Anna Boyd Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

London, England, United Kingdom

Helping clients anticipate and manage geopolitical and macroeconomic risk with integrated solutions tailored to their business. Developing client-specific geopolitical scenarios that integrate expert insight and wide-ranging data across politics, economics and global trade.

Consultant/ editor/ writer on MENA affairs; Arabic translation.

London, United Kingdom

Leading on MENA-related litigation support, asset tracing, due diligence investigations, fraud investigations and political and reputational risk assessmentDeveloping networks of contacts across MENA region to provide unique insight Providing bespoke business information services to assist market entry and to support ongoing projectsAdvising on risks in complex jurisdictions across the MENA region

London, United Kingdom

Client-facing role advising customers on risks to assets and personnel across a range of industries operating in the MENA region (energy, media, government, commodities, insurance, supply chain, etc.)Producing regular bulletins as well as bespoke client work including counter-party assessments, due diligence, contract and non-payment risk assessments, and country and sector risk overviews.Research and source development trips to the region; regular media interviews and public speaking.Managing the integration of former Exclusive Analysis employees and processes post-acquisition by IHS; promoting Country Risk capabilities both externally in support of business development, and internally within IHS.Projects have included: Analysis of legal, reputational and security risks facing renewable and conventional energy firms investing in Western SaharaCounter party assessment of a Damascus-based business partner for a multinational firmAssessment of the creditworthiness of a major Israeli conglomerateInfluence mapping of decision makers in the Moroccan auto industryScenarios for presidential succession in Algeria and potential impact on the hydrocarbons industry

London, United Kingdom

Project manager and lead editor/analyst on a number of major projects including country entry reports for Algeria, Bangladesh and Morocco, involving country visits and on-the-ground source development.Crisis team manager December 2010 - February 2011 during the Arab uprisings; responsible for managing and collating social media, source, and analytical inputs to provide rolling scenario and forecast updates across the MENA region. Client manager for over 100 individual user accounts in a variety of sectors (energy, media, government, commodities, insurance, supply chain, etc). Responsible for managing renewals, upsells and handling client queries.Lead editor on a number of client products including weekly corporate security bulletin and global risk forecasts, and daily intelligence bulletins.Media appearances and public speaking (including Al Jazeera, Reuters, BBC) on a range of topics relating to business risk.Also Head of Global Jihad Analysis: lead analyst on Islamist terrorism and political activism; coordinating team of multilingual analysts to track Islamist activity and forecast its impact on business risk.

London, United Kingdom

Arabic-English and English-Arabic written translation of political, security and technical material.Consecutive interpreting Arabic-English and English-Arabic for senior delegations. Managing machine translation pilot project in liaison with US counterparts.A two week posting to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

London, United Kingdom

Client-facing role advising customers on risks to assets and personnel in the MENA region across a range of industries (energy, media, government, commodities, insurance, supply chain, etc).

London, United Kingdom

Office assistant in a non-profit organisation focusing on supporting educational development in Ghana, Uganda, Malawi and Ethiopia. Administration for a number of aspects of Link's work, including fundraising initiatives such as the London-Morocco hitch, maintaining and updating the fundraiser database and conducting mailshots.

Cairo

Transcribing interviews with CEOs of prominent Egyptian companies for an Egypt investment supplement in the New York Times.

Ma, Arabic, Distinction

Activities and Societies: Poetry Translation Centre

Ma, Arabic, 1St Class Honours

Arabic Summer Course (Advanced Level)

Arabic 6 Month Course (Intermediate)

Education record

Short Course, Arabic-English And English-Arabic Interpreting