Adel has expertise in cybersecurity governance, especially in the Western Balkans. His interests circle around public-private partnerships in cybersecurity, awareness-raising methods in this field, and different legislative and strategic frameworks for cybersecurity governance in Europe. Prior to his current engagement at the PwC Serbia, where he is part of the cybersecurity governance team of the PwC CEE network, Adel worked as a Project Coordinator at the Geneva Centre for Security Sector Governance (DCAF) where he also dealt with cybersecurity governance in Serbia and the Western Balkans region, whereas his previous experience includes working for the OSCE Mission to Serbia, where he developed the cybersecurity portfolio of the Mission and a number of civil society organisations dealing with security sector governance. Adel is a recipient of the 2019 UK Foreign  Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) Chevening Fellowship for Cybersecurity in the Western Balkans and a French Government scholarship for undertaking an MA in European Politics and Administration at the College of Europe in Bruges (2007/2008).