About The Mena Catalysts

Our “origin story” begins with us working in multinational companies, overseeing Middle East expansion or being responsible for Gulf government relations. We hunted for the right policy advice, using almost every local ‘consulting’ firm in Dubai and Riyadh and an assortment of global government relations firms. We learned the hard way: The Middle East high-tech public policy arena was fundamentally different from traditional policy consulting. Law and PR firms claimed they could accomplish miracles, but really just burned through a lot of time creating little value. International government affairs firms headquartered abroad boasted of global scale but did not specialize in the Middle East high-tech sector policy world.