Mounir Hijazi is a Senior Leadership Advisor based out of the UAE. His advisory capabilities include industry expertise especially in the Public Sector (including federal, state, municipal, social, healthcare and defence) as well as domain expertise especially around data programs and customer experience transformation.

Mounir has over 25 years of professional experience underpinned by senior business leadership roles as well as hands-on consulting work.

Mounir is also currently engaged in a number of tokenization initiatives and the associated commercialization of tokenized data. He has a keen interest to explore the potential of this domain and the possible ways it can contribute to reinventing multiple industries including the Public Sector.

Mounir started his career in the late 90s in a start -up engineering firm in Beirut, Lebanon. He then transitioned into IT consulting and professional services at the dawn of the new millennium; initially in KSA and then expanding to the UAE, Qatar and the rest of the GCC region.

Mounir spent over 18 years of his career with IBM Consulting, specializing in Strategy & Transformation consulting for the Public Sector. He left the firm in Sep 2023 as a Vice President and Senior Partner in the IBM consulting business.

Over the years, Mounir has led and delivered many consulting & systems integration assignments with a wide array of clients primarily in the Middle East but also in South Africa. He has also taken on many strategic assignments for IBM Consulting including setting up IBM’s consulting business in Qatar from 2011 to 2014, managing IBM’s consulting business in KSA in 2016/2017 and representing IBM as a Board Director for one of IBM’s key JVs in North Africa in 2022.