Adel Hamaizia is the Managing Director at London-based 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).  Adel is also 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 formerly a visiting fellow at Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and previously a senior teaching fellow at the Department of Financial and Management Studies at SOAS, University of London. He was previously 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”.