Ambassadors

Oscar Wendel is a journalist, strategist, and founder of Global Stratalogues—a think tank launched in 2024 that has hosted high-impact roundtables in partnership with the UK Parliament, the UAE Government entity DMCC at Davos, Qatar Financial Centre at the Qatar Economic Forum, the Saudi Ministry of Culture at the Venice Biennale, and the French Ministry of Economy for the Vision Golfe Summit.

He previously served as Senior Content Manager at the Financial Times in London before relocating to Dubai in 2008 to launch the conference division at ITP Media Group, the Middle East’s largest business publishing house. During the UAE’s period of rapid development, Oscar pioneered thought leadership formats and policy roundtables with GCC governments focused on worker welfare and fire life safety, partnering with international labor unions, UN agencies, and regulatory stakeholders to co-create meaningful dialogue. He later led conference programming at Dubai World Trade Centre, overseeing the programming at global flagship events such as GITEX, the world’s largest technology exhibition, and Gulfood, the world’s largest annual food trade show.

As a journalist, Wendel has reported from Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya. These experiences shaped his understanding of infrastructure, resilience, and the human dynamics of economic systems. In the innovation space, Oscar co-founded ASTROCOOL with cryptography pioneer David Chaum, exploring lunar-dust cooling technologies for climate engineering, and founded the Intraplanetary Anthem project at COP28.  Currently, Oscar serves as Editor-at-Large at MEA-Finance, the leading banking sector publication in the Middle East, and is a regular contributor to Unlock-Blockchain. He also serves as an advisor to Karrier One, a decentralized telecom operator extending cellular connectivity to underserved regions.