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The Global Month Ahead: The G7 and NATO summits, Trump's Gulf tour, and the future of UK-EU energy policy

As we look ahead to June, host Sewar Quran is joined by Global Counsel colleagues to unpack three major developments shaping global politics: the G7 and NATO Summits, President Trump’s...

A new era for US-Middle East tech diplomacy?

On this week’s episode of Top in Tech, Megan Stagman, Director, is joined by GC MENA Adviser Aliyah Dar to unpack the key technology and investment developments emerging from US...

The Politics of 2025: the view from Doha

2024 was an especially turbulent and eventful year for the Middle East, even by the region’s notoriously volatile standards. The attacks of October 7th proved a catalyst for a chain...

The Global Month Ahead: confidence vote in Germany, multilateral events in the Gulf, Ghana elections

In this month's episode of the Global Month Ahead, Isabelle Trick, Associate Director in our Investor Services team, is joined by Global Counsel colleagues across our offices, including Sewar Quran...

EU and Gulf countries’ first summit: Middle East conflict and energy on the agenda

The EU-Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) summit meets today in Brussels. Attendance is at a senior level, with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia, Commission President Ursula von der...

The future of AI in the UAE

In an increasingly competitive regional landscape, the UAE emerges as a focal point for AI investment and innovation. Last week at the World Government Summit in Dubai, UAE's Minister of...

The Politics of 2024: the view from Asia, Americas, Middle East and Europe

In both corporate and investor advisory, Global Counsel's seats in Asia, the Americas, the Middle East and Europe give our teams a perspective that links the particular in each market...

Global Month Ahead: EU-China Summit, Egypt’s presidential election, Brazil’s G20 presidency

On this month’s episode, Associate Director Isabelle Trick is joined by Associate Director Alessandro Gangarossa to discuss the upcoming EU-China Summit, GC MENA Director Ahmed Helal to discuss December’s presidential...

The Politics of Food

Food - and who gets it - is in many ways one of the oldest political questions of all. Despite a radical change in our capacity to produce and distribute...

The Russia-Ukraine war threatens the MENA’s food security

As the world’s largest grain-importing region in the world, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) has felt acutely the impact of the Ukraine conflict’s disruption to global food production...

Stuck in the middle: the MENA perspective on US-China relations

This episode is part of our annual conference 'The Politics of'. This year's edition, 'The Politics of Decoupling', will present a global perspective on China’s industrial and political strategy for...