Managing Partners

Dr. Anton Ivanov
Anton is a Partner in INCAS Consulting and Director of the FEWER-Eurasia Foundation in Moscow. As a consultant, he worked with Shell, BP, TNK-BP, UK and Russian governments as well as intergovernmental organisations on a range of projects such as reputation management and external stakeholder engagement in business, reconstruction and development analysis in the government sector, and community engagement and grassroots dialogue for conflict prevention in the nongovernmental sector. Anton received his PhD in social anthropology from IEA-RAS in 1996.

In the past seven years Anton has been involved in organising multi-stakeholder consultations aimed at political settlement of the conflict in Chechnya. This work is carried forward through a humanitarian dialogue process on human security in Chechnya. He has also contributed to building and operating an independent monitoring and early warning system for the Caucasus region operated by FEWER-Eurasia and swisspeace/FAST International.

David Nyheim
David is an established professional in the fields of conflict analysis, early warning, multi-stakeholder facilitation processes, and conflict prevention strategy formulation. He is the Chief Executive of INCAS Consulting. He served for six years as the Director of the Forum for Early Warning and Early Response (FEWER) until 2003. During that period he worked extensively on early warning and preventive action in Africa (Great Lakes Region and West Africa) and the Caucasus. David has also held several policy and research positions in the European Commission and universities (Belgium and United Kingdom). As a consultant, David has worked for governments, United Nations agencies, and corporations in the North Caucasus, West Africa, South and Southeast Asia, and the Pacific. He has published on a range of issues, including early warning, human rights, and conflict-sensitive development.

Tom Porteous
Tom is a foreign policy analyst and journalist. Prior to co-founding INCAS Consulting, he served as the head of the Pan Africa Policy Unit and Conflict Management Adviser in the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office until June 2003. He has experience in political analysis and policy/strategy design in areas related to conflict and instability, including early warning, humanitarian intervention, peace-building, security sector reform, and post conflict-reconstruction. He has a background both in UN peacekeeping operations and in reporting disasters and conflicts for the international media (BBC). He has worked and lived extensively in the Middle East and Africa. He has a training in classics (Oxford) and his recent publications cover conflict and foreign policy.