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Greece

Athens, Attiki, Greece

Overseeing government advisory activities in Ukraine, Moldova, Albania, Greece and Serbia: staff management, project direction, quality control; government counterpart engagement; driving expansion in South and Eastern Europe: government reach out, project scoping, recruitment and team mobilisation;

Belgrade, Serbia

Management / oversight of projects. Selected projects:- Conducted steel suppliers analysis for new gas interconnector in the wake of Azovstal crisis, minimising risks of delays to key energy diversification project. - successfully argued against alignment with USG mandated Prague Proposals for diversity of telecom suppliers- provided analysis and recommendations on the sustainable exploitation of lithium

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Dubai

Founded and ran an international affairs advisory to senior decision-makers in GCC governments. Successfully competed for high profile assignments for centers governments in the Gulf, including in the development of bilateral relations between a Gulf country and China.

United Arab Emirates

Advised senior GCC government clients on economic affairs, national risk, international cooperation and public policy. Contributed to business development efforts with goverrnment counterparts, overseeing development of bids for a total in excess of USD 25m.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Leading consulting engagements for Asian and EMEA ICT regulators, telecom operators and investors. Selected projects:- on behalf of an integrated telecom operator in the Gulf, successfully argued against the liberalisation of submarine cable landing stations, in a report to a national security agency- on behalf of an integrated telecom operator in the Gulf, completed the commercial due diligence of a North African operator for its valuation and successful acquisition- conducted project management support for the build-out of a data centre in East Africa (passive infrastructure) - led the commercial due diligence of a mobile tower operator in an East Asian country prior to its acquisition- led the drafting of the first national broadband plan of a Gulf country

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Istanbul, Turkey

Broadband strategy for Telia’s operations in Central Asia

Kabul, Kabul Province, Afghanistan

Assessing opportunities for the expansion of Roshan’s cellular network and operation in new Afghan provinces (demand, competition, road network, backhaul infrastructure requirements, security situation)

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Management consultant in the telco industry. Sales, marketing, analytics and network roll-out projects in Sudan, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Morocco and South Africa.

Geneva, Switzerland

Participation in the development of MSCI's first High Dividend Yield Index (criteria definition and back-testing using SAS); Data cleaning;

Zurich, Switzerland

Master's thesis at the IBM Zurich Research Lab: Optimization of indoor location tracking using Kalmann filters on inertial measurement unit and bluetooth radio signals

Kyoto, Japan

Research on formal verification protocols for cryptography

Greater Bengaluru Area

Design of electronic boards for infrared wildlife photography. Testing of designs in Mudumalai and Bandipur tiger reserveshttps://cameratrap.tripod.com/index.htm

Master Of Science - Ms, Communication Systems Engineering

Post-Graduate Certificate, International Relations And Affairs

Executive Coaching, Business/Managerial Economics

Arabic, Arabic Language And Literature

Persian Language

Classes at the Dekhoda Lexicon Institute

Certificate In Terrorism Studies, Terrorism And Political Violence, Top 10% Of Cohort