Dr. Ewald Boehlke and Gerhard Mattrisch of the Daimler Society & Technology Research Group in Berlin visited GRC to discuss issues of GCC transport and social developments.
Amb. Cheong Yip Seng
Ambassador designate of the Republic of Singapore to Qatar
Mr. Dilip Nair
Consul-General of the Republic of Singapore, Dubai, UAE
Mr. Stephen Lim
Assistant Director, Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia Directorate
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Singapore
As part of a Business Study Mission to the Gulf region, a group of 30-plus students from the School of Social Sciences division of the Singapore Management University (SMU) visited the GRC where they were briefed about the political, economic and security dimensions of the Gulf region. The delegation was led by Dr. Caroline Yeoh, Associate Professor of the Lee Kong Chian School of Business of SMU and was accompanied by two representatives from Raffles Junior College.
Dr. Jürgen Brücker, Associate Dean for International relations and CEMS Academic Director of the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland to talk about cooperation between the University of St. Gallen and the GRC in terms of academic programs and Gulf student participation.
Ms. Wendy Luhabe, Chairman of the International Marketing Council and of the Industrial Development Corporation in South Africa and Chancellor of the University of Johannesburg, visited the GRC. As the GRC has just launched the GCC-Africa research program, opportunities for long-term cooperation were discussed particularly in regards to the Gulf-Africa Strategy Forum organized by the GRC in Cape Town on 24-25 February 2009.
Thomas Hazard, Director, national Capital region of the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) in Monterey, California along with Mr. Walter Christman, Liaison for the US Department of Defense to talk about collaboration between the GRC and the NPS
