Senior Fellow, MasterCard Center for Inclusive Growth, USA
Senior strategy advisor focused on Emerging Markets with experience in Public Sector Modernization, Technology for Development, and Education. Yasar is the co-founder of the Arabic portal for the Future of Government, and a co-founding Partner 3 emerging markets professional service firms: Exantium, IAG and THC.
Former Partner at Bain & Company (head of Public Sector practice) and prior to that Partner at PwC and led the Middle East Strategy Group, Global Education Group, and established the ME Public Sector Institute. Before PwC, Yasar served as the founding Executive Dean of the Dubai School of Government and as a Research Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He also served as the Strategy Director at The Executive Office of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum in Dubai from 2001 to 2005.
Prior to that, Yasar worked in the UK as a Research Fellow in Cranfield School of Management and Bradford School of Management. Yasar published extensively in various academic and professional journals, and his insights have been quoted in global and regional media.
