Biography
Paul Melly is a journalist focusing on development, politics and business issues in Africa and the Middle East, contributing to Africa Confidential, MEED, the EIU and Oxford Analytica.
He takes a special interest in francophone Africa and Madagascar, and has written on the Sahel the EU Institute for Security Studies.
Paul also reports on banking, political risk and development finance.
Past experience
2000 - date | Editor, then Senior Contributing Editor, Gulf States Newsletter |
1993 - 2000 | Assistant Editor, Africa Analysis |
1989 - date | Country report author, various francophone African states, Economist Intelligence Unit |
1986 - date | Freelance contributor to Africa Confidential, the Africa Report, the Globe and Mail, Oxford Analytica, Writenet Africa reports, MEED etc |