Adel Hamaizia

Adel Hamaizia is the Managing Director at Highbridge Advisory, a strategic boutique advisory focused on information advantage, risk mitigation, policy development and implementation for companies and governments working in the Middle East, the Balkans, and Africa (MEBA). Highbridge Advisory also supports capital-raising initiatives and connects strategic investors with exceptional opportunities for growth. Adel is a Senior Advisor at the Milken Institute. He is also a fellow at the Belfer Center’s Middle East Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School, and a Senior Visiting Fellow at Harvard’s Public Impact Analytics Lab.

Previously, Adel served as a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council and as an associate fellow at the Chatham House MENA programme. He also served as Committee Vice-Chairman of the Oxford Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies Forum (OxGAPS) where he was the co-founder and the co-editor of OxGAPS’ thematic-quarterly, “Gulf Affairs”.

Adel has provided commentary for a range of media outlets including the New York Times, the Financial Times, the Economist, the Wall Street Journal, and Reuters.

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