Menas Borders Ltd
16/19 Southampton Place
London WC1A 2AJ,
United Kingdom
+44 (0)20 7745 7190 tel
+44 (0)20 7745 7190 fax
info@menasborders.com email
Tom Blass, Co. Managing Director, tom.blass@menasborders.com
Suki Jobson, Co. Managing Director, suki.jobson@menasborders.com
Richard Schofield, Senior Advisor, richard.schofield@menasborders.com
Menas Borders is a confidential source of advice for individuals, companies, and
institutions that need to understand difficult territorial issues both on- and
offshore. We take a multidisciplinary approach to boundaries, working closely
with lawyers, cartographers, geologists, anthropologists, historians, and
archivists.
Personnel
Tom Blass, Co. Managing Director, has an academic background in anthropology, law and
geopoitics. Tom has
extensive journalistic experience prior to joining Menas, writing on the law
and
business, the energy industry, human rights, finance and politics. Particular
areas
of interest include Kurdish issues and the Balkans.
Suki Jobson, Co. Managing Director, is an experienced archival and cartographic researcher
whose areas of expertise
include hydropolitics, territorial disputes and trans-boundary resource issues.
Suki's work has included research for public international law cases involving
the
ongoing legal settlement and resolution of international boundary disputes.
Richard Schofield, senior advisor, is a political geographer specialising in boundary questions
with a particular
focus on the Middle East, who has written extensively for both academic and lay
readerships on related matters. He has advised governments on territorial
issues
and has worked with leading international law firms involved in boundary
disputes before arbitral proceedings and the International Court of Justice.
Richard
has
been convening a master's programme on international boundary studies since the
mid-1990s, first at SOAS and offered now at King's College, London as the MA in
Geopolitics, Territory and Security and has supervised extensive doctoral
research
into the geopolitics of the developing world. He is also the founding editor
of
the journal Geopolitics.
Charles Gurdon who is the managing director of Menas Associates, spent over ten years as a
senior researcher on all of the international boundary disputes in which Menas
was
engaged. He has personally undertaken and/or has managed multi-disciplinary
research teams working on archival, cartographic, geographical and historical
research in most of the European and Ottoman archives
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