Muneeb Ansari

Muneeb Ansari is the Founding Partner of Stratfield Partners, a strategic advisory firm based in Mumbai with a second office in Riyadh. He advises companies, governments and institutions on public affairs and government relations, regulatory standards and certification, strategic communications, and crisis and issues management.

He has more than two decades of experience across the advisory and client sides of the profession, previously as Director of Public Affairs at Brunswick Group, Managing Director for Campaigns and Public Affairs at C|T Group, Director of Public Affairs at APCO Worldwide, and Senior Manager for Corporate Affairs at Tata Motors.

He comments on India's regulatory environment, industrial and investment policy, India and Gulf business ties, and corporate reputation.

Muneeb Ansari is the Founding Partner of Stratfield Partners, the strategic advisory firm he founded to give organisations facing regulatory, political and reputational pressure access to senior counsel rather than junior execution. The firm operates from Mumbai and Riyadh.

He has spent more than two decades in public affairs and strategic communications, on both the advisory and the client side. Before founding Stratfield he was Director of Public Affairs at Brunswick Group, and previously Managing Director for Campaigns and Public Affairs at C|T Group and Director of Public Affairs at APCO Worldwide. Earlier he spent eight years inside Tata Motors as Senior Manager for Corporate Affairs, following roles at SKODA India and Fiat.

His practice sits where commercial decisions meet public consequence. A regulatory change that reshapes a market. A government decision that needs shaping before it is taken. A crisis where the audience is a ministry rather than a customer. An investment that needs political and community consent before it can proceed.

Stratfield Partners LLP

Stratfield Partners is a strategic advisory firm with offices in Mumbai and Riyadh. It advises companies, governments and institutions operating in India and the Gulf on four practice areas: public affairs and government relations; regulatory standards and certification advisory, including Bureau of Indian Standards licensing and Quality Control Orders; strategic communications; and crisis and issues management.

The firm combines senior strategic counsel with local expertise, and its senior bench includes a former Scientist G at the Bureau of Indian Standards and a former Joint Secretary in the Government of India.