- Chapter VI · Geography

Four countries.One thread.

Anando community-development, Bangladesh, 1996

01 · Bangladesh

Foundations · 1997-1999

Anando · peace & development

BSS and MSS in Sociology from the University of Dhaka. Full-time work at Anando, a peace and development non-profit; Professor Abdullah Al Amin served as Executive Director. This period framed an early conviction that business exists in service of communities.

02 · Saudi Arabia

1999-2014 · Dammam

Corporate practice at scale

Marketing Officer at WESCOSA (multiple Quality Awards) and HR & Training Development Lead at EIC - building a training function for 2,000+ staff and supporting EIC's 2013 Tadawul IPO. Later returned through Bradford training programmes at Riyadh Cables and MEBCO.

WESCOSA office, Dammam, 1999
Bahrain project & business meeting, 2016

03 · Bahrain

2014-present · Manama

Enterprise across borders

Chair & Co-Founder of Leicester Bahrain (LBCO) and Strategic Advisor of Bradford Consultancy, USA - leading engagements across Europe, the Far East and the GCC in training, project delivery, BPR and market research.

04 · United Kingdom

2018-present · London

Scholarship & reinvention

PhD (2024), lectureships in finance, marketing and global business, and mentoring under the UK Government's Help to Grow: Management programme - where scholarship, teaching and counsel now meet on the same table.

National Mentoring Conference, London, 2025

- Bahrain . additional professional engagement

Academia, industry & public leadership.

Selected professional interactions in Bahrain across corporate, academic and civic contexts.

Corporate discussion, Bahrain

Corporate discussion, Bahrain

Dialogue between academia, industry and public leadership in Bahrain, 2015

Dialogue between academia, industry and public leadership, Bahrain, 2015

- Wider international engagement

Beyond the four principal chapters.

Beyond his principal career locations, Dr Alam's international client and professional relationships have extended across Europe, East Asia and the Middle East through consultancy, executive education, business development and collaborative professional engagements - including Italy, Korea and China.

AlBaraka Summit, London

AlBaraka Summit, London

Bank of Scotland professional event

Bank of Scotland event

Business event with French Ambassador, meet the press

Business event - French Ambassador & press

India peace and non-violence engagement, Lucknow, 1999

India - peace & non-violence engagement, Lucknow, 1999

Early international foundations

Community, peace and development engagement in South Asia during the earliest career period - the intellectual origin for a lifelong pattern of international professional relationships.