Isabella Williamson is an emerging technologies strategist at Consulum. She advises key public sector stakeholders in the GCC region and beyond on the implications of the Virtual Worlds, Extended Reality, Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence for their organization from a strategy, policy and communications perspective. She is the author of Consulum's publication, 'Enter the Metaverse: Time for governments to be bold ' and choose wisely' and is conducting first-of-its-kind research into how governments are approaching the Metaverse.