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Nicolas Michelon is Managing Partner at Alagan.Partners. He advises multinational companies, institutional investors and family offices on geopolitical & geoeconomic risk, supply chain resilience, strategic foresight and tech startup investment in the GCC, Asia-Pacific, Türkiye and Europe. He is also a Business Partner at Alagan.Tech Solutions, an Istanbul-based sustainability and mobility solutions advisory firm.
Based in Dubai, Nicolas has worked for 15 years in Hong Kong, Singapore and Japan as an economist (French Ministry of Finance, seconded to the Consulate General of France in Hong Kong), financial analyst (KPMG in Hong Kong), portfolio manager (Schroders in Singapore) and more recently as a corporate geoeconomics and strategic intelligence consultant specialized in the Global South.
Regularly featured on Arabian Business in the UAE, Ekotürk in Türkiye and a conference speaker and panelist (Horasis, SuperReturn Middle East, Gulfood Manufacturing – Foodtech Summit, TRENDS Research & Advisory, TRT Global Forum…), he is also an Adjunct Professor & Guest Lecturer in geopolitics, geoeconomics and strategic intelligence at ESCP Business School (Paris), Galatasaray University (Istanbul), University Mohammed VI Polytechnic (Rabat), the International University of Monaco, and the Paris School of Economic Warfare, and a member of the International Consortium for the Study of Economic Leverage in Peace and Conflict (ICEL) coordinated by King’s College London.