Hany Ghanem is a nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Rafik Hariri Center & Middle East programs. He is a financial services professional based in Washington, DC, serving as associate director in the Client Intelligence Group at UBS. In this role, he is responsible for identifying, analyzing, and mitigating various risks within the Swiss financial institution’s US wealth management business.

Before joining UBS, Ghanem advanced his career at investment firm Cambridge Associates as a senior investment associate in the Business Risk Management Group, where he led its corporate intelligence practice. Earlier, as a research manager at Exiger—a risk technology and advisory firm—he provided critical insights to both corporate and government clients.

In addition to his expertise in financial services risk management, Ghanem has contributed to award-winning journalism. His research and translation work have featured on notable platforms such as VICE News and Last Week Tonight. He began his career in the Middle East, working first at Unilever Mashreq and later at the Arab Petroleum Pipelines Company, also called SUMED, an Aramco-Mubadala oil and gas subsidiary, where he managed client accounts and successfully pitched multimillion-dollar expansion projects.

Ghanem holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from the Arab Academy for Science and Technology and a Master of Arts in global risk from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.