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Alsharif Nasser bin Nasser

Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Ambit Advisory

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Nasser is an impact strategist and turnaround specialist with a proven track record helping underperforming organizations and initiatives. He helps organizations across the public, private, and non-profit sectors craft compelling narratives and engage stakeholders through strategic advocacy. He also helps organizations identify and navigate complex emerging-technology, geopolitical and geoeconomic risks that affect long-term performance. In 2022, Nasser launched Ambit Advisory, an impact driven organization focused on cross-sectoral and cascading risks at the nexus of security and development in the Middle East. At the start of 2022, he was also appointed as Senior Advisor to the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR), where he leads research relating to the impacts of artificial intelligence on Middle East regional security, including ballistic missiles, drones, disruptive weapon systems and weapons of mass destruction. In 2025, Nasser joined the Washington-based TRENDS as a Senior Advisor, where he provides advisory services on Middle East geopolitical, geoeconomic, defense and security issues. Nasser recently joined the International Strategic Advisory Group of the Institute of Strategic Risk Management, where he draws on formal training in corporate risk governance, risk management and cyber risk governance. In 2023, Nasser served a two-year term as a member of World Economic Forum’s Global Futures Council on Complex Risk, an interdisciplinary invitation-only community that works to identify long term global risks for stakeholders in the World Economic Forum. Nasser has worked as a Fellow at Agora Strategy Group, a German boutique consultancy, since 2017. In this role, he uses his geopolitical knowledge of the Middle East to provide strategic investment advisory services to Agora’s corporate and governmental clients. From 2010 until 2022, Nasser served as the Managing Director of the Middle East Scientific Institute for Security (MESIS) based in Amman, Jordan. In this position, he focused on addressing chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) risks across the Middle East region. During the same period, he also headed the Middle East Regional Secretariat, the first of eight secretariats to be established globally under the European Union’s “Centres of Excellence” initiative on CBRN issues. In both these roles, he worked with governments of the Middle East to raise awareness about these risks and generate regional cooperation and responses to mitigate against them. Previously, Nasser worked in the office of His Majesty King Abdullah II of Jordan (2004-2010), where he last served as Senior Analyst in the Foreign Affairs Directorate. During that time, he managed several bilateral and thematic files and led analytical studies on Jordan’s regional and international relations. Nasser is also involved with numerous organizations. He served as the Chairman of the Jordan French Insurance Company (2009-2012) and an independent board member between the years 1999-2009. Since 2007, he serves as the Vice Chairman of a public national commission offering support to injured and disabled veterans. He also currently serves as the Vice Chairman of the Jordanian Jiu-Jitsu and Mixed Martial Arts Federation since 2024. In 2015, Nasser was selected by the World Economic Forum as a “Young Global Leader,” along with 187 candidates globally and served as Member of the Advisory Group for the Forum of Young Global Leaders 2021-2022. He worked as a non-resident scholar of the Washington-based Middle East Institute during the years 2018-2020 and was a regular columnist in the English-language daily, Jordan News Daily, between the years 2021-2024.