Adel Hamaizia is a nonresident senior fellow with the Scowcroft Middle East Security Initiative at the Atlantic Council’s Middle East programs. He is also 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 currently a research fellow at the Belfer Center’s Middle East Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School. He was formerly an associate fellow at the Chatham House Middle East and North Africa program.

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.