Zaineb Al-Assam, Head of Middle East Division at Exclusive Analysis Ltd., London. Roger Tondeur, President of MCI Group, Sumaira Isaacds, Managing Director of MCI Group Middle East. Ajay Bhojwani, Director of MCI Abu Dhabi.
Dr. Andreas Schild, director general, International center for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) in Kathamandu, Nepal visited GRC to discuss possible cooperation in environmental issues
Shinichi Kadoya, President and Representative Director of Front Interrest Co. Ltd., JapanAmir Pasic, Associate Dean, Development and Alumni Relations at The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC
Ms. Mashair Ahmed Alamin and Ms. Rihad Hussain Shabo from the Society Studies Center in Khartoum, Sudan, visited the GRC. Talks about potential cooperation between the two institutions in the areas of training and research were initiated. The meeting was especially relevant as the GRC has launched its GCC-Africa research program and is organizing the Gulf-Africa Strategy Forum in Cape Town in February 2009.
On May 22 a group of Macquarie Capital Securities and other Australian fund managers visited GRC for a briefing about the GCC economies.
Nader Habib, Henry J. Leir Professor of Economics of the Middle East at Brandeis University in Massachusetts visited GRC to discuss future joint projects.
