Strategic Intelligence for 21st-Century MENA
What is Vizier
Vizier provides strategic intelligence on the landscape of power and industry across the Middle East and North Africa.
The 21st century has just begun. In 2025, MENA’s strategic position has taken on a new dimension as the emerging multipolar order has enabled political actors and states to act with greater autonomy. New supply chain integrations are being built, states are carving out regional niches, and the landscape is being reshaped for the first time by powers in the region instead of exclusively beyond it.
Vizier’s rigorous, no-nonsense analysis provides this explanatory power through strategic intelligence on the landscape of power and industry across MENA. Our scope covers political economy and development, statecraft, technology, and geopolitics. We publish research on political dynasties, bureaucratic factions, family conglomerates, state rivalries, and the rise of manufacturing hubs, data centres, capital flows, technology research & development, commodities, and beyond.
Who is Vizier
We are a small team of researchers and industry practitioners, including consultants, engineers, and data scientists. We seek to perform a public service by providing strategic intelligence that better informs public discourse and policymaking on MENA.
We are entirely independent and non-partisan. Our work is followed by foreign ministry officials, members of international organisations, investment firms, and the wider public.
What You Can Expect from Vizier
Every Wednesday, Vizier publishes a report on events in MENA:
The topics we publish range from Morocco’s automobile manufacturing industry, Turkiye’s military-industrial complex, the GCC’s capture of global financial flows, state-building efforts in Syria, and beyond.
If and how Syria rebuilds its state, economy, and society will be one of the most interesting development case studies of the 21st century. At Vizier, we are tracking Syria as an internal development case study, and part of that research will be made public.
Vizier publishes additional ad-hoc articles when our readers need to be informed.
