Dr. Náder Alyani
Director,Enlightened Robot
Bio:
Náder is the advisory lead at Enlightened Robotand executive director of German-based Bloomsbert Associates acting as a specialist on strategic alignment and digital technology investment projects. He was previously theMenas Associates’ Gulf region lead and a correspondent with the Economist magazine. His managerial, consulting and academic activities focus on capability development, facilitating risk analytics and implementing innovation. His career has spanned ascending positions in the public and private sector,and as an adviser to MNCs (on FDIs, PPP, local content and human capital), having served with research, consulting and policy-design and implementation institutions. He has advised upon, managed, or directed 20+ projects and programmes with integrity and cultural awareness, covering digital transformation and operating models, PMO, M&A and lean organisational change, robotic process automation (RPA),smartKPIs, organisational redesign and people analytics with industry software toolsand has specialised on developing capabilities and upskilling for 4th Industrial Revolution, utilising Artificial Intelligence applications (e.g. ML, DL, DLT) with use cases in Smart-Cities.
A doctoralalumnus of University College London and a Fellow of Royal Geographical Society in London, with a focus on economic geography of innovation, he remains engaged in human capital,industrial andsectoral policy challenges in, and related to the Gulf region in the recent years.