The forged document
A fabricated memo, analyst report or due-diligence finding surfaces days before a vote or a closing.
Académie NexusAcadémie Nexus, Paris · For leadership offices in the Gulf
Compromised.
We all think it will not happen to us, until it does. When the information that reaches a leadership office has been manipulated, every decision built on it is at risk. We help leadership teams verify, decide and respond, in English, French or Arabic.
A French executive education institution in Paris, Qualiopi-certified. Grounded in doctoral research on foreign information manipulation.
The exposure
What targets a leadership decision
The synthetic instruction
A video call or voice note from a senior executive authorises a payment or a change of terms.
The deal framed abroad
A cross-border investment is presented as a political act, to push a regulator or public opinion to block it.
The cloned media
A fake article on a copy of a respected outlet attributes statements to your leadership.
We usually trust what we believe to be true, even when it is not.
How we work
Three engagements, one aim: decisions that hold
Private briefing
A confidential conversation with our Academic Director on the scenarios most relevant to your organisation, and the questions your office should be able to answer.
Executive workshop
A preparatory interview, a scenario adapted to your sector, a working session and a debrief. You leave with a verification grid, an escalation protocol and a short list of priorities.
Leadership programme
A two-day masterclass followed by decision drills through the year, so that the procedures stay alive when people and threats change.
Engagements are scoped and quoted after a first conversation. We do not present a workshop as an audit: we examine your procedures only when you ask us to.
What your team keeps
Keep your confidence, sharpen your discernment
- An out-of-band verification rule for any instruction received by video, voice or messaging app
- Named decision rights: who can pause a sensitive decision when a key input is in doubt
- A written escalation path from the first doubt to a decision, with deadlines in hours
- A monitoring brief covering what is said about you in English, French and Arabic
- A decision drill your leadership can repeat
The foundations
What the research shows, and what it does not
- 21 documented foreign influence campaigns reconstructed and coded with the DISARM framework: the same techniques return, from cloned media to fabricated experts and AI-generated content.
- The Epistemic Security Score, a proposed index of structural resilience to information manipulation, tested on European countries.
- A pre-registered randomised trial (502 participants, 358 in the confirmatory analysis): a short awareness video produced no statistically significant reduction in the credibility given to manipulated content. It does not prove that awareness never works, nor that procedures do. It is a reason not to rely on a single briefing.
Academic Director
Elie Abousaab, PhD
Elie Abousaab directs the executive programme in epistemic security and is the author of the Epistemic Security Score. His doctoral research (CEDS, Paris, summa cum laude) studies how foreign influence operations work and how organisations can resist them.
Before research, he spent twenty years in communication in Europe and the Middle East. He holds an Executive MBA from ESCP Business School and works in English, French and Arabic.
Terms
Discretion first
- Confidential sessions, in English, French or Arabic
- In your offices in the Gulf, or in Paris
- Scenarios built from documented techniques, never from claims about your organisation
- Qualiopi-certified executive education (the certification covers training actions)
Académie Nexus
231 rue Saint-Honoré, 75001 Paris, France
Executive brief · AN/DR/2026/01
Compromised: how influence operations reach the decision room.
Six documented operations against leadership decisions, each with its published source and the early signal that gives it away; what the research shows and what it does not; five control points for a leadership office. The download link arrives by email.
Private briefing
Arrange a private briefing for your office.
Write to our Executive Programmes Office. We reply within two working days.