Meredith is an experienced strategic advisor to private market investors and lenders, senior government officials, corporates, and legal professionals on market entry and investment strategy, intelligence gathering, political and country risk, sanctions and foreign investment screening, and transaction due diligence.Prior to joining Control Risks, Meredith has had a diverse career in foreign policy, strategy consulting and business intelligence, including advising current and former senior government officials at the Council on Foreign Relations and the Clinton Foundation in the US, supporting public sector and institutional investor clients with McKinsey & Company in Saudi Arabia and the UAE, and helping a global client base navigate the Middle East and North Africa as head of the MENA practice for a business intelligence firm in the UK and in her own independent consulting ventures. Meredith has worked and traveled extensively throughout the MENA region and has lived in Lebanon, the UAE, Jordan and Egypt. She is a dual US-UK citizen, is fluent in Arabic and Persian, and has basic competency in French and Spanish. She holds degrees from Yale University and the University of Oxford.