About

Who We Are

The global advisory market has a structural blind spot in the Middle East, East Africa, and Sub-Saharan Africa. The firms with the deepest pockets have the shallowest regional roots. Firms with real regional roots rarely operate at the strategic altitude clients need.

The result? Advice that is either rigorous but hollow, or rich but unscalable.

Takoma International was built to close that gap—permanently.

We are an elite advisory firm organized around one conviction

The Middle East, the Horn of Africa, and Sub-Saharan Africa are not a subset of emerging markets. They form a distinct strategic theater—shaped by their own power structures, institutional logic, and decision-making cultures—that demands insider-level expertise.

We bring the intellectual rigor of a global firm with the operational agility of a boutique. We do not fly in and out. And we do not recycle frameworks built for Frankfurt and apply them to Khartoum.

“Takoma International Consultancy Group (TICG): To be the trusted foresight partner for the institutions shaping tomorrow — empowering businesses, governments, and communities to anticipate risk, seize opportunity, and lead with clarity in an uncertain world.”

Our Values

Care and Respect

TICG treats each one with care and respect.

Excellence

TICG delivers with excellence.

Quality

Quality is non-negotiable for TICG.

Integrity

Integrity is the major factors that drive our actions in TICG.

What We Do

Most advisory firms offer one capability and subcontract the rest. Takoma delivers four—as a single, structurally connected discipline.

Strategic Planning

Blueprints built from the ground up for the region’s political, regulatory, and institutional realities. Not portable templates.

Strategic Intelligence and Geopolitical Risk Advisory

Real-time pressure-testing of strategy against volatility. We translate shifting power dynamics into decisions leadership can act on—before the situation forces their hand.

Strategic City Profiling

Granular, street-level intelligence for donors, investors, and governments. The urban reality where capital is deployed—and where a plan either becomes an outcome or does not

The Global Knowledge Bridge Initiative

Capability transfer that outlasts the engagement. We connect institutions with practitioner expertise so they can stand on their own after we leave.

Strategy without intelligence is exposed.
Intelligence without execution is theoretical.
Execution without stability is temporary.
Stability without institutional capability is borrowed time.

Takoma addresses all four.

Our Credibility

Our leadership brings over 20 years of advisory experience across MENA, East Africa, and Sub-Saharan Africa.
We have worked directly with governments, multilateral institutions, and global firms in the region’s most complex environments. We have delivered board-level strategic counsel across the United States, MENA, and Africa—driving institutional modernization where most advisors would not know where to begin.
We have built institutional-level connections among Middle Eastern, European, and U.S. security policy communities at the highest levels.

This record is not built on conference-room analysis.

It is built on having personally sat inside the institutions we now advise—navigating the daily reality of governance in fragile, fast-moving states, building relationships that produce signal before it enters any open-source feed, and earning the trust of decision-makers who do not extend it to fly-in, fly-out analysts.