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The Bourse & Bazaar Foundation is a think tank committed to economic development, economic diplomacy, and economic justice in West Asia. Established in October 2020 as a non-profit entity in the United Kingdom, the Foundation began as a digital publisher of the same name in 2015.
Our work imagines security, prosperity, sustainability, and cultural flourishing in the region spanning from Turkey to Afghanistan and from Yemen to Kazakhstan. This region, which we call West Asia, is home to around 600 million people. Today, West Asia is charting a new course as a politically ambitious, economically integrated, and socially dynamic region. Against this backdrop, our research and convenings help policymakers, business leaders, and civil society stakeholders to understand critical events and trends and to identify further pathways for inclusive and sustainable development.
Our work is distinguished by the following principles:
We focus on economic issues, ranging from national development models to the daily challenges of ordinary people. We believe that a disproportionate focus on security and political challenges in policy circles has prevented more holistic visions for West Asian advancement.
We are innovative, producing research and analysis that offers new and incisive perspectives on the economic, political, and social remaking of West Asia.
We are intensely collaborative, working in partnership with leading institutions in West Asia and across the world to produce new research and to build networks of likeminded people.
We actively create opportunities for the next generation of researchers and scholars to contribute to policy formation in West Asia at the highest levels.
The Bourse & Bazaar Foundation is a grant-funded organization. We have been generously supported by some of the world’s leading institutional donors. We are committed to transparency regarding these grants. In every instance, we have maintained strict editorial independence. We seek grant support for the projects we imagine and implement and are never directed by our donors. To learn more about how the work of the Bourse & Bazaar Foundation is funded, please visit the Our Funding page.
Our leadership and policy fellows oversee the think tank’s development and are responsible for research and advocacy conducted in collaboration with analysts and researchers from around the world.
Our board includes leaders with a depth of practical experience in issues of economic development, economic diplomacy, and economic justice in the Middle East and Central Asia.
Our visiting fellows are talented scholars and analysts who advance the Bourse & Bazaar Foundation’s research and advocacy. Visiting fellows receive funding to enable them to conduct a major research project while also producing articles and participating in events that help increase the understanding of policymakers and the general public on issues of economic diplomacy, economic development, and economic justice in the Middle East and Central Asia.
The Bourse & Bazaar Foundation provides financial support to early career scholars and analysts undertaking novel research. This funding usually results in the publication of a special report, an article series, or a multimedia output that helps make this research accessible for a wide range of audiences.
