Aladin

Skills Offered

• - Strategic Marketing
• - Business Development
• - Concept Development

Personal Introduction

aladin practises as a consultant and catalyst across fields and disciplines, developing processes and methodologies fundamental to a resilient, self-sustaining civil society. In 2011 he provided strategic counsel to a range of collaborators, including: Fogo Island Arts Corporation, 'The Changing Room: Arab Praxis and Times'/Venice Biennale 2011 Parallel Project; Borkowksi.Do; Bdnews24.com amongst others. "Pimpmycause.org is a blindingly effective way for practitioners to band together to create outcomes and benefits which impact beyond their own, immediate stake-holdings. At the heart of the approach is a knowledge culture that is constantly built and re-built as each partner shares and acquires expertise and experience, thereby forging new possibilities and approaches. Of course I wish to play my part in all this - an enterprise which enables all of us to be winners, without needing to give up our core concerns. I admire the vision and competency of Paul Skinner, Pimpymycause's Founder/Director, and have agreed to provide him and the cause with strategic counsel on an indefinite basis." "Throw": Portrait of aladin:by Ian Greaves @ BigBlueWorld 2011. Creative Commons - may freely be used with attribution.

Qualifications

• London School of Economics

• Advanced Post Graduate Research

• Economics and International Relations

• London School of Economics (Commonwealth Fellowship)

• Various short courses in Counselling

• Groupwork

• Psychotherapy and Brief Intervention (Goldsmiths College

• Institute for Psychosynthesis etc.)

• B.Sc. Econ. (Hons.) Economics and International Relations

Experience

aladin has led on the development of the world's first integrated strategic plan for the culture, media, sport, arts, heritage and tourism of a capital city [as Co-Chair of the Cultural Strategy Group at London's City Hall 2000-4], advised on the debt reschedulings of Brazil and Mexico, set up youth and community development processes on housing estates in Peckham/Camberwell (London) in parallel with housing estates in La Paillade/Montpelier (France) - and has directed and realised creative interventions on sites ranging from the Institute of Contemporary Arts (London) to non-sanctioned spaces (also in collaboration with the unconventional homelessness action projects Cardboard Citizens and CRISIS). Details at www.aladin.me