Origin country:
Jordan
How long in the UAE?
3 Months
Sectors covered:
Tech, Education, Healthcare, Aviation, International Development, NGOs
What inspired you to pursue a career in Trade & Investment?
Having been born and bred in Jordan, I was exposed to the challenges facing developing nations, from socio-economic injustices, poverty, and lack of opportunity despite talents’ availability, just to name a few. This has driven me to pursue a career that helps me understand the incentives, barriers, and levers for change rather than relying on assumptions or conventional wisdom.
What’s the most exciting project you’ve worked on in the last year?
As a Project Coordinator for Halcyon Incubator leading international social economic leaders, I managed to motivate a diverse set of entrepreneurs from around the globe to disrupt humanitarian action for the better. To do this, I used the innovation cycle to design, scale and iterate solutions to the sectors most complex challenges. Starting with research and analysis to identify the exact problems we were seeking to solve, and facilitating ideation sessions and design sprints, we implemented big and small agile projects to reach our goals. Using this approach, I successfully increased the effectiveness of one of the fastest angel network funds in the world to release funding in less than 72 hours, developed new systems to bring on more community-based organizations, and made governance and decision making more consistent across the Network.
What’s the best advice you can give to someone interested in doing business in the Middle East?
The Arab market is one of the largest with many blooming businesses and a great geographical location that serves an access to European, Asian, and African markets, while investment policies can seem challenging, but they are not impossible, with the right network, and the help of professionals in the region, the experience will be highly rewarding.
How has CV19 changed your job in the last 6 months?
It increased the organization’s agility drove it to become more nimble, adaptive, and futuristic.
Finish this sentence. On Friday mornings, you can usually find me…
Packing my beach bag to get some vitamin sea.
When travel opens up again, where’s the first place you want to go to & why?
Georgia, fond by the mountains and the cold weather
