In this editorial, Theodore Karasik and Wayne James highlight the growing importance of food security as a public policy issue for countries of the GCC.

Assistant Professor Khalid Al Yahya appeared on the Al Bousla ("The Compass") program of CNBC Arabia television, where he commented on the importance of Governance during the crisis period.

DSG partnered with the World Bank to host a two-day workshop and launch of the recently released report “Poor Places, Thriving People: How the Middle East and North Africa can Rise above Spatial Disparity.”

Marwa El-Daly of the Waqfeyat al Maadi Community Foundation discussed the potential of local philanthropic organizations for social development in this lecture, which was supported by the Legatum Institute.

DSG, the Wolfensohn Center for Development at Brookings, and the Syria Trust for Development hosted an expert roundtable meeting in Damascus on June 13 and 14 to identify new and emerging priorities in youth-focused research and policymaking in the region.

Dr. Nasser bin Ghaith outlined the economic rationale behind increased transparency and applied the lessons to Dubai and the UAE in this Monday evening policy forum.

Assistant Professor Nicolas Depetris Chauvin published “The Rise of the Gulf: Saudi Arabia as a Global Player” in the May issue of Auslandsinformationen, the journal of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation.

"Creating and Managing Economic Competitiveness: The Saudi Arabia General Investment Authority," by Dr. Khalid Al-Yahya, has been published as Case Program 1926.0 of the Harvard Kennedy School.

DSG welcomed Ambassador Marc Grossman of the Harvard Kennedy School for a roundtable discussion on “The Future of Diplomacy.”

A group of 10 Fulbright Hays professors from the US met with scholars from DSG on Tuesday for an open discussion on development issues in the UAE and the wider GCC region.