Ali Roman & Company

Founder Dr. Ali H. Akhtar—American Consultant and Professor at AUI: Akhawayn University in Ifrane (US-Accredited by NECHE)

Ali Roman & Co. is a boutique Business and Education Consultancy specializing in Tech-Driven Research for American, European, and Asian industry leaders active in North Africa & the Middle East. We harness AI-powered technologies to optimize marketing, expand business operations, and build educational partnerships. Our clients are Fortune 500 companies, edtech companies, universities, museums, and international organizations, and include: Netflix, IXL Learning, NYU Abu Dhabi, De Gruyter Brill, the Worcester Art Museum, UNDP, and World Bank.

Founder Dr. Ali H. Akhtar PhD (Cornell, NYU) is an American professor at Akhawayn University in Morocco and 3x bestselling author featured in the Wall Street Journal, with an academic commitment to innovation and international development across North Africa and the Middle East. He is also an award-winning book editor for publishers including Cornell University Press and De Gruyter Brill, the EU's largest academic publisher (Leiden & Berlin).

The consultancy's Legal Counsel Sherif Farrag, Esq. (Columbia, Fordham), an Olympic fencer and expert in sports law, provides strategic advisory that strengthens our mission and framework.

Ali Roman & Co. is supported by student researchers  at Akhawayn University in Morocco with training in marketing, business analytics, and computer science (Python, Java, C, R, SQL, and new AI technologies). Current projects include social media API data analysis (Python, R, Tableau,  Apify) and neural machine translation (DeepL, Gemini).

Explore the About page for more information on our services. For inquiries, write to our founder Dr. Akhtar or connect on LinkedIn:

Email: ali@aliroman.co.uk 
LinkedIn: Ali H. Akhtar, PhD