Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia is not just reforming — it is rebuilding the architecture of a nation. That requires more than technology. It requires governance design, execution capability, and institutions that can carry transformation from vision into reality. That is the work I do. As CEO of Sanam Advisory, I focus on three things: institutional architecture, AI and digital strategy, and the executive capacity to deliver both — working with ministries, public authorities and academic institutions across the Kingdom. Our principle is simple: technology alone does not transform institutions. Architecture does. I bring this work not as a visitor, but as someone who has made a long-term commitment to this region — with my family based in Riyadh and partnerships anchored in trust, not transactions. My current focus areas: • Institutional AI integration into decision and governance systems • Strategic academic partnerships that bridge international research depth with Saudi-led institutional ambition • Program and PMO architecture for large-scale national initiatives As Presidential Advisor and Senior Lecturer at the German University of Digital Science (GUDS), I also work at the interface of policy, research and applied transformation. Sanam Advisory is the exclusive Saudi Arabia partner of Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College — bringing one of the world's leading schools of information systems, public policy and management directly into the Kingdom's institutional agenda. Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030 is one of the most ambitious institutional projects of our time. I am here to help build it — from the inside.
Sanam Advisory is the exclusive Saudi Arabia partner of Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College, bringing the College's information systems, public policy and management expertise to the Kingdom in support of Vision 2030.
Olaf Peter Schleichert serves as Senior Lecturer and Presidential Advisor for Executive Education at the German University of Digital Science (German UDS). He is an internationally experienced executive, academic lecturer, and transformation leader with more than two decades of global experience at the intersection of strategy, artificial intelligence, data analytics, and large-scale organisational transformation. Throughout his career, he has held senior leadership roles in leading global consulting firms where he served as Partner and was instrumental in founding and leading flagship institutions in Europe.
Sanam Advisory is a Saudi-rooted advisory platform supporting institutional transformation across the Kingdom. We exist for one reason: to help Saudi institutions translate Vision 2030 from strategy into operational reality. Not through slide decks. Through architecture — the governance, the decision systems, the executive capacity, and the AI infrastructure that allow ministries and public authorities to act at the speed the Kingdom now requires. Our work sits at three intersections: — Institutional architecture for ministries, public authorities and sovereign entities. — AI and digital strategy designed to integrate into governance and decision systems, not sit beside them. — Executive capacity — the senior bench, the operating discipline, and the academic partnerships that turn ambition into delivery. We apply this across the sectors where institutional reform is most load-bearing for Vision 2030: governance and public administration, programme and PMO design for national-scale initiatives, healthcare transformation, and tourism and experience architecture. Our principle is simple: good advisory work earns the right to be invited back, not the right to be advertised. We work quietly, with a small number of institutions, for the long term. Saudi leadership at the front. Selective international partnerships behind it. Knowledge transfer built in from day one, so capability stays in the Kingdom. Sanam Advisory is anchored in Saudi Arabia. Our mission is to contribute to durable institutional capacity aligned with Vision 2030 and beyond. #SaudiArabia #Vision2030 #Advisory #InstitutionalTransformation #AI #ExecutiveEducation #PMO #Healthcare #Tourism #SanamAdvisory
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