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