Geopolitical Strategist · CEO, Ensah Advisory Partners
Syga Thomas is a former U.S. diplomat and economist. He helps investors, boards and newsrooms read political shocks across the Middle East, Africa and Europe, and judge what they mean for capital.
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2007–2015
U.S. Diplomatic Service
5 postings
South Korea, Niger, Pakistan, Spain, Washington
Johns Hopkins SAIS
MA, International Economics
Since 2016
Founder, Ensah Advisory Partners
On air
Joining Joumanna Bercetche and Jennifer Zabasajja on Horizons Middle East & Africa to read Trump’s return: tariffs that Biden kept and expanded, and the pressure on Kyiv to concede territory.
Recent commentary
Bloomberg Television
Horizons Middle East & Africa
After Assad’s fall: why HTS’s terrorist-list status complicates recognition and capital, and why the Gulf will be pulled into Syria’s reconstruction.
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CNBC International
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What he brings
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Elections, wars and regime change turned into scenarios with timelines, triggers and the market channels they move through: energy, rates, currencies and trade.
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A working focus on the Middle East, North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa, informed by postings from Niger to Pakistan, where coverage is thinnest and mispricing most likely.
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More than eight years in the U.S. Diplomatic Service means reading Washington, European capitals and the Gulf as institutions with incentives, not as headlines.
Who he works with
Engagements are typically delivered through Ensah Advisory Partners, the advisory firm he founded in 2016.
Scenario briefings ahead of elections, sanctions and conflict escalation, framed around portfolio exposure.
Market-entry and country-risk perspective for decisions in the Middle East, Africa and Europe.
Live and recorded analysis on breaking geopolitical stories, delivered clearly and on deadline.
Keynotes and moderated sessions on geopolitics, global markets and the decade ahead.
Briefings drawing on diplomatic experience in trade policy and transatlantic relations.
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