The Island of Due Diligence
Mauritius should compete where trust has economic value - through documentation, reliability, institutional clarity and disciplined execution.
Managing Partner
Alexandre Rétif
Advises on institutional architecture, governance, risk, technology and digital finance.
Alexandre Rétif works at the point where strategy must become a governed operating system. His focus includes institutional design, risk management, digital banking, technology control and cross-border execution.
His work emphasises clear decision rights, evidence, operational realism and structures that remain intelligible to boards, regulators and management.
- Institutional architecture
- Risk management
- Digital finance
- Technology governance
Authored research
The Geneva Dividend: How WTO Rules Really Affect Mauritian SMEs
Trade rules matter when they can be converted into product, documentation, cost and market-entry decisions.
The Decade Not Yet Granted: AGOA 2026–2036 and the Mauritian Exporter
Preferential access creates an option. Competitiveness depends on origin, compliance, product choice, cost and delivery.
Friction Is the New Tariff: Mauritius and the Quiet Opportunity in the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement
The cost of trade increasingly sits in delay, uncertainty, duplication and incomplete institutional coordination.
Berbera Harbour: the money, the motive, and the risk nobody should airbrush
Ports are strategic systems in which capital, recognition, security, trade routes and political risk meet.
Mauritius After the Gulf Shock
A decision framework for logistics, liquidity and institutional coordination when external disruption reaches a small open economy.
Rebalancing the Republic: Electoral Reform Options for Mauritius
A governance-led comparison of electoral reform choices, trade-offs and implementation constraints.
Bahrain’s Energy Settlement
Institutional choices, energy systems and the governance of transition in a Gulf economy.