Strategic Insight
Data-driven market intelligence
Mission-driven advisory
Business, investment, and partnership solutions for underserved markets
Navigating complexity to support decisions and enable execution through market insight, community empowerment, and strategic partnerships.
Impact-Driven
Solutions that make a difference
Capabilities
Advisory work that moves from insight to execution.
We utilize local networks and international standards to support decision-making, execution, and market entry in underserved markets.
Strategy and Market Advisory
Market assessment, feasibility studies, due diligence, and business diagnostics to support informed commercial decisions.
Investment, Transactions, and Partnerships
Investment facilitation, transaction support, and partnership design, including blended finance, co-investment, and market-based collaboration.
Research and Policy Advisory
Economic research, policy analysis, and regulatory advisory to inform strategy, reform, and market development.
In the media
Selected articles from our partner platform
A selection of recent commentary and analysis published with our partner platform.
Partner publication
No quick fix
Oil, wheat and the limits of economic recovery in northeast Syria
Government control over oil and wheat in the northeast is framed as the missing piece of Syria’s economic revival. The numbers tell a different story.
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Partner publication
Young, motivated, struggling
Syria’s returning workforce faces a broken labour market
Productive know-how lives in complex networks of firms, suppliers, and professional communities. After being shattered by war, that collective capability remains fractured.
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Leadership grounded in finance, policy, and market execution
A multidisciplinary team with experience across finance, policy, markets, and development The team brings together commercial, analytical, and sector expertise shaped by work across private sector, development, and humanitarian settings in complex and underserved markets.
Amjad Hamza
Co-Founder
Amjad Hamza is a development and private sector engagement professional with more than 10 years of experience across humanitarian, recovery, and economic development programming in complex environments. His work has included leading major economic recovery initiatives and supporting diaspora investment efforts through roles with USAID and other organizations. He has worked extensively on partnership development, market-based approaches, and private sector engagement in underserved and challenging markets.
Nasser Youssef
Co-Founder
Nasser Youssef is a finance professional with more than 25 years of experience in commercial and private banking, trade finance, and investment advisory across Syria and the United Kingdom. He has managed complex cross-border transactions and worked extensively with diaspora business networks, with a background spanning banking relationships, trade finance, and investment-related advisory.
Zaki Mehchy
Co-Founder
Zaki Mehchy is a Policy Fellow at the London School of Economics and co-founder of the Syrian Center for Policy Research. He brings more than 20 years of experience in socio-economic research and policy analysis and has advised governments, donors, and multilateral institutions on inclusive development, governance, and labor market issues. His work centers on economic insight, strategic research, and policy analysis in support of development, governance, and labor market reform.
Rafah Albareedi
Senior Advisor, Governance and Institutional Development
Rafah Albareedi is a senior international development and governance leader with 20 years of executive experience across humanitarian response, recovery, and institutional transformation in the MENA region. Her background includes work with the United Nations Development Programme, government institutions, and international organizations, leading strategic initiatives funded by the EU, EIB, KfW, GIZ, and other international partners. She brings deep experience in governance reform, economic recovery, livelihoods, resilience, public sector modernization, and community development across Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey, Palestine, and Morocco.
Hamza Alghabra
Head of Damascus Office
Hamza Alghabra is a humanitarian and development professional with extensive experience across the MENA region, specializing in crisis response, partnerships, and policy engagement in fragile and conflict-affected settings. His work has involved managing donor relationships, grants, and compliance across organizations and mechanisms including OCHA, USAID, BMZ, EIDHR, UN agencies, and private foundations, alongside advocacy, stakeholder coordination, humanitarian access analysis, and policy development. He leads the Damascus office, overseeing local engagement and in-country coordination across public, private, and development stakeholders.
Dr. Yahya Dana
Agriculture and Agribusiness Advisor
Dr. Yahya Dana is an agricultural consultant and researcher with more than 15 years of experience across multiple countries in agricultural project planning, proposal development, sustainable production systems, and agricultural supply chains. His background spans advisory, research, and field leadership roles across the public, private, and development sectors, including the National Agricultural Research Center in Jordan, Action Against Hunger, and USAID-funded projects. He focuses on practical, science-based solutions that strengthen agricultural production, improve market access, and support agribusiness and value chain development.