Ramez T. Shehadi is Executive Vice President & Managing Director of Booz Allen Hamilton, driving the international expansion of the firm’s general management consulting services for public and private sector clients across all major industry verticals in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). A seasoned strategy consultant, over the years Ramez has led global lines of business for other consulting firms primarily in the Digital Business & Technology domains. Ramez has written extensively and advised private and public sector organizations on topics ranging from digital strategy to technology-driven socio-economic development, sectoral digitization and next generation smart services and infrastructure.

Ramez has also built and led corporate social responsibility programs with the aim to deliver positive change across the MENA region through diversified support on essential themes such as empowerment of women, entrepreneurship and other socio-economic issues. Ramez has also served as senior director of product development at eBreviate.com in San Francisco, a Research Associate at the Centre for Management of Technology and Entrepreneurship think tank in Toronto, Mechanical Engineer at Stone & Webster in Boston, and competitive 8m class amateur sailor and medalist in the 1997 and 1998 North American Championships and the 1999 World Championships. Ramez is a board member of the Young Arab Leaders (YAL) and several other regional NGOs and technology start-ups and remains an active Endeavor mentor and Young Presidents Organization (YPO) member. He is a Fellow of the Aspen Institute and the Institute’s Middle East Leadership Initiative and serves as a Moderator for the Aspen Global Leadership Network. Ramez holds a BEng in Mechanical Engineering from Rutgers University and an MASc in Industrial Engineering from the University of Toronto.