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The Ideation Center is Booz & Company’s leading think tank in the Middle East providing thought leadership based on insightful research that is revealing and innovative, determined analysis that is focused on the salient topics in the region, engaged dialogue that is true to the Middle East and ascertained ideas that can make a difference.
The Ideation Center provides insights to challenges facing policy makers and business leaders based on Booz & Company’s long and unrivaled experience with both the public and the private sectors across many countries and different economies in the Middle East and around the world. By combining analytical research with hands-on expertise from the professional community, we are able to deliver bold and lasting ideas that are unique in their intellectual dimension—true to the Booz & Company mission.
The creation of the Ideation Center comes at a crossroads of major changes in the Middle East. Rapid socioeconomic transformation foretells about an exciting future for the region and its development prospects. Through its intellectual capital and thought leadership, the Ideation Center stands ready to contribute to the advancement of the Middle East region by sharing and debating pioneering ideas, asking important questions and delivering enduring results. This puts us in the center of all the action, and allows us to expand our knowledge of and contribution to the issues that are important to this region and indeed to the rest of the world.
Author Profile
Hatem Samman is the Director of the Booz & Company Ideation Center. He is based in the Middle East. As a lead economist, he has written extensively on policy issues across diverse economic sectors.

