Team

Ms. Wala Budri 

Founder & President 

Wala Budri is a real estate and urban development strategist with over 15+ experince working at the intersection of business strategy, PropTech, private sector, housing, and frontier market investment across Africa. She is the founder of ARADDI, Sudan’s first PropTech and real estate firm, which she built from the ground up into a profitable, multi-vertical business — spanning consulting, brokerage, and property management.

Her work is grounded from real life experience in entrepreurship and the conviction that Africa’s real estate and housing markets are not underdeveloped for lack of ideas or ambition, but for lack of capital and innovative policies built for their actual risk profile. Her writing and advisory work focus on what it takes to close that gap — from housing market analytics and public-private partnership design to the realities of building tech-enabled real estate businesses in capital-constrained, high-volatility environments.

Wala holds a Master of Arts in International Affairs from Columbia University, with a specialization in Urban Policy and Advanced Management, and a Bachelor of Arts in International Development from UCLA. She is fluent in Arabic and English and has worked across Sudan, Liberia, the United States, and the wider East African region.

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Dr. Hamid El Bashir 

Senior Partner 

Dr. Hamid El-Bashir Ibrahim brings over three decades of leadership across academia, applied research, and international development to ARADDI Institute. He spent much of his career with UNICEF, serving as Country Representative in Eritrea, Zambia, and Sierra Leone, Deputy Country Representative in Romania, Chief of Field Office in Madhya Pradesh, India, and Senior Advisor to UNICEF’s Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa — where he shaped the organization’s strategic partnerships with the League of Arab States, the African Union, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, and IGAD. His field experience spans ten countries, including several affected by conflict and civil war, from Sudan and South Sudan to the Caucasus and West Africa.

Before his UN career, Dr. Hamid was a Lecturer and Assistant Professor of Sociology and Social Anthropology at the University of Khartoum, Ahfad University for Women, and Cairo University’s Khartoum branch. He holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Connecticut, alongside postgraduate diplomas in Human Rights (Institute of Social Studies, The Hague), Demography and Population Studies (Cairo Demographic Center), and Regional Development and Planning (University of Khartoum). He is a published author on conflict, land tenure, pastoralism, and social change in Sudan and the wider Sahel, including The Savannah Ablaze: Root Causes of Civil War in Western Sudan and In Search of the Lost Wisdom: Civil War in the Nuba Mountains.

At ARADDI Institute, Dr. Hamid provides strategic and governance leadership, drawing on his deep experience in post-conflict development, government partnership-building, and institutional leadership across fragile and transitional states..

Ms. Layla Mohamed

Research Coordinator

Focused on data-driven insights, she advances technical methodologies for sustainable urban growth.

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