GRC was founded in July 2000 by Dr. Abdulaziz Sager, a Saudi businessman. Dr. Sager's vision was to fill an important void and to conduct scholarly, high quality research on all aspects of the wider strategic Gulf region including the GCC countries as well as Iran, Iraq and Yemen.
GRC operates on an independent, non-profit basis. Its belief is that everyone has the right to access knowledge, so it has made all its research available to the general public through publications, workshops, seminars, and conferences.
As a non-profit organization, GRC injects all income back into new programs and activities.
To be the leading think tank on Gulf affairs worldwide.
To provide an Arab Gulf perspective on regional and global developments in order to promote regional peace and stability and positively influence the policy processes of local, regional and external actors.
GRC believes that the peace, security, prosperity and sustainability of the Gulf region is the right of its people, together with the right of everyone to have access to knowledge.
