Shraddha is an experienced hand in strategic consulting / intelligence, crisis management and risk analysis for business, corporate and international organizations. She is Managing Partner at Confluence Consultants, a geopolitical risk, business intelligence & market access consultancy in Dubai. In her last corporate avatar, Shraddha was the Co-Founder & CEO of Intelligentsia Risk Advisors, a strategy consulting firm that aims to facilitate ‘ease of doing business' by managing and mitigating geopolitical, social, operational and security risks, and she previously headed the Asia-Pacific Intelligence team for Barclays Bank PLC, analyzing geopolitical risks for the Asia-Pacific and the Middle East and their impact on business decisions, operational continuity and crisis response. She graduated from the London School of Economics with distinction in Comparative Politics.