Experience across intelligence, strategy and complex international risk

Intelligence methodology, strategic assessment, academic research and sovereign relationships.

Dr Nawaf Obaid founded AURORAH and leads its analytical approach, technical requirements and intelligence quality standards. He is a Visiting Senior Research Fellow in the Department of War Studies at King's College London, where his research covers intelligence and security studies, defence doctrine and Gulf security. Between 2002 and 2016 he held senior advisory posts in Saudi government and diplomacy, including with the Kingdom's ambassadors in London and Washington and at the Royal Court, and between 2012 and 2019 he held fellowships at Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center. He was educated at Georgetown, Harvard, MIT and King's College London. He has written books on Saudi national security, energy policy and the Muslim Brotherhood, and Before the First Strike is forthcoming from Helion & Company. He appears regularly on international television and radio.

Commercial strategy, international risk, company development and institutional partnerships.

Rawny Khadr leads AURORAH's commercial strategy, company development and institutional partnerships. He brings more than 25 years of executive leadership, including over two decades in insurance, reinsurance and risk across the GCC. As Group Head of Insurance at NEOM he built the enterprise insurance function from inception, and he was General Manager of Dhofar Insurance, one of Oman's leading insurers. He served as Vice Chairman of the Oman Insurance Association and Founding Chairman of the Omani Unified Bureau for the Orange Card, and was a founding board member of Oman Reinsurance Company and a member of the Arab War Risks Insurance Syndicate (AWRIS). At AURORAH he connects intelligence to the exposures that institutional clients price, insure and manage, and leads commercial development and the client proposition for IMPACT, for insurers, investors, energy and shipping.