Bello&Manchau

Bello & Manchau, Inc. (B&M) is the first and only political risk consultancy focusing exclusively on Africa. We help our clients navigate and manage the risk of doing business in Africa by closely monitoring and analyzing political, economic, security and social developments across the continent and forecasting their impact on a client’s bottom-line. Our pioneering AfriRisk Index© is a comparative country risk index modeled to monitor, measure, and forecast political, economic, social, and security risks unique to Africa, using both quantitative and qualitative data. At B&M, our unyielding focus on Africa enables us to be more thorough and efficient in our political risk research, analysis and forecasting than our competitors. We conduct our research on a continental, sub-regional,national, provincial, municipal, and industry level. We cover all 53 African countries individually and several African inter-governmental regional unions. We also monitor states/provinces and cities/municipalities for clients seeking highly localized micro analysis. B&M provides industry-specific political, economic, social and security risk research, monitoring, analysis and forecasting, focusing especially on sectors popular with international investors, including Precious Metals , Energy, Minerals & Other Metals, Agribusiness, Banking & Financial Services, Telecommunications, and Diamonds. Going beyond the initial point of market entry or expansion, B&M has field research analysts and on-the-ground monitors strategically positioned in several African countries to help our clients navigate and manage the day-to-day political, security and social risks of doing business on the ground. In addition to being experts on African history, politics and business, our research analysts have extensive professional experience, advanced degrees and sufficient language skills. We are currently based in Austin, TX and New York City.