Matthew Hedges, Consultant

Matthew Hedges

Consultant

Freelance Consulting

Lieu
Émirats Arabes Unis - Dubaï
Éducation
Master, International Relations of the Middle East
Expérience
13 years, 9 Mois

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Expériences professionnelles

Total des années d'expérience :13 years, 9 Mois

Consultant à Freelance Consulting
  • Émirats Arabes Unis - Dubaï
  • Je travaille ici depuis novembre 2014
Analyst & Project Manager à INEGMA
  • Émirats Arabes Unis - Dubaï
  • septembre 2011 à août 2014

September 2011 - Date
INEGMA (Institute for Near East and Gulf Military Analysis), Dubai, UAE
Analyst & Project Manager

• Composing daily and monthly situational reports on a wide range of issues for clients and in-house
use
• Leveraging a wide network of contacts in both the public and private sectors to retrieve unique,
timely information in order to compile strategic white papers for clients
• Specialising in due diligence and investigations providing stakeholder analysis, relationship
mapping and obtaining key items of interest for clients to make informed decisions
• Performing on the ground investigations in Jordan, Lebanon, Qatar, Russia, UAE and UK
• Developing crisis management procedures and protocols for clients to react and foresee events of instability affecting their operations
• Undertaking strategic communication projects in support of foreign policy objectives
• Secondary role as Project Manager involves developing INEGMA's contacts into business partners and executing projects to client requirements
• Managing all of INEGMA's high-level conferences

Research Analyst à INEGMA
  • Émirats Arabes Unis
  • juillet 2009 à juillet 2010

July 09 - July 2010
INEGMA, Dubai, UAE
Research Analyst

• Sourced information in order to assist with INEGMA's consultancy projects. This ranged from projected procurement assessments of a Middle Eastern nation to the evolving threat analysis in the
South Asian continent

2008 Beirut Exchange à Extra-Curricular Education
  • Liban - Beyrouth
  • juin 2008 à juillet 2008

Extra-Curricular Education: June/July 2008 Beirut Exchange Course, Beirut,
This involved: - Learning about Lebanese politics and its relationship to the wider region
- Meetings and discussions with high profile figures within the Lebanese Armed Forces,
government, political arena, religious authorities and journalists
- Touring UNIFIL responsibilities in and around the base in Nabatiyeh
- Visited the Nahr El-Bared Palestinian camp followed by talks given by Palestinian
Liberation Organisation (PLO) and Hamas representatives in Beirut

Éducation

Master, International Relations of the Middle East
  • à University of Exeter
  • janvier 2011

2010-2011 University of Exeter MA, International Relations of the Middle East,

Baccalauréat, International Relations and Security Studies
  • à University of Bradford
  • juin 2009

2006-2009 University of Bradford BSc, International Relations and Security Studies

Etudes secondaires ou équivalent, Public school education until 18
  • à Cranleigh School
  • janvier 2006

1999-2006 Cranleigh School

Specialties & Skills

Networking Events
Analysis
Market Entry
Investigative Research
CRISIS MANAGEMENT
DUE DILIGENCE
MAPPING
OPERATIONS
PROJECT MANAGER
WHITE PAPERS

Langues

Arabe
Débutant
Anglais
Expert
Russe
Débutant

Loisirs

  • Papers published (Partial Selection)
    Strategic Balancing and Power Play in the North Caucuses - International Implications of the Rise of Chechnya under Ramzan Kadyrov, May 2013 Joint Operations of Land Forces in the Middle East, July 2013 The UAE's Growing Defence Industry: Promising Signs of Intent in the UAE Defence Industry, November 2013 Fragility of Centralised Power in Libya, June 2014, Intersec Journal