Middle East Updates & Developments

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Essential insights and expert guidance to help you navigate the evolving landscape in the Middle East

To save you time, we’ve collated the most up-to-date briefings, alerts, and strategic advice from our trusted Partner network. Bookmark this page as your central resource for understanding how these regional developments impact your Global Mobility programme and your assignees.
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Latest Partner Updates

Please see below for all the latest updates and tools from our Expert Partners

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Newland Chase

The latest travel and immigration guidance from Newland Chase.

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Magrath Sheldrick

Magrath Sheldrick provides high-level guidance relevant to your immigration and residency matters. 

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Bournes Relocation

 Bournes Relocation provides the latest information on disruption to shipping and global relocation. 

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Sterling Lexicon

Sterling Lexicon shares their industry alert detailing the key impacts on relocation and logistics. 

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Mercer

Mercer offers a framework to help organisations navigate complex crises effectively.

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AIRINC

 AIRINC provides insights into emergency response planning for internationally mobile employees. 

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Santa Fe Relocation

Santa Fe provides an operational update on conditions affecting logistics activity across parts of the Middle East. 

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Gerson Relocation

Gerson Relocation provides an advisory on evolving conditions that may impact the movement of household goods and personal effects. 

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Urgent Guidance

 If your situation is critical, please reach out to the Expat Academy team. We can assist you by connecting you with other members to help, providing our own experienced guidance or quickly put you in touch with our sponsoring partners who have the technical expertise to assist you. 

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Reach out to one of our Corporate Client Services team below if you need any advice and guidance

Chris Blair

Chris Blair

Director

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Greg Smith

Head of European Client Services

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Roxy Opas

Head of UK Client Services

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Chris Blair

Chris Blair

Director

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Chris is an experienced Global Mobility professional. His most recent in-house role was at Aviva where he managed intra UK, EMEA, APAC and Americas moves. Prior to that Chris held roles as a HR generalist, following 8 Years of being a Youth Worker with The Salvation Army. Chris manages the Expat Academy Vanguard networks and has a strategic focus on our growth in the US and the Netherlands.

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Greg Smith

Greg Smith

Head of European Client Services

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Greg has in-house Global Mobility experience spanning aerospace and defence, education, and tobacco sectors. His most recent role was leading the European region for Lockheed Martin's Global Mobility activities, designing and implementing their EU Posted Worker compliance. Greg manages the Expat Academy Global Heads and Banking networks and has a strategic focus on our growth in Germany. Outside of work Greg is married with two crazy kids and a cat who turned out to be the biggest breed of domestic cat in the world. Greg likes wine, watches, cars, and supports Southampton FC.

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Roxy Opas

Roxy Opas

Head of UK Client Services

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Roxy has experience managing in-house GM functions across different sectors. Her last role was managing the UK & Ireland GM for Danone and prior to that she was leading the Global GM Team at Merlin Entertainments. Roxy has a degree in Psychology and spent a year mentoring within the UK prison system before looking for a career in the GM world.  Roxy plays a key role in managing Expat Academy's UK members and our Banking Network. She loves anything to do with dogs, crafts or food!

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