Meredith is a director in Control Risks’ business intelligence practice in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), leading the practice's strategic intelligence work to help clients identify, evaluate and capitalise on opportunities responsibly and successfully. Meredith employs Control Risks' global reach and unparalleled breadth of intelligence and risk expertise to inform clients' decision-making about market entry considerations, acquisitions and growth opportunities and third-party risk management.
Meredith is an experienced strategic advisor to private market investors and lenders, senior government officials, corporates, and legal professionals on market entry and investment strategy, intelligence gathering, political and country risk, sanctions and foreign investment screening, and transaction due diligence.
Meredith has had a diverse career in foreign policy, strategy consulting and business intelligence. Her experience includes advising current and former senior government officials at the Council on Foreign Relations and the Clinton Foundation in the US and supporting public sector and institutional investor clients with McKinsey & Company in Saudi Arabia and the UAE. She also helped a global client base navigate the Middle East and North Africa as head of the MENA practice for a business intelligence firm in the UK and in her own independent consulting ventures. Meredith has worked and traveled extensively throughout the MENA region and has lived in Lebanon, the UAE, Jordan and Egypt. She is a dual US-UK citizen.
Meredith holds a B.A. in Modern Middle East Studies and Political Science, with an interdisciplinary concentration in Order, Conflict and Violence, from Yale University and an M.Phil. in Islamic Studies and History from the University of Oxford. Meredith is fluent in Arabic and Persian and has basic competency in French and Spanish.