Research & Consultancy

Focus

I focus on understanding institutional settings and their complexities and their dynamics. Bespoke customized research uses open source information and a variety of qualitative and quantitative methodologies. When we cannot do it ourselves, we have a strong network to fall back on.

Past Projects and Research Themes

  • Market research and strategic assessments
  • Due diligence on individuals, corporates and institutions.
  • Monitoring media and assessing complex texts.
  • Research projects on markets, actors and the terrain in continental Europe, the Middle East, and beyond.
  • Labour market policies and conditions in the Arabian Gulf countries.
  • International and transnational entrepreneurship
  • Migrant entrepreneurship
  • Business and the political economy of the MENA region
  • Regulatory reform in the MENA region

Memberships

Academy of International Business (AIB), Ann Arbor, Michigan

 

Qualifications

  • PhD in Financial and Management Studies (SOAS, University of London)
  • MSc in International Management (SOAS, University of London, 2004)