I help SMEs and development-focused organizations make better financial, market, and investment decisions — through feasibility studies, market understanding, credit and financial analysis, and statistical research.
Finance, market, credit, and development impact — read together, in one frame.
Every engagement is assessed through four connected lenses — finance, market, credit, and development impact. A decision only holds up when all four do.
Five focused services that turn financial and market data into decisions you can act on — for SMEs, entrepreneurs, and development-focused institutions.
Financial, market, and operational feasibility that moves an SME from an idea to an informed investment decision.
Market and business intelligence for entering a market, developing a product, or reassessing growth.
Read your financial position before seeking funding or committing to expansion.
Clean evidence and professional reporting for institutions, researchers, and development projects.
Research and advisory on development finance, SME support policy, financial inclusion, and program evaluation.
A clear path from the first conversation to a decision you can defend and act on.
Understand the real question, the decision at stake, and what success looks like.
Gather and clean the financial, market, and operational data the decision depends on.
Test the numbers, the market, and the risks with rigorous, transparent methods.
A clear, evidence-based recommendation — go, adjust, or wait — and why.
Practical next steps so the analysis turns into action, not a report on a shelf.
Most SME setbacks trace back to a decision made without the right numbers: a market that was smaller than it looked, a loan the cash flow couldn't carry, an expansion priced on hope. The work here is to put evidence under those decisions — before capital is committed, not after.
The advisory work is grounded in academic research and applied quantitative practice across development economics, SME finance, and the economies of Palestine and the Gulf.
A peer-reviewed examination of how the assault on Gaza disrupted output, livelihoods, and productive capacity across the Palestinian economy — and the structural conditions that shape any credible path to recovery.
Of the work listed, only the Omran Journal article is a peer-reviewed publication. The 14 working papers are independent and coursework research at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, with titles and years as recorded in the author's CV. No DOIs, citation counts, co-authors, or awards are implied.
Working briefs and analytical themes for SME owners, entrepreneurs, and institutions — practical reads, available as a briefing or a written piece.
The liquidity, repayment, and profitability signals a lender reads first — and how to check them yourself.
The questions a real feasibility study settles — demand, cost, capital, and return — before the cheque is written.
How to size demand honestly — and avoid building for a market that isn't there.
How access to finance supports SME growth, resilience, and employment — and where it falls short.
These are analytical themes and working formats, not previously published articles. Each can be prepared as a tailored briefing or written piece on request.
Selected analytical notes and advisory-style frameworks built around real market, finance, and development questions — the kinds of problems an engagement starts from.
A framework for testing whether a new venture's demand, costs, and returns justify the capital.
How an SME's financials would read to a lender — strengths, gaps, and what to fix first.
Sizing demand, competition, and the addressable opportunity for a product or market entry.
Whether a support program or finance instrument delivers measurable economic results.
Case notes describe analytical frameworks and the types of questions addressed. They do not reference specific named clients, engagements, or results.
I'm a development economist and SME-finance specialist based in Doha. I help entrepreneurs, small and medium businesses, and development-focused institutions turn financial and market data into decisions they can act on with confidence.
My background pairs two things that rarely sit together: more than a decade of hands-on practice in SME lending, credit analysis, and feasibility studies, and ongoing doctoral research in development economics, with applied quantitative work in STATA, Python, and Power BI. One side keeps the work practical; the other keeps it rigorous.
The problems I'm best suited to are the ones where a number has to be defended: is this venture feasible, is this business fundable, is this market real, did this program actually work. I work closely and directly — diagnosis first, evidence next, and a recommendation you can stand behind.
A short diagnostic session is the simplest place to start. Tell me the decision you're weighing, and I'll tell you what the analysis would need to answer it.