Jaime Stansbury
Vice President
Ms. Jaime Stansbury is a Vice President at The Cohen Group, co-leading the firm’s Middle East Practice and strategic partnership with DLA Piper. She helps companies across sectors — energy, healthcare, tech, defense, and water — understand geopolitics and policies that drive strategic decision making. Whether a company is entering a market for the first time, has an established presence, or is considering a new strategy, she helps clients navigate the complexities of doing business, one relationship at time.
Ms. Stansbury joined The Cohen Group in 2022. Trained as a management consultant, Ms. Stansbury previously spent over 20 years living and working internationally. In 2010, she stood-up a program between the United States and Saudi Arabia to protect critical infrastructure vital to the global economy. As the founder of the first international women’s business group in Saudi Arabia, she advanced women’s leadership during a time of unprecedented societal change. After serving on the Board of Directors for the American Chamber of Commerce, she became the organization’s first Executive Director in 2020. It transformed from an informal business network into a professional nonprofit serving over 200 companies across three chapters under her leadership.
A first-generation college graduate, Ms. Stansbury is passionate about helping nontraditional students study abroad. She holds a master’s degree in business from Indiana University and in Arab studies from Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service. Ms. Stansbury is also a Non-resident Fellow at the Atlantic Council, where she speaks and writes on economics and society in the Middle East. She recently authored a children’s book about a summer road trip her family took across Saudi Arabia called, “I Wanna Go.”