Cross-border Information (CbI) is an Africa and Middle East-focused consultant and publisher active in risk analysis and primary infrastructure sectors. The company has full-time staff in London and Hastings, and a network of correspondents and associates currently active in over 49 countries throughout Africa and the Middle East. We provide clients with bespoke information, insight and analysis through our business intelligence services and through African Energy – a CbI brand consultancy and provider of independent expert analysis of emerging energy trends and political risk issues – and Gulf States News (GSN). Data collection and analysis is central to our work. CbI Meetings pairs CbI’s extensive regional expertise and source network with an events team boasting more than a decade of experience in producing high-level investment forums and dialogues across the African continent. In 2014 we created the Africa Investment Exchange, a series of international meetings for leading investors in Africa’s high growth industries.