Professional Summary
I am a strategic foresight advisor and sociological researcher with 17 years' consulting experience in the Middle East's emerging technology, advanced sciences, energy and public sector innovation spaces. I combine my management consulting background with strategic foresight methodologies and sociological training to navigate complex, ambiguous futures for organizations and societies.
My perspective on technology's role in shaping our world challenges the premises of technological innovation and its relationship to power, agency, and collective well-being: technology is not a neutral tool, but a deeply social phenomenon embedded in complex historical, cultural, and institutional contexts. Currently, I am a PhD Candidate in Sociology at George Mason University, exploring the democratization of digital resources (data and infrastructure) to build community wealth.
PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE
George Mason University | Fairfax, VA
Researcher | 08/2021 – present
Researcher, Next System Studies at Center for Social Science Research (2022 - Present): Project Manager, Digital Commonwealth Project .
Program Coordinator, Arlington Fellows Programs (2023-2024): Instructor, GLOA 495 / GOVT 496 – Global Politics Fellows Internship .
Graduate Teaching Assistant (Spring 2022): Digital Technologies, Knowledge Production and Society .
Graduate Research Assistant (2021–2022): Institute for Immigration Research .
tenten100 (Qahwa Management Consulting) | Dubai, UAE
Founder and Managing Director | 11/2015 – present
Strategic foresight advisor on public sector innovation.
tenten100's focus currently is on the broader digital economy, with particular attention to telecommunications, internet, and media.
Global Electric Vehicle Road Trip (EVRT) | Dubai, UAE
Strategy Director | 06/2016 – 06/2017
EVRT (now Vuka Mobility) is an events start-up accelerating electric vehicle adoption.
My remit included business set-up, concept creation, UAE country management, strategy and communications.
Tetra Tech | Dubai, UAE
Principal | 08/2012 – 07/2015
Tetra Tech is a global, NASDAQ listed engineering and consulting firm, focused on the Energy, Water, Environment and Public Infrastructure sectors.
I worked with the management consulting division, advising energy sector investors, operators and regulators in the MENA region.
TCO Management Consulting | Dubai, UAE
Consultant | 06/2008 – 06/2012
TCO was a start-up incubated by Dubai Government, focused on delivering advisory services (strategy and policy, performance, capability development) to Middle East public sector institutions and state-owned organizations.
I worked in the Economy practice: strategic challenges to national competitiveness.
The Executive Council, Government of Dubai | Dubai, UAE
Analyst | 12/2007 – 06/2008
TEC functions as a classical Cabinet Office, setting the strategy and sector priorities for Dubai Government entities.
I worked on institutional reforms in the Health and Social Development sectors.
Presentation
Workshop on Popular Constitutionalism Beyond the Nation State at Law & Society Association Annual Meeting, June 2024: "Digital Constitutionalism and the Constitutive Powers of Digital Technology."
Under Final Review
Front. Sociol. 10:1362848.
doi: 10.3389/fsoc.2025.1362848
Full Paper - May 2022
Computational Social Science research produced for the Institute for Immigration Research (2021-2022): "Understanding Voluntary Migration Decision-Making and Consequences with Agent Based Modelling: Computing migration between Asia and North America as a complex social, cognitive and planned behavior."
My Substack - a writing project alongside my dissertation work titled Open Wafers