About Layla

Layla is from Beirut, studied economics at Sciences Po in Paris, and works at an international financial institution in Amsterdam. This is a career arc that tells you something about her intelligence and her taste for complexity — she is drawn to situations with many moving parts and has the instinct to navigate them with apparent ease. Beirut gave her Arabic, French, and English, and the particular social intelligence that comes from growing up in a city that has always required people to read the room at speed. Her evenings have a quality that is hard to describe until you have experienced it: organised pleasure — nothing is left to chance, but nothing feels arranged. VIP evenings are where she is most at home, where the standard is high and the details are attended to. She is 27, carries herself with the composed confidence of someone who is used to being the most prepared person in the room, and has a warmth that emerges slowly and is therefore worth waiting for. Clients describe evenings with her as the standard they measure others against.

Where Layla travels