Global Policy Advisors® was founded in 2005 by Salar Ghahramani, an associate professor of business law and international law & policy at a research university in Pennsylvania. He previously served as a researcher at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C., and was a management consultant at the Corporate Executive Board (CEB), now a part of Gartner, where he advised Fortune 500 clients on business strategy.