Menas Asia Pte Ltd
Menas Asia Pte Ltd
111 North Bridge Road
#27-01/02 Peninsular Plaza
Singapore 179098
T: (65) 6389 3980
F: (65) 6389 3981
E: andrew.symon@menas.co.uk
Directors
Andrew Symon, managing director
Dr Charles Gurdon, director
Andrew Symon, managing director
A focus of Andrew's work is the energy, mining/natural resources and
infrastructure sectors as well as analysis of more general political, economic, and
social issues and conditions in Asia concerning and affecting both business
planning and government policy.
Andrew, who is an Australian citizen currently based in Singapore, has been
living in Asia since 1992 employed as a consultant & researcher for both
business planning and public sector/public policy projects, and as a journalist
managing and writing for various publications. He was based in Jakarta from 1992
to 1997.
In Australia, he has worked in government at state and federal levels, in the
national parliament in Canberra on a senator's staff, and in print and radio
journalism.
Andrew has a first degree in history and a second in economics from the
University of Adelaide. He was a recipient of Australian government journalist
scholarships to research and write in Japan (1984) and in Indonesia (1992).
From 2003 to early 2006, he was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of
Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) at the National University of Singapore, where
he completed a book about energy sector development and government policy in
Southeast Asia, Fuelling Southeast Asia's Growth: the Energy Challenge.
Since 1996, he has also been an associate of the South Australian Centre for
Economic Studies, a joint research and consultancy arm of the University of
Adelaide and Flinders University in South Australia.
Andrew is a Bahasa Indonesia / Malay speaker.
andrew.symon@menas.co.uk
Dr Charles Gurdon, director
Charles Gurdon joined Menas Services Ltd in 1980 as a senior researcher on
international border disputes and other arbitration cases. In 1988, when the
company diversified into consultancy work for corporate clients and newsletter
publishing, Charles helped found the Menas Associates subsidiary and became its
managing director. Since then he has run the company's consultancy portfolio and
publication stable, and oversaw the restructuring of the Menas group which saw
Menas Associates become the group's parent company.
Charles holds a B.A. (Hons.) Economics & Geography, M.Sc. (with
distinction) and Ph.D. from the University of London's School of Oriental & African
Studies (SOAS) where he specialised in the Middle East and Africa.
He is also the author of two books and numerous reports on Sudan and, before
time constraints made it impossible, he was a regular commentator on radio and
an occasional one on TV.
charles.gurdon@menas.co.uk
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