Karl Nader

Managing Director

AlixPartner Middle East

Karl Nader is the new Managing Director of AlixPartner Middle East since September 2018 where he is in charge of boosting the firm’s strategic presence in the region and helping its clients transform, grow and protect their business during times of extreme pressures and uncertainty in a volatile market.   Karl is a specialist in consumer goods, retailing and distribution.  

Previously, Karl was a Partner with Strategy& and the co-leader of the firm’s Consumer and Retail business in the Middle East.  Karl led Strategy&’s Fit for Growth platform in the Middle East and specialized in the consumer goods (mainly food companies), distributor, and retailer submarkets.  Karl has authored the reports “Retail analytics: The route to improved profitability for Middle East retailers” and “Private label: Untapped opportunity for GCC retailers”. 

Before his tenures in the Middle East, Karl was a Senior Consultant for Accenture in their U.K. retail practice and was an analyst at AEA Technology.  

Karl holds a B.Sc. in mathematics, operations research, statistics, and economics from the University of Warwick and an M.Sc. in operations research from the University of Lancaster.