“The Middle East faces new challenges and opportunities, with the Gulf countries leveraging new powers of energy and capital to accelerate economic development and influence the global agenda.”
Dominic Asquith
Partner
Dominic heads our UK Practice and our work advising clients on India, the Middle East and North Africa. He was formerly British ambassador to Iraq, Egypt and Libya, and high commissioner to India.
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Founding Partner & CEO
Nader co-founded Macro Advisory Partners in 2013 and leads engagements across our entire portfolio of clients.
Dominic Asquith
Partner
Dominic heads our UK Practice and our work advising clients on India, the Middle East and North Africa. He was formerly British ambassador to Iraq, Egypt and Libya, and high commissioner to India.
Meghan L. O’Sullivan
Partner
Meghan provides strategic counsel on geopolitics and the energy transition. She is director of the Belfer Center and the Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of the Practice of International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School. She was previously a deputy national security advisor to President George W. Bush.
Ian Patrick
Partner
Ian leads senior client engagements across a number of sectors and territories. He has spent the last 20 years advising corporate and government leaders on geopolitics and national and regional security issues.
Steffen Hertog
Senior Advisor
Steffen specialises in the comparative political economy of the Middle East and North Africa, with a focus on the Gulf. He is associate professor in comparative politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Elhadj As Sy
Senior Advisor
As focuses on global public health. He is co-chair of the WHO/World Bank Global Pandemic Preparedness Monitoring Board. He was previously the secretary-general of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.
Vali Nasr
Advisory Board Member
Vali is the former dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He is a member of the US Department of State’s foreign affairs policy board and director of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.
Our Impact | Middle East
Advising a global industrial client on its operations and investments in Saudi Arabia
Over a number of years we have advised a US-headquartered global industrial client on its operations and investments in Saudi Arabia, focusing on the local environment and domestic politics that might impact the durability of its operations and the international drivers (particularly US-Middle East relationships and US domestic politics) that could impact the stability of its investment.