CEO's Message
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Since its establishment in 1976, the Gulf Organization for Industrial Consulting (GOIC) has worked to establish industrial development in member states and to enhance industrial cooperation and coordination.

It has contributed to supporting integration in the Gulf industry through many studies and reports, presenting industrial investment opportunities and joint industrial projects, and presented the first unified strategy for industrial development for the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf, which strengthened general industrial policies in the region. It also presented the Gulf industrial map that defined the industrial sectors.

H.E. Mr. Ahmed bin Mohammed Al Mohammed
CEO

The establishment of the executive office of the organization, whose membership includes the undersecretaries of ministries and industry bodies in the countries of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf, comes to enhance the role and importance of the organization in providing distinguished services that keep pace with the aspirations of member states in achieving the goals set by the agreement establishing the organization, and the internal regulations of the executive office have been approved. That regulates the relationship between the executive office and the executive body of the organization.


His Excellency Ahmed bin Mohammed Al Mohammed
Chief Executive officer

During the year 2020, the organization witnessed a comprehensive development process, as the administrative restructuring was carried out in accordance with the recommendations approved by the Industrial Cooperation Committee and the Executive Office, expanding the organization’s tasks in line with developments in the industry globally and enabling the organization to play an influential role in accelerating the wheel of industrial development and enhancing the permeability of industrial exports to global markets And carrying out prospective studies to assist the GCC countries in the transition to the knowledge industry. We look forward to the organization having a strategic and pivotal role in providing its distinguished advisory services in the field of information, studies and reports in a way that contributes to the development of the Gulf industry in the public and private sectors.

In light of keeping pace with developments on the international scene through the global crisis of the Covid 19 pandemic, the organization took the initiative in the year 2020 AD to develop a guiding guide for the procedures required to confront the effects of the Covid 19 pandemic in the Gulf industrial sector. And assessing the measures and policies taken by the GCC countries to confront the health and economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on the Gulf industrial sector.

The Gulf Industrial Information Platform was also established to identify the gaps between production capacities and demand in times of crisis, especially in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Since we are at the beginning of the year 2021 AD, the organization is striving to implement an effective and ambitious plan for the member states’ projects for the year 2021 AD. This plan meets the needs in many areas such as developing a range of industrial investment opportunities and implementing studies for industrial sectors such as the plastics industry, food industries, knowledge and pharmaceutical industries, as well as the study of the circular economy in The industrial sector and government industrial accelerators, diversifying the structure of industrial exports, facilitating their access to global markets, and setting a plan to determine the needs of the industrial sector in terms of local manpower.

There are also studies that the organization will implement in cooperation with the General Secretariat of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf, where the organization will implement a project to update the document of the unified industrial development strategy for the countries of the Gulf and a draft law (system) for the unified industrial organization of the countries of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf. And cooperation in all fields that serve economic development among the member states, taking into consideration the directives of their Majesties and Highnesses, the leaders of the countries of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf, as a guiding light for promoting joint economic action, leading to the economic integration of the GCC countries.

God is the guardian of success and success






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