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.
Fifteen final year students from the Department of Political Science at UAE University in Al Ain visited the Gulf Research Center and received a comprehensive briefing on international politics.
GRC received two guests from the Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies in Brunei Darussalam – Mr. Hamzah Sulaiman, Director and Capt. Erwan Haji Ibrahim, Scholarship and Training Officer. Possible avenues of future cooperation were discussed
Mr. Mvuleni Geoffrey Qhena, Chief Executive Officer of the Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa, visited the GRC. Information on different investment opportunities in both the Gulf and the whole of Africa were exchanged. Also, talks about further cooperation between the two institutions were initiated which 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.
