A delegation of Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Netherlands came to the GRC including Pieter de Gooijer, Director-General for Political Affairs; Joan J.J. Wiegman, Deputy Head for Nuclear Affairs and Non-Proliferation Division; Dr. Jeroen Boender, Senior Policy Officer in Political Affairs Department; Herman Quarles van Ufford, Head of the Gulf States Division in the North Africa and Middle East Department and Gilles Beschoor Plug, Ambassador of the Netherlands to the UAE. The visit covered a discussion about the regional security environment in particular with regard to the issue of the Iranian nuclear program.
George Costoulas, Ambassador of Greece to the UAE, visited the GRC to discuss aspects of cooperation between the GRC and Greek institutions as well to look into the overall Greek-Gulf relationship
Delegation from CSIS
A delegation of sixteen foreign policy professionals from the United States visited the Gulf Research Center as part of a Gulf Study Tour organized under the auspices of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) of Washington, DC. The group was headed by Dr. Jon B. Alterman, Senior Fellow and Director of the Middle East program at CSIS.
A range of subjects were discussed but the main focus of the meeting was on issues relating to Iran and Iraq and the implications of the current situation vis-à-vis the Gulf region. Potential future developments in the region were also addressed. The delegation consisted of:
-Jon Alterman, Director and Senior Fellow of the CSIS Middle East Program.
-Rand Beers, President of the National Security Network.
-Max Boot, Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
-Gregory Brosman, Program Coordinator and Research Assistant in the CSIS
Middle East Program.
-Mackenzie Eaglen, Senior Policy Analyst for defense and homeland security
issues at The Heritage Foundation.
-Richard Falkenrath, Deputy Commissioner for counter-terrorism in the New
York City Police Department.
-Matt Gobush, Manager for Executive Communications at ExxonMobil
Corporation.
-Ken Juster, Executive Vice President of law, policy, and corporate strategy
at Salesforce.com.
-Rachel Kleinfeld, Founder and Executive Director of the Truman National
Security Project.
-Haim Malka, Deputy Director and Fellow of the CSIS Middle East Program.
-Peter Ogden, Senior Policy Analyst for national security and international
policy at the Center for American Progress.
-Mitchell B. Reiss, Vice Provost for International Affairs and Professor of Law
and Government at the College of William & Mary.
-Mara Rudman, Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and
President of Quorum Strategies.
-Danny Sebright, Associate Vice President at the Cohen Group.
-Dan Shapiro, Vice President of Timmons and Company, Inc.
-Lee Wolosky, Partner at Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP and Adjunct Professor
in International Affairs at Columbia University.
Volker Nienhaus – President University of Marburg
Ali Ahmed Saleh, Consul General of the United Republic of Tanzania and Amb Mohammed M H Mzale, Director of Middle East Dept, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Internal Cooperation, Dar es Salaam.
