Adel Hamaizia

Adel Hamaizia is a Nonresident Fellow at the Belfer Center’s Middle East Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School. He has also served as a Teaching Fellow for IGA-655: Middle Eastern Politics and Policy and J-Term DPI-442M: Leadership and Social Transformation in the Arab World at Harvard Kennedy School. He also co-curated and co-convened the MEI Study Group: Shifting Geoeconomics and National Development in the GCC States.

His primary research interests include political economy, geoeconomics, energy policy, state-business relations, MSMEs, and the informal sector across the Middle East and North Africa, with a particular focus on the Maghreb and the GCC states. More recently, he has led research and policy projects on China–MENA relations, GCC-Asia relations, GCC–Africa relations, GCC energy transitions, and Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030.

Adel is currently the Managing Director at London-based Highbridge Advisory, a strategic boutique advisory focused on information advantage, risk mitigation, policy development, and implementation for companies and governments in the Middle East, the Balkans, and Africa (MEBA). He is also a Senior Advisor at the Milken Institute.

Adel is a researcher at the University of Oxford, where he previously taught Middle East Politics. He formerly served as Vice-Chairman of the Oxford Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies Forum (OxGAPS), where he was also co-founder and co-editor of Gulf Affairs, the forum's thematic quarterly publication.

He was previously a Visiting Fellow at Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies, an Associate Fellow with Chatham House’s Middle East and North Africa Programme, a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council, an Associate at Global Partners Governance, and a Senior Teaching Fellow in the Department of Financial and Management Studies at SOAS, University of London.

He regularly convenes and contributes to Track 1.5 and Track 2 dialogues, and has provided commentary for a range of international media outlets, including the New York Times, Financial Times, The Economist, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Arab News, The National, and Al Jazeera.