Byblos Research
& Advisory
Sovereign architecture for small states at institutional design moments.
Sovereign architecture for small states at institutional design moments.
Byblos Research & Advisory works with governments and institutions at moments of institutional design: resource windfalls, donor surges, geopolitical inflections, free zone launches, and post-conflict reconstruction. The firm combines legislative drafting, fiscal and sovereign wealth design, and economic zone frameworks into complete deliverables, rather than the disaggregated templates produced by larger advisory firms. Byblos also serves institutional and private clients on bespoke research, feasibility, and structuring mandates.
Sovereign engagements·Legislative drafting·Sovereign wealth fund design·Fiscal framework architecture·Free zone and SEZ design·Donor coordination
Institutional and private engagements·Bespoke research·Feasibility studies·Structuring and policy advisory
Featured Engagement
A pro bono engagement, 2025–2026. Twenty-four legislative instruments across two parallel implementation tracks, released as a public archive under CC-BY 4.0 for the benefit of other small-state development efforts.
Active research coverage:São Tomé and Príncipe·Timor-Leste·Suriname·Mauritania·Gabon·Mongolia
Founder
Sam Kovacs is a Franco-British macro systems thinker. He founded Byblos Research & Advisory in 2025 to consolidate his sovereign and institutional research work.
He holds a BBA from HEC Montréal and an MSc in Economics from Sciences Po Paris.
Read more at sam-kovacs.com.
