Who we are
Level 5 Consulting Group is a specialist advisory firm with over 30 years of experience in development, recovery, and economic transformation, built on deep field engagement in the Middle East and expanded across Africa, Asia, and Europe. We work in the places that are hardest to reach and hardest to get right.
Our positioning
We bridge the gap between policy and implementation, ensuring that strategies are grounded in operational reality and capable of delivering measurable impact. Our focus areas include:
Our clients return to us, across countries, programs, and years, because we deliver findings they can act on and relationships they can rely on.
Our evolution
Level 5 was founded on direct field experience in the Middle East, one of the world's most demanding development environments. From that foundation, we have grown into a regional firm with offices in Istanbul, Muscat, and Palestine, delivering assignments across more than 20 countries.
Our commitment
We do not offer opinions dressed as analysis. Every recommendation is grounded in rigorous, mixed-methods research adapted to the context, including environments where data is scarce and access is restricted. Our work generates insights decision-makers can act on, not reports that sit on shelves.
Our value depends entirely on our independence. We provide objective, frank advice, including when findings are inconvenient or challenge existing assumptions. We have delivered difficult findings to major donors and UN agencies alike, and we stand behind our analysis.
We measure success by what changes as a result of our work, not by the document we produce. That means supporting the uptake of findings, building partners' capacity to use evidence, and designing recommendations that are sequenced, costed, and realistic.
Our approach
Our approach is not a template; it is a set of principles that we apply with discipline and adjust to the specific demands of each assignment.
Explore our servicesBefore any analytical framework is applied, we invest in understanding the political economy, institutional landscape, and operational constraints of the environment. In conflict-prone zones, the conditions that shape what is possible are fundamentally different from those in stable contexts.
Our designs follow OECD/DAC standards and international best practice, while adapting data collection when field access is limited, security shifts mid-assignment, or populations are displaced. We do not sacrifice quality; we find ways to deliver it under pressure.
We engage government counterparts, implementing partners, community representatives, and beneficiaries in ways that build ownership. Findings co-produced with key actors have a measurably higher uptake rate than external verdicts.
Level 5 is structured to support clients from needs assessment and program design through implementation support, monitoring, and final evaluation, maintaining analytical continuity and institutional memory across phases.
Operating in conflict-affected and fragile states requires judgment to navigate institutional sensitivities, flexibility to adapt when conditions change, and the experience to know which approaches have worked in comparable environments.
Leadership & expertise
Founding Director, Level 5 Consulting Group
A senior international development advisor with over 30 years of experience in development, recovery, and economic transformation across fragile and emerging contexts. He has a proven track record of leading complex, multi-sector assignments funded by USAID, the World Bank, the European Union, and a wide range of United Nations agencies, including UNRWA, UNESCO, UNICEF, UNHCR, UNDP, ILO, UNOPS, and UNFPA, as well as bilateral and multilateral partners such as GIZ, KfW, FCDO, DANIDA, SIDA, AFD, SDC, and JICA.
His experience includes the management and oversight of high-value programs exceeding USD 200 million, alongside large-scale, multi-country assignments in complex and high-risk environments. He applies evidence-based participatory approaches aligned with OECD/DAC criteria across strategic planning, institutional strengthening, policy advisory, private sector development, and the humanitarian, development, and peace nexus.
Beyond our core team, Level 5 Consulting maintains a robust global network of professional consultants and sector specialists, deployed across the world and matched to each assignment.
Our practice draws on deep, hands-on expertise across the disciplines most critical to fragile and emerging contexts.
Global presence
Level 5 Consulting Group operates across approximately 20 countries worldwide, delivering advisory and technical assignments in diverse and complex environments, with a strong focus on fragile, conflict-affected, and emerging contexts.
Clients & partners
We work with a diverse portfolio of international and national partners, including United Nations agencies, multilateral institutions, bilateral donors, governments, NGOs, and international consulting firms. Our engagements span multiple regions and reflect sustained trust, repeated collaboration, and consistent delivery in complex environments.
These partnerships are characterized by long-term collaboration, multi-country engagement, and a consistent focus on delivering high-quality, evidence-based advisory services.
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Whether you are planning a new assignment, seeking a trusted evaluation partner, or exploring collaboration, we welcome the conversation.
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