing strategy in three days.
5 experts · 3 days · 4 languages
Read the case study →
The same method runs weekly in public — read the Red Sea Brief and the Legal Letter →
Recent Testimonials
"Red Sea Futures managed — quickly — to obtain deeply relevant external stakeholder, competitor, and analyst perspectives on an existential organizational challenge. A rich scenario analysis that was both unique and immediately actionable."
"Unusually deep insight on a complex issue. Red Sea Futures did as promised — within days assembled a diverse and highly relevant group of subject matter experts who helped us validate and shape core arguments. The fixed-rate nature of the engagement was a welcome feature, and the estimated savings were not insignificant. We'll absolutely use them again."
"Like having a pop-up specialist division of 30 experts tailored to our project needs. The team moved quickly, worked together extremely well, and delivered recommendations we could act on."
Our Purpose
We build decision-making infrastructure for stability and integration in one of the world's most consequential regions — connecting those who must act with the expertise to act wisely.
We put renowned specialists — and the right data — to work on the region's hardest problems, assembling a bespoke “dream team” for each engagement: risk analysis, legal case preparation and expert testimony, investment due diligence, and content and panel design for conferences and events.