Strategy, international development and capacity-building consultant with a PhD in Management and 14+ years' experience advising governments, international organisations, foundations and private investors across the Middle East, Africa and Europe.

Core expertise: institutional and governance benchmarking, policy and regulatory analysis, market and sector research, feasibility and business case development, and entrepreneurship capacity building. Track record spans commodity exchange governance (Egyptian Mercantile Exchange), sovereign wealth fund and endowment foundation benchmarking (Saudi Arabia), central bank regulatory reform (Central Bank of Sudan/AFI microfinance framework), nonprofit and Hajj/Umrah sector development (Saudi Arabia), and ICT/green hydrogen investment research (Clingendael Institute, Netherlands).

Delivers full research-to-recommendation cycles: comparative benchmarking matrices, governance and institutional diagnostics, market and stakeholder assessments, and evidence-based policy and strategy recommendations for executive decision-making. Experienced in entrepreneurship programme design, incubation/acceleration curricula and mentoring frameworks (Cultiv LLC), and in donor proposal development, concept notes and tender submissions for EU-, EBRD- and AFD-funded technical assistance (North South Consultants Exchange).

Native Arabic speaker with fluent English, including professional Arabic-English technical and legal translation (regulatory frameworks, infrastructure proposals). Combines consulting practice with academic teaching in entrepreneurship, leadership and research methods (ESLSCA University MBA programme, British University in Egypt, University of Padova, Birkbeck University of London), bringing structured research rigour to applied advisory work.

Comfortable working independently or within multidisciplinary consulting teams, coordinating workplans, Terms of Reference and stakeholder workshops, and consolidating multi-expert inputs into client-ready deliverables. Available for short-term, fast-turnaround assignments: benchmarking studies, desk research, feasibility inputs, policy briefs and technical translation, typically delivered within 2-6 weeks.