Raad Alkadiri is an international country risk specialist with over 20 years of experience advising senior oil and gas industry executives and government leaders on the management of long-term investment strategies, above-ground risk mitigation, and stakeholder engagement in the energy sector.

Previously, he was a managing director for energy, climate, and sustainability at Eurasia Group. He was also a senior director at the BCG Center for Energy Impact, a managing director at IHS Energy, and partner and head of markets and country strategies at PFC Energy. From 2003-04, he was policy advisor and assistant private secretary to the United Kingdom special representative to Iraq and later served as senior policy advisor to the ambassador in Baghdad from 2006-07. Alkadiri holds a DPhil in international relations from St Antony’s College at Oxford University. A fluent Arabic speaker, he has spent extensive periods living and working in the Middle East.