Simon is the founder of Foreign Brief who served as managing director from 2015 to 2021. A lawyer by training, Simon has worked as an analyst and adviser in the private sector and government. Simon’s desire to help clients understand global developments in a contextualised way underpinned the establishment of Foreign Brief. This aspiration remains the organisation’s driving principle.
The US is expected to hike tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese imports from 10% to 25% just after
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The leader of Libya’s UN-backed government, Fayez al-Sarraj, will meet France’s Emmanuel Macron in Paris today. On Tuesday, Mr Sarraj
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The US government will release data on the number of jobs added in April today—a key economic indicator that will
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The US will begin enforcing sanctions on all Iranian oil exports from today. While Iranian oil sanctions were reintroduced on
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Tens of thousands of Algerians will again take to the streets today to demand wholesale political reform almost a month
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Some 250 Afghan community and political leaders, including President Ashraf Ghani’s chief of staff and cabinet ministers, will hold talks
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The European Commission will today unveil a list of $20 billion worth of US products that could be targeted by
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After three decades of rule by Omar al-Bashir, Sudan wakes up today to an uncertain future. Incensed by increased costs
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Turkish Finance Minister Berat Albayrak will unveil economic reforms today in an effort to return the world’s 19th largest economy
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The US Labor Department will release its closely-watched jobs report for the month of March today. Economists forecast today’s data
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The House Judiciary Committee will today vote on whether Chairman Jerrold Nadler should be authorised to subpoena a complete version
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Thousands of protestors are expected to again take to the streets of Algiers today to demand democratic reform. Hundreds of
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Representatives from the IMF visit Tunisia today to review the $2.8 billion loan program that was agreed to in December
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Thousands of Algerians are expected to again take to the streets again today to call for wholesale political change. Protests
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Today, Kazakhs wake up to find their country being led by someone other than Nursultan Nazarbayev for the first time
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In the presence of US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the leaders of Greece, Israel and Cyprus will today sign
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Hungary’s ruling party, Fidesz, faces expulsion from the European People’s Party (EPP) when the group holds a secret ballot in
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British lawmakers will return to parliament for their third Brexit vote in three days today—this time to decide whether to
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Indian and Pakistani officials will meet in the northern Indian village of Attari today for technical discussions on the implementation
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Indian and American diplomats will hold talks in Washington DC today eight days after President Trump said he was revoking
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