This report represents an initial step in our commitment to demonstrate the benefits of good governance, accountability and transparency in not-for-profit organisations, as well as in business. Moving forward, we intend to progress this in future Annual Reports through developing a rigorous system for measuring and reporting on the impact of Pearl Initiative programmes.

During 2014, we held 23 roundtable forums across the Gulf Region, in which over 2000 business, government and civil society leaders participated – on important issues including anti-corruption, integrated reporting, good governance in family firms, and women in business. We published 3 research-based regional insight reports, on the topics of governance in GCC family firms, integrity and towards integrated reporting. And we reached over 1,500 students at over 20 regional universities, through our student competitions and workshops