Taroudant- The University of Pennsylvania has just released the 2013 Global Go to Think Thank Index & Abridged Report on January 22, 2014, placing the Moroccan Amadeus Institute 13th in the MENA region.
Conducted by the Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program (TTCSP), a non-profit program at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, the report ranked the Moroccan Institute 13th among 50 countries listed on the rankings.
The Moroccan think tank institute came ahead of all Maghreb countries institutes included in the ranking. Centre des Etudes et Recherches en Sciences Sociales (CERSS) (Morocco), Tunisian Institute for Strategic Studies (ITES) (Tunisia), and Sadeq Institute, (Libya) ranked 18th, 23th and 47th respectively.
Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies (Egypt), Brookings Doha Center (Qatar) and the Center for Economics and Policy Studies (EDAM) (Turkey) occupied the top of the list respectively.
According to the best Think Tank Conference, the Forum MEDays, main event of the Amadeus Institute in 2013, ranked 49th forum in the world and first in the Arab world.
Based on data collected as of August, 2013, the number of think tanks in the world reached 6826 with only 511 institutes in the MENA region and the biggest number (1984) located in North America with 29.07% of all the institutes worldwide.
Cofounded in 2008 by Brahim Fassi Fihri (President) Mekki Lahlou and Younes Slaoui Vice Presidents, The Amadeus Institute is an independent Moroccan think tank based in Rabat.
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