Get to know us

CREST is an innovative and new age consultancy committed to understanding and facilitating change. We offer policy advisories, independent analysis, advocacy and consulting solutions to our clients by empowering them to adapt to complex challenges and tapping emerging opportunities.

With CREST's diverse pool of experts possessing strong expertise across a diverse range of background our team's philosophy is deeply rooted in providing unbiased, independent insights from diverse, and key sources and special curated products to enable businesses and policy makers in a world facing uncertain or at times familiar problems that necessitate efficient and adaptive interventions.

CREST specializes in offering you services from geopolitics, energy security, geo-economics, international security and politics, multi-stakeholder dialogue, strategic communications, capacity building, emerging technologies, economics, climate change, governance, including health and education, and gender empowerment.

Our vision

A world where policy decisions are driven by foresight, empowering societies to thrive in an ever-changing future.

Our mission

We provide strategic foresight and data-driven projections to help leaders make informed policy decisions that shape a sustainable future through expert-driven future scenario analysis and policy advisement.

Usama Nizamani

Founder / executive director

Haleema Saadia

CO-Founder / MANAGING DIRECTOR RESEARCH AND OPERATIONS

Afeera Firdous

Manager communications and outreach

Ali Mustafa

SENIOR CONSULTANT

Our team

Our strength lies in synergizing our individuality for common goals. Set up by Usama Nizamani, CREST's team strives to harness experience, talents and diverse skill sets of dynamic experts with expertise from strategy, governance, economics, international security, technology, countering violent extremism, and climate change.

Basit Ali

Consultant

Huma Rehman

Senior consultant

Sajid Aziz

SENIOR CONSULTANT

Samran Ali

Consultant