External Yemen Consultant
IHS Global Limited
Total years of experience :12 years, 8 Months
IHS is a global information company that provides cutting edge analysis into energy, economics, geopolitical risk, sustainability and supply chain management.
Reporting to a Senior Analyst (MENA Country Risk) I established and managed my own set of contacts in Yemen to help with tasked-based and periodic research.
Main responsibilities:
• Responsible for providing regular updates and risk analysis in response to Yemen’s ever changing political and security environment.
• Managing IHS' Yemen country profile through a range of analysis, political and economic forecasting, as well as editing outdated information for the benefit of IHS clients and subscribers.
• Conducting specific task-based research and analysis, such as the provision of a detailed infograph mapping out the dispersal of political parties’ support across Sana’a.
The International Training Academy is one of Yemen's premier private training academy's which offers a number of specialist English language, IT and business courses.
Reporting to the Managing Director I managed a team of 3 fully qualified English teachers, 1 administration officer and 2 IT support workers.
Main responsibilities:
• Planning and implementing key structural changes to INTRAC’s English Language Programme.
• Overseeing the recruitment drive for new English teachers - a process which notably included the construction of a viable employment package offered to potential candidates currently operating abroad.
Reason for leaving: relocating to the United Kingdom due to the rising insecurity and instability in Sana'a.
Yemen Times is the original, premier English language newspaper in Yemen.
I reported to both the Deputy Editor-in-Chief and the Editor-in-Chief.
Main responsibilities:
• Wrote a series of op-eds and investigative reports based on in-depth academic and field research.
Here are but three examples of the work I had published in the newspaper and online:
- US Power Play (published 3 September 2013)
- Drones Cast A Shadow Over The Right To Life (published 24 October 2013)
- Trial For Presidential Palace Bombers Remains Stalled As Political Pressure Mounts (published 14 November 2013)
Reasons for leaving: to focus on my Arabic language studies.
The Gulf Centre for Strategic Studies (GCSS) is an academic institute which conducts and subsequently distributes its own in-house research and analysis concerning developments in the the Middle East and North Africa, namely the GCC countries.
Reporting to the Managing Director I managed 2 assistants in the Bahrain office as well as 1 assistant in the Cairo office.
Main responsibilities:
• Conducted targeted research into pertinent acts, events and phenomena emanating from and directly related to the Gulf region.
• Compiled daily and weekly reports based on an analysis of the Western media’s coverage of specific issues and events related first and foremost to the Gulf, and then the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) more broadly. These reports were then distributed to GCSS’ subscribers located primarily in MENA, including small-medium and large businesses, regional enterprises, as well as various different Arab government officials and institutions.
• Prepared for, contributed to and subsequently reviewed various conferences, seminars and round-table discussions that focused on developments in the Gulf. These events were held in various academic institutes, including Chatham House, LSE, IISS, ECFR, SOAS etc.
• Liaised with GCSS’ sister offices located in Egypt and Bahrain as well as members of GCSS’ existing client base.
• Publication of research paper - How significant is the threat of terrorism to the instability of Yemen - (March 2012)
• Executed and developed Annual GCSS Archiving Project. Over a five-month period, I managed a team of freelancers tasked with photographing and reviewing the 1981 British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) declassified documents concerning the Arabian Gulf. The photos and reviews were then published in a book separated into both English and Arabic and then distributed among GCSS clients across MENA. Upon the completion of the archiving project I filed a detailed feedback report that highlighted several practical recommendations.
• Proposing and implementing several practical initiatives and cost-saving measures.
Reason for leaving: returned to Yemen to accelerate my Arabic language studies.
Received a First Class Honours degree.
Received a upper second class degree (2.1).