Hazem is a Senior Consultant in Control Risks’ MENA Business Intelligence team, based between Abu Dhabi and Dubai. Hazem specialises in and leads complex and multi-jurisdictional business intelligence and dispute support investigations across the Middle East and North Africa, with particular focus on the GCC and the Levant region.
Hazem works closely with clients from various sectors on range of complex and sensitive issues, where he provides specialist insights and analysis to help clients navigate complex environments, manage and mitigate risks, realise opportunities and make informed business-critical decisions.
Recent tasks that Hazem has worked on include:
Several pre-M&A and -transactional due diligence assignments, reporting to clients their exposure to reputational, integrity, regulatory risks and advising these clients on relevant mitigation measures.
Complex cross-border asset tracing and identification, covering several onshore and offshore jurisdictions to support informed corporate and legal decision-making for potential litigation and enforcement activities.
Management and implementation of third-party risk management programmes for GCC companies.
Identification and mapping out of the supply chains and money laundering typologies used by organised crime syndicates and militant groups to launder the proceeds of illicit commodities.
Local specialist intelligence, alongside local-language research, to prove a client’s concern surrounding counterfeiting and intellectual property theft across the MENA region and parts of Europe.
Prior to joining Control Risks, Hazem worked within the global risk and investigation practice of a global consultancy in their London and Dubai offices. Before that, Hazem completed work experiences at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jordan and the Political Affairs Directorate of the Royal Hashemite Court in the Office of King Abdullah II, where he monitored and analysed domestic issues to provide risk and political assessments to senior Court and government officials.
Hazem holds an MSc in Management, Organizations and Governance from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE); a BA in International Business Management with Study Abroad from the University of Sheffield; and Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (Expired).
Hazem speaks fluent Arabic and English.