Dr. Hasan Shafi is a Partner based in our Dubai office.  He is a core member of the Energy & Utilities (ENUT) and Chemicals practices.  Hasan consulted clients in the oil/gas, chemicals, utilities, agri-business, and industrial goods and services sectors. Functionally, Hasan’s expertise is in corporate portfolio and growth strategies, large-scale performance transformation (EBITDA, cost, procurement, and supply chain), and end-to-end M&A. Increasingly Hasan has been helping clients with their digital and energy transition agendas.  
  
Hasan has also worked in the industry. He led strategy, planning, M&A, and transformation for Nuplex (now under Allnex), then a listed global specialty chemicals company based out of Sydney, Australia.  In his formative days, he led technology service operations as the lead engineering for Schlumberger in the Asia Pacific region. 

Hasan has been working with tech start-ups. He is interested in technology, in particular AI, blockchain, and advanced analytics.  The start-ups he supports one is in AI (with applications for oil/gas asset management) and the other in blockchain (for payments and security applications).  Hasan also worked as a Defence Scientist with the Australian Defence Science organization.

Hasan has a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Newcastle in Australia, BSc degree in Aeronautical Engineering from the Middle East Technical University in Turkey.  Hasan completed an EMBA degree from the Ross School of Business from the University of Michigan in the USA.  Hasan is a certified company director and supports non-profit boards.