Adel Hamaizia is the Managing Director at Highbridge Advisory, a strategic boutique advisory focused on information advantage, risk mitigation, policy development and implementation for companies and governments working in the Middle East, the Balkans, and Africa (MEBA). Highbridge Advisory also supports capital-raising initiatives and connects strategic investors with exceptional opportunities for growth. Adel is a research fellow at the Belfer Center’s Middle East Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School. He is currently a Senior Advisor at the Milken Institute, and a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Scowcroft Middle East Security Initiative at the Atlantic Council’s Middle East programs. Adel was previously an associate fellow at the Chatham House MENA programme, and formerly the Committee Vice-Chairman of the Oxford Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies Forum (OxGAPS) where he was the co-founder and the co-editor of OxGAPS’ thematic-quarterly, “Gulf Affairs”. He regularly convenes and contributes to track 1.5 and 2 meetings and is engaged in a range of volunteering activities related to employability and entrepreneurship skills training for students across the Middle East and North Africa. Adel has provided commentary for a range of media outlets including the New York Times, the Financial Times, the Economist, the Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Arab News, the National, and Al Jazeera.