Our Consultants
Yusuf Tayara
Yusuf is the founder and CEO of Oxford Levant. Yusuf is a leading specialist in anti-bribery and corruption, anti-money laundering, and counter-terrorist financing due diligence in the MENA region.
Yusuf combines a decade of experience in due diligence consulting with rigorous academic training at the London School of Economics, the University of Cambridge, and the University of Oxford. His research has focused on the intersections of science, society, and policy.
He has also previously worked in the third sector, focusing on human rights and educational philanthropy in the Levant region. In the course of this work he has developed detailed knowledge of the political, regulatory, and reputational risk landscape of the Levant and Egypt.
Yusuf is particularly focused on integrating insights from his extensive network of contacts with the cutting edge in political and economic risk research methods.
Edward Anders
Edward Anders is a specialist consultant bringing a background in computational and quantitative social science to the analysis of political systems, state capacity, and political-economic risk.
Edward’s experiences lie at the intersection of politics and tech. His research focuses on the role of new technologies in shaping political attitudes and behaviours, looking at the resilience of democracy to emergent technological change.
He has also previously worked in early-stage tech startups leading new market-entry strategies, and has worked on a number of regulatory and compliance due diligence cases.
Edward’s other experiences cover risk assessments, policy analysis, and regulatory uncertainty. He particularly enjoys focussing on data-driven cases and working with interesting datasets.