Adel Hamaizia

Adel Hamazia 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. Hamaizia is also a research fellow at the Belfer Center’s Middle East Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School and is also a senior advisor at the Milken Institute.

He was formerly nonresident senior fellow with the Scowcroft Middle East Security Initiative and MENA Futures Lab at the Atlantic Council’s Middle East Programs, an associate fellow at the Chatham House Middle East and North Africa program, and previously served as 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.

Hamaizia has consulted for several governments, foundations, and private sector organizations with a focus on political risk, due diligence, corporate investigations, public diplomacy, and economic development. He regularly convenes and contributes to track 1.5 and 2 meetings and is engaged in a range of economic initiatives across the Middle East and North Africa.

Hamaizia has provided commentary for several media outlets including the New York Times, the Financial Times, the Economist, the Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Arab News, the National, and Al Jazeera.