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We are about to witness a global Economic, Social and Governance, or ESG, recession, brought to you by a legacy of a pandemic, global conflicts and rising cost of living.I believe this is good news...

Connections make the world go round. By connections I don’t mean the Arabic word 'wasta' that suggests nepotism, but I mean those interactions and touch points that we turn into a link and a...

Who would you support? The navy built to systematically protect our territories? Or pirates who make their living from disrupting these systems?We grew up with the entertaining cartoon image of...

The more I observe how important it is to be connected to the Internet the more I believe we need to invest in developing our own AI Bill of Rights.The online world has facilitated many blessings for...

In 1996, millions of Arab speaking families around the world became fans of one of the most popular TV series based on a novel, by the great Egyptian author Ehsan Abdul Qudus.You can tell from the...

“In this game of thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground”. While this quote is by a character in George R R Martin’s popular novel ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’ it rings true in...

Innovative disruption is more significant today than ever. This is thanks to the increasing number of complex problems humanity needs to solve to save ourselves and our planet.Disruptive innovation...

If there is one theme that would make or break this decade is impact investing, or investing in social, economic, environmental (or ESG) efforts that matter for our present and future. It is safe to...

You would have wondered the same: “What does Shakespeare have to do with an executive leadership programme?” It turned out to be one of the most enjoyable and life-changing learning experiences....

Just as the historical epic movie 'Gone with the Wind' caused a paradigm shift in the way we invested in cinema, the current Russian war on Ukraine is likely to cause a paradigm shift in the way we...

We often say that 'history repeats itself. However, what I really believe we really mean is that we, human beings, still repeat similar cycles of events and scenarios when we do not learn our...

What we have been through in the past three years used to face our ancestors over centuries. No generation of humanity before us were this connected and witnessing together at the same time a global...

It would not be an exaggeration if history labels this year as the energy security year.This is because over the past decades human socio-economic progress has led to an unprecedented increase in...

We are witnessing two emerging outcomes as we recover from the global pandemic. First we are realising now that our health is our most underrated blessing and our least optimised asset and second is...

Even the most pessimistic thinkers would have not imagined that humanity instead of appreciating peace as we are recovering from a global pandemic is now discussing whether we are on a path towards...

One of the valuable childhood memories for many of us is remembering the way we grew up with families that saw values in everything around us.Growing up in Salalah, I noticed my family and our...

No topic is receiving more global attention in this century, so far, than sustainability, or how we as more than 7 billion people in this planet can balance our future needs, with energy security and...

How do you think can a country described in 1719 as “the poorest and most miserable colony in all America (Central, South & North)” by a Spanish governor, become one of the most peaceful, talented...

We will soon notice a great divide emerging between two markets; a traditional market and a green-impact driven market, if you had to bet on one make sure you bet on the latter.There were times we...

As the saying goes “the more things change the more they stay the same”. This is true when we look at the history of how societies evolve over time.Since the beginning of time, history favours the...