Prior to his work in EFI, Elinadav has worked as a Policy Advisor on Foreign Affairs at the European Parliament and as a senior consultant in the T.A.R.A strategic consultancy group in Israel.
Ali Khedery is chairman and chief executive of Dragoman Partners, a strategic consultancy.
"Prince Muqrin does not have a reputation for competence, and if he is in the line of succession when … Salman dies, there could be an intervention to bypass him," said the strategic consultancy Stratfor.
"My hypothesis", says Michael Jensen, a former professor at Harvard Business School and now a director at the Monitor Group, a strategic consultancy, "is that they overreached to try to become all things to everybody, to become the world's greatest company.
Since leaving office, Sawers has taken up two influential private-sector jobs and followed his predecessors at MI6, Sir John Scarlett and Sir Richard Dearlove, into a network of small, London-based private intelligence and strategic consultancy firms that advise top corporate clients, from sovereign wealth funds to blue-chip companies and foreign governments.
He is an adviser to the management consultancy Bain & Co, which has healthcare clients, and the subscription firm MAP BioPharma, and is an active associate of Low, a strategic consultancy set up by his wife, Sally Low, which specialises in "creating policy-rich events".
Some employers, particularly at the top-flight strategic consultancies such as McKinsey or Boston Consulting Group, actively encourage their high-achieving recruits to enrol on an MBA course after a couple of years on the job.
Daniel Freedman is the director of policy analysis and communications of the Soufan Group, a strategic-consultancy company.
It's about Anthony Venus, who started a strategic-consultancy business in Singapore in early 1998, at the height of the region's financial typhoon.
Sarah Sorensen is the principal of Sorensen Consulting, a sustainability and strategic communications consultancy.
