Deena Abdo

Management Consultant

Deena is a British national, born and raised in the UK. She is currently a management consultant working at MENTOR Global Consultants based in Dubai, UAE. With a degree in International Development from Middlesex University, Deena was achieved the Excellence Award of top graduate from the School of Social Science, Politics, and Development.

Deena has a solid understanding of UN policies and initiatives and a strong competency for research; recently receiving a significant amount of attention for her research on social entrepreneurship which is in the process of being published.

Her research held a strong focus to monitoring and measuring social impact within social enterprises and also explored the link between social entrepreneurship and Corporate Social Responsibility. Deena has a conducted research on issues pertaining to gender and women's issues; focusing on issues related to policy and policy formulation.

Since joining MENTOR, Deena has worked with a number of leading Islamic banks within the region, successfully contributing to a series of knowledge transfer initiatives for a major acquisition involving two of the largest banks in the region. The output of such projects has been the production of numerous reports and manuals, whereby Deena was directly involved within all stages of data collection as well as documentation.

Well informed on development issues and policies within the region, Deena continues to research some of the key and fundamental development institutions from the MENA region, many of whom are within MENTORs portfolio of clients.