Senior corporate affairs and international relations adviser to investors, governments and commercial organisations across the GCC, the UK and Europe.
Riyadh · London · Dubai
Who I work with
Principals and leadership teams at sovereign-linked entities, sports and entertainment organisations, financial institutions, technology businesses, and the firms that advise them. Work typically combines positioning, stakeholder relations, governance, and the management of risk.
Nearly fifteen years advising senior teams at globally significant institutions, in London, Riyadh and Dubai.
What I do
- International relations and public affairs - government engagement, policy, and cross-border market navigation.
- Strategic positioning - communications, announcements, brand, integrated campaigns.
- Stakeholder engagement - mapping and managing government, regulators, investors, media, and commercial counterparts.
- Partnerships and commercial - identifying, structuring and announcing strategic transactions.
- Governance - owner-entity frameworks, operating-model design, professionalisation.
- Risk and issues - crisis preparedness, narrative control, sensitive matters.
Most engagements involve more than one of these at once.
The parts of a programme that rely on relationships, judgement and the long-term management of reputation.
Selected engagements
Recent and representative work, anonymised.
Embedded inside a sovereign-wealth-fund-backed football project, supporting senior club leadership on governance, announcements, partnerships and international positioning.
Public-sector engagement and policy strategy for a Fortune 500 technology business, including European market access into the Netherlands and Finland, and work on UK government COVID-19 support programmes.
International media positioning and partnership announcements for a sovereign-linked games and entertainment business in the Gulf.
European financial services public affairs and reputation programmes for blue-chip banking, insurance and capital markets clients.
Public affairs mandates for the Premier League and a regulated gaming business, driving awareness and sentiment with people who matter.
About
Trained in financial services public affairs in London during UK withdrawal from the European Union. Four years inside Accenture, government relations for UK and European public-sector and technology. Latterly with Consulum in Riyadh and Dubai, on sovereign and government-linked programmes connected to Vision 2030. Now independent.