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Istanbul, Türkiye

Tampa, Florida, United States

• Plan, execute, and evaluate cyberintelligence, cybersecurity, social media analysis, and security risk analysis operations.• Deliver strategic insights that help clients turn big data into mission-critical outcomes. • Produce actionable, predictive assessments from multi-sourced information. Serve as the primary and dual primary report writer.• Identify operational opportunities based on historic patterns, current trends, and new developments, including generative AI.• Brief senior stakeholders on crisis incidents, as well as on cybersecurity, geopolitical, and digital, social, and mobile media trends.• Provide continuous monitoring, expert analysis, and nuanced assessment of 3K+ sources of digital content used to influence populations. Additionally, evaluate and synthesize data from 200-300 indirect reports. • Lead cross-functional, large-scale efforts to identify, flag, and counter disinformation, misinformation, and computational propaganda.• Created automated scripts to parse, tag, and categorize 800K+ pieces of archived, multi-media propaganda; this project significantly enhanced data discoverability and analysis. • Using Pulse Analytics, mined multiple data sources, and captured analysis into custom-built business intelligence dashboards. • Identified and advised social media platforms on content moderation and malign actors’ evasion tactics. Mapped networks of bad actors across social media. • Evaluate social media discourse. Analyze dialect, hashtags, keywords, and syntax, as well as aliases, misnomers, and pseudonyms. Apply advanced cultural understanding, geo-political knowledge, linguistic fluency, and social awareness. Engage directly with audiences to influence behaviors, narratives, and perceptions.

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

• In coordination with the US Agency for International Development (USAID), managed $450M in Afghanistan-based development, education, infrastructure, and trade facilitation projects. • Helped facilitate the Afghanistan Trade and Revenue Project (ATAR), which promoted trade policy liberalization, regional trade integration, and customs reform. As a result of ATAR, Afghanistan joined the World Trade Organization (WTO); ratified the WTO’s Trade Facilitation Agreement; passed 20+ complex trade-related laws; negotiated multi-million dollar deals with international buyers; rolled out e-pay at major customs sites; and increased export-led growth initiatives.• Helped coordinate the PROMOTE: Women in Government project, a joint initiative of the US and Afghan governments that empowered 75K Afghan women to serve as political, business, and social leaders.• Liaised with Afghan field teams, US business councils, and Washington-based policy-makers.• Established field security protocols to mitigate potential risks in a high-threat environment.

Tampa, Florida, United States

• Successfully launched the SmallCakes Cupcakery & Creamery foodservice brand in the Middle East. • This expansion helped increase overall revenue by 83.33% YOY, and it led Business Insider to name SmallCakes 2015’s #3 fastest-growing food concept.• Directed brand’s launch in the Middle Eastern market. Oversaw store design, flavor profiles, and product production. Liaised between franchise headquarters and local investors to create a Gulf-specific brand. • Recruited investors, forecasted financials, coordinated marketing, and planned for franchise expansion. • Opened the UAE’s first 2 branches; achieved profitability within 8-10 months. • Expanded brand to Dubai, dramatically increasing sales. • Expanded brand to Saudi Arabia; in 2017, Saudi Arabian locations represented 16.7% of all new franchise openings.

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

• Provided strategic relations consulting, high-end business intelligence, and political risk management for international clients.• Helped develop an effective political strategy for a foreign client seeking US support for nascent Syrian political initiatives. Mapped political terrain based on competing sectarian and ideological interest groups. Used primary Arabic and English sources to prepare and track dossiers on individual activists and potential stakeholders.• Analyzed and forecasted the emerging political re-arrangement of mid-tier banking and financial stakeholders in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

• In the wake of the Arab Spring, collaborated with Dr. John Duke Anthony, Council President and CEO, to redesign the 20th Annual Arab-U.S. Policymakers Conference, “Dynamics of Recent Events in the Arab World: Framing the Arab and U.S. Responses.”• 1.2K+ key decision-makers attended, making it the largest-attended and most widely reported event in the conference’s history; C-SPAN provided real-time media coverage.• Helped secure 40 event sponsors, including 20+ Fortune 500 corporations, 10 international business and trade organizations, 9 Arab embassies, and the 22-member League of Arab States. • Helped secure 50+ speakers, including Dr. Abderrahim Foukara (Washington bureau chief for Al Jazeera) and Frank Anderson (president of the Middle East Policy Council and former CIA director for Afghanistan).• Plenary sessions discussed Iraq’s changes, Iran’s position and role in regional affairs, U.S.-Arab defense cooperation, the Palestinian future, the dynamics of energy demand and supply, and developments in North Africa, Yemen, and the Gulf Cooperation Council.

Houston, Texas, United States

• Drove Latin American sales for Hanwa, a $16.7B distributor of steel, metals, alloys, food, bunker fuel, and lumber worldwide. • Secured $41M steel contract for Museo Soumaya, which became Mexico’s most visited art museum (and the world’s 56th most visited art museum). • Generated sales throughout Mexico, Colombia, Guatemala, and Panama.

Master Of Arts - Ma, Arab Studies, Business And Economics, Energy, Economics, Finance & Politics

Certification: • International business diplomacy (IBD) Coursework: • Business investment in emerging markets • Corporate finance • Gulf.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, International Relations

Thesis: • "Sustainable Democratic Governance in the Arab World: the Case for Egypt" Coursework: • Third World Sustainable Development.