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3BL Associates is a people + planet consultancy and think-do-tank with impact across 90+ countries.

  • •Founded and led one of the world's first multidisciplinary, systems-led sustainable strategy consultancies, serving a multi-sector client portfolio across the Arab world, Europe, Asia, Africa, and North America—including Nobel Peace Prize laureates, global foundations, and multiple UN agencies.
  • •Led research initiatives on alternative business models and ownership structures, including the development of postgrowth.earth, the first knowledge platform for post-growth social innovation.
  • •Backstopping the development of a central bank-driven green taxonomy framework for a G20 country.
  • •Led the development of bankable climate adaptation investment plans for small island development states.
  • •Transformed ad hoc CSR and environmental programs into industry-specific ESG strategies for multi-national companies with revenues ranging from $3M to $2.7B.
  • •Served as a climate policy advisor at 8 UNFCCC COPs and represented 3BL as an observer organization in the Green Climate Fund.
  • •Developed custom systems thinking tools for our clients, such as a gender, systems, and power framework for UNDP that included gender-sensitive models for alternative ownership structures for data, participation, and finance.
  • •Consulting for EMEA Foundation clients with $8m+ in annual giving on new economy approaches to philanthropy and giving.
  • •Led the research on alternative business and human rights framework for migrant workers in Gulf states for an international NGO chaired by the Former President of Ireland.
  • •Advised multinational executive teams on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Justice (DEIJ) and just transitions.
  • •Developed and delivered customized ESG training for boards, C-suite, mid-senior, and junior levels.
  • •Guided companies in implementing frameworks such as Stakeholder Capitalism, the Shared Value Initiative, the UN Global Compact, UN Principles for Responsible Investment, Integrated Reporting, and Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures.

    • Recipes for Wellbeing (RfW) supports impact organizations and communities to develop wellbeing skills and wellbeing economy strategies.

  • •Curated an open-source library of 300+ wellbeing strategies for individuals and organizations.
  • •Led the development of a 'Wholebeing Skills Framework' mapping 150+ skills across 12 learning domains for changemakers.
  • •Hosted wellbeing impact labs in 15 countries, attended by 300+ organizations.
  • •Collaborated with Google to create educational content on digital wellbeing in 50+ languages.
  • •Partnered with social enterprise ecosystems to bring the RfW framework to a community of over 200 social enterprises across 95 countries.
  • •Customized wellbeing training for changemakers, supported by organizations such as SAP and Apple.

    • Invented a planet-centered partnership framework and design methodology to facilitate nature-based partnerships and planet-positive collaborations between humans and other species.

  • •Established a multi-sector client portfolio in the Arab world, Africa, and Asia, including the World Food Programme Tanzania, MIT’s Arab Enterprise Forum, and MENA governments.
  • •Developed and delivered customized multi-species collaboration workshops for entities such as IKEA and UNESCO.
  • •Secured funding from Ashoka and the Robert Bosch Foundation, as well as a Global Impact Innovation award and grant from Dubai Expo 2020.
  • •Leading research on developing a 'Supreme Court for Nature' to support multi-species decentralized justice models with Kleros.
  • •Raised ~$500K to develop the MENA region’s first online platform connecting under-represented Arab and North African women to executive and advisory board opportunities.
  • •Established an Emerging Board Leadership Fellowship and training program for exceptional, ESG-focused, Arab and North African responsible leaders under the age of 45.
  • •Delivered executive modules such as ‘Boards within Planetary Boundaries’ and ‘Nature on Boards’.
  • •Secured strategic partnerships with firms managing over $3T AUM, such as HSBC, Investcorp, and KPMG.
  • •Part of a 3-year research development team with the American University of Beirut, resulting in the MENA 'Lived Experience Index' tracking female experiences of recruitment, retention, and promotion.
    • Board and Advisory Highlights

    Ummah for Earth is an alliance-led initiative with the goal of empowering Muslim communities that are facing the climate crisis. The alliance is led by Greenpeace MENA, Global One, and Islamic Relief.

    Supporting the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) and G20 Global Land Initiative on common policy messaging across 3 Rio conventions and the strategic engagement of faith communities and organizations in land restoration.

    A member of the HBR Advisory Council, an opt-in research community of business professionals.

    Faith in Action focuses on accelerating the prosocial impact of religion, spirituality, and values toward public-private cooperation. Served on the inaugural report advisory board.

    The UN Decade is co-led by UNEP and the FAO, with the primary aim to prevent, halt and reverse the degradation of ecosystems worldwide.

    Convened by the UN Climate Action High-level Champions, the Race to Resilience campaign aims to mobilize businesses, investors, cities, and civil society to strengthen the climate resilience of 4 billion people.

    1t.org empowers the global reforestation community to conserve, restore and grow one trillion trees by 2030.

    Supporting the governance of an impact community of 16,000 young leaders spanning 500 city-based hubs in 155 countries and leading 2000+ impact projects.

    A global social innovation movement for SDG collaboration, co-founded by Ashoka, Echoing Green, the Schwab Foundation and the Skoll Foundation. A winner of the Catalyst 2030 MENA Award ('22)

    EAT is the science-based global platform for food system transformation. It is a global non-profit funded by the Stordalen Foundation, Stockholm Resilience Centre and the Wellcome Trust.

    An inter-faith ecologically focused movement with branches and activities in 21 countries.

    The network consisted of 90 major stakeholders who supported over 950 strategic policy documents, engaging 2 million teacher educators and 26 million learners.

    Education Highlights
    Masters, Degrowth: Ecology, Economics and Policy, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
    Barcelona, Spain

    Among the first 10 people in the world to complete the first international master's degree fully dedicated to research and policy for degrowth and post-growth economics.

    Alternative Masters in Divinity (Alt*Div), Open Masters
    CA / MD / NY, USA

    A year-long alternative to divinity school focused on the intersection of theology, spiritual ecology, community building, and social justice.

    Executive Education, Singularity University
    California, USA

    Based in NASA Research Park, Singularity University’s mission is to educate, inspire and empower executive leaders to apply exponential technologies to address humanity's grand challenges.

    Among the first 100 people in the world to complete a specialist certification in the scientific practice of Biomimicry; innovation and systems transformation inspired by nature.

    B.Sc. (Hons) Investment and Financial Risk Management, Bayes Business School (formerly Cass), City University London
    London, UK
    Executive Education, Multiple

  • •Executive Program, Singularity University
  • •Ubuntu Peer Coach Coaching Qualification (Accredited by ITOL), The Desmond Tutu Foundation UK
  • •Certificate program, Inclusive Strategies for Recruitment, Retention and Promotion (RRP) of Women, American University of Beirut
  • •Trimtab Space Camp - Systems Thinking and Design Science, Buckminster Fuller Institute
  • •International Visitor Leadership Program - Climate Change and Renewable Energy, U.S. State Department
    • Fellowships
  • •Royal Society of Arts (FRSA), Fellow & Capabilities for Life Faculty Member
  • •Kleros, Decentralized Justice Fellow
  • •Post-Growth Institute, Fellow
  • •Future Faith, Fellow
  • •ChangemakerXchange, Fellow and Facilitator
    • Speaking Highlights

    Experienced speaker, having conducted training and workshops across 6 continents for over 150+ nationalities. Including UN high-level events, the World Economic Forum in Davos, global social innovation platforms, indigenous community gatherings, and high-level inter-faith congregations. Featured in publications such as The New York Times, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, and Stanford Social Innovation Review. Host of “People and Planet”, an official podcast of Expo 2020 Dubai.

    Other Highlights

    Expo Live (Expo 2020) Global Innovator; BMW Foundation Responsible Leader; Recognized as a 'Climate Trailblazer' by the Global Climate Action Summit; First person in MENA awarded as a GreenBiz and World Business Council for Sustainable Development 30 under 30 leader; Winner of the 8th UNESCO Youth Forum Award; Among the 'Meaningful Business 100', a global community of leaders recognized for their work to achieve the UN SDGs; Member, Wellbeing Economy Alliance; Named among 10 Muslim men worldwide who are shaping the world in 2015; World Government Summit Young Leader; IISS Manama Dialogue Young Leader; World Diabetes Day Champion; Adopt a Negotiator (Now Climate Tracker) Climate Policy Tracker, Fellow; TEDx Speaker and Curator; Founding National Coordinator of the Arab Youth Climate Movement; a Founding Member of the International Degrowth Network.