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Founder
15 years in risk management consulting with leading firms, advising organisations across sectors. Now focused on horizon scanning and emerging risks.
About UFOQ
UFOQ means "horizon" in Arabic. We track the trends shaping the environment you operate in and trace their impact three orders deep.
In 15 years of advising organisations on risk, I kept hearing the same frustration. Teams read news, events, publications and announcements just to identify emerging risks. It was slow and costly, and blind spots remained. In a connected world, the blind spot is often in an industry that seems to have nothing to do with yours.
The idea came from a conversation with a friend about how hedge funds analyse events: not just the first impact, but the second and third. Most risk tools either look back at past incidents or far ahead at long-range scenarios. Few show what comes next if a trend keeps its momentum. That matters: CEOs now spend half their planning effort on horizons under a year (Oliver Wyman Forum and NYSE, CEO Agenda 2026).
Global publishers, consulting research (McKinsey, BCG, Bain, Oliver Wyman), institutions (WEF, OECD, UN, World Bank, IMF) and news events.
Each one is an observed change, grouped into common themes.
A theme becomes a trend only if it has several independent sources, credible evidence and recent movement.
A growing knowledge graph maps how each trend affects other sectors: first, second and third order, each labelled a risk or an opportunity.
Founder
15 years in risk management consulting with leading firms, advising organisations across sectors. Now focused on horizon scanning and emerging risks.