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Osman Faisal

An economist who works on the convergence points of economic theory, public policy, and artificial intelligence. He has spent over eight years building models that governments and public institutions use to make consequential decisions, arguing throughout that rigorous economics and modern computation were never meant to be separate disciplines.

Software development, economics and policy experience means that forecasting, cost-benefit analysis, fiscal and regulatory impact, and policy evaluation are all covered with rigour.

That work has spanned energy and net-zero, climate finance, labour markets, and tourism, for public institutions in the United Kingdom and the Gulf — from national climate-investment funds and workforce recruitment models to the geopolitical-risk and fiscal analysis that shapes how a city answers a crisis. Trained as an economist, he reaches for whatever the question demands: econometrics and time-series forecasting, agent-based models, machine learning, and large language models all turned toward impactful analytical work.

Today he builds the tools that put analytical capability directly in decision-makers' hands — pairing the traditional economist's toolkit with the modern computational one, and building software institutions can rely on rather than admire from a distance.

Osman Faisal
Osman FaisalFounder, Methuselah · Advisor, Bridges Data Services
Selected wins
  1. 2026

    Built an auditable group-decision engine

    Founder / lead engineer

    Designed Arbiter's structured decision process — pooled proposals, multi-round consensus, and a complete audit trail teams can defend after the fact.

  2. 2026

    Shipped a live geopolitical risk system

    Founder / lead engineer

    Designed and shipped WatchTower end to end — hourly news ingestion, an LLM evidence pipeline, and a living risk model used by tourism-policy decision-makers.

  3. 2025

    Investment case for the $1.7bn Sphere Abu Dhabi

    Senior Economist

    Built the CAPEX and OPEX modelling behind the Sphere Abu Dhabi business case, generating the economic case for investment in the $1.7bn immersive-entertainment landmark, with construction now secured for completion in 2029.

  4. 2024

    Abu Dhabi's 2023 Tourism Satellite Account

    Senior Economist

    Led production of Abu Dhabi's 2023 Tourism Satellite Account — the Emirate's headline measure of tourism's contribution to GDP — releasing the macroeconomic, financial and social analysis behind it.

  5. 2023

    Cost-benefit modelling behind the Abu Dhabi City Pass

    Senior Economist

    Produced the cost-benefit analysis and economic impact modelling that made the case for the Abu Dhabi City Pass, launched in 2023.

  6. 2021

    Business case behind a £150m climate-investment fund

    Economist

    Led the economic, environmental and financial modelling for the business case that created Mobilising Finance for Forests, a £150m UK public-sector investment fund.