Capital, seen from several sides.

Background

From capital markets to public investment.

My career began with an internship at the Belgrade Stock Exchange and moved through insurance risk and corporate finance before I came to the Gulf. At Emirates I spent nearly six years on route economics, pricing and the performance frameworks senior leadership used to read the business. At G42 the work turned to valuation, M&A support and group-wide planning in a fast-growing technology group.

Today I work for the Abu Dhabi Government in the tourism sector, applying finance and economics to the development of the country. My focus is economic value maximisation and project investment due diligence: making sure that capital committed to the sector creates measurable economic value for the Emirate. The work spans capital allocation, feasibility assessment, economic-impact analysis, forecasting and executive decision support, and it often places me alongside specialist advisory firms and multidisciplinary teams.

Quantitative work remains central to how I think, from DCF and scenario analysis to forecasting and applied machine learning. But I do not treat a model as the answer. A model is a structured representation of assumptions. Knowing which assumptions matter, how they respond to the economic environment and where the model can fail is usually worth more than the precision of its output.

I am a CFA charterholder and am completing the Executive MBA at London Business School. The Aurelian Review is where these threads meet in public: analysis of the stories that move the economy, and studies and guides that explain them.