Convinced that he needed a wasta, or an influential intermediary to promote his application above the others, Nasser managed to secure a meeting with Under-Secretary of War Ibrahim Khairy Pasha, the person responsible for the academy's selection board, and requested his help.
As I explain in an article prepared for a symposium on the future of financial intermediation recently posted on SSRN, understanding the evolution of P2P from a technology that promised to enable individuals to displace influential financial intermediaries into a space dominated by those very intermediaries reveals broader lessons about the future of direct finance.
Mr. Coke is so influential that intermediaries managed to seek a resolution of his legal predicament directly with top aides to President Obama.
IV has already become the most influential patent intermediary in the technology sector.
Furthermore, participants thought that it was more effective to engage users in implementation rather than have an external entity impose guidelines on them, and that users represented the most influential type of intermediary.
Latif Mehsud also has become an increasingly influential commander, acting as an intermediary between cells of Taliban fighters along the border and the group's reclusive leader.
It is directly lobbying moderate House Republicans and using intermediaries to contact other influential Republicans.
The leading light in the employers' federation is Dmitry Firtash, an influential tycoon who once ran a lucrative gas intermediary called RosUkrEnergo (now defunct), and whose business interests are closely linked to the Russian market.
Largely through intermediaries, he sought out advisers in law and political consulting, among them Stanley Arkin, the influential New York lawyer.
The Director will supervise research, advocacy, and other projects related to intermediary liability (IL), and otherwise manage and develop the Center's innovative and influential IL work.
Bandar's name repeatedly emerges in the book as an innovative problem-solver, dedicated "to persuade Americans, especially American presidents, that the Kingdom is America's most reliable and influential ally in the Islamic world". The book offers intriguing examples of information passed along, tested informally, through intermediaries like Riedel and Bandar.
