bahjat el-darwiche
Partner - Strategy& (Formerly Booz & Co)
Middle East
Bio
Bahjat is a Partner at Strategy& and the Technology, Media, and Telecommunications (TMT) leader for Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA). He has over 22 years of consulting experience and has led high-profile client engagements in the Middle East, Europe, Africa, North America, and South East Asia.
Bahjat has supported governments, regulatory authorities, industry bodies, and ICT public and private players in the areas of policymaking, sector development, regulatory management, and national digitization, as well as telecom service providers in corporate and business strategy, operating models, business and technology transformation, business enhancement, and infrastructure development.
Bahjat is a thought leader in the telecoms, media, and digitization space, and a regular contributor to reference industry publications and leadership panels in collaboration with the World Economic Forum, the International Telecommunications Union, INSEAD, and the SAMENA Telecommunications Council. Bahjat is a member of the Endeavor network for high impact entrepreneurship, and sits on the advisory board of Eastwood International Schools.
Bahjat earned his MSc. in Engineering (Diplôme d'Ingénieur) from the École Polytechnique in France and his Master’s in Telecommunications from Télécom ParisTech (formerly ENST) in Paris.
The global market is defined by its complexity and fluidity. To shape your future you need to make bold moves, but, of course, that takes time. And money. And people. That’s where we come in. Strategy& takes a bold and pragmatic approach to strategy. We help you see not only where you need to go, but also the choices you’ll need to make to get there, so you can forge a clear path from today’s potential to tomorrow’s promise. As the only at-scale strategy business that’s part of a global network with deep and broad capabilities expertise, we combine our strategic foresight with the experience of frontline teams across PwC to transform perspective into pragmatism, and ambition into action. The result is a strategy process powerful enough to capture possibilities that have yet to be imagined, while practical enough to ensure effective delivery. It’s the strategy that gets an organization through the changes of today and drives results that redefine tomorrow. It’s the strategy that turns vision into reality.