The Arab Planning Institute (API) held the Annual Meeting of its Advisory Board on 15/4/2012 at API's premises in Kuwait. The Meeting was chaired by API’s Director General - Dr. Bader O. Malallah. The Board discussed the institute’s 2012/2013 Work Plan. Members attending the meeting included Dr. Ali Abdel Ghadir Ali -API's Deputy Director General; Dr. Ibrahim Elbadawi – Director of Macroeconomic and Forecasting Economic Policy & Research Center at Dubai Economic Council; Dr. Sulaiman Al-Jassim, President of Zayed University, UAE; Dr. Nader Al-Kabbani - Director of Research and Policy at Silatech, Qatar; and API's Scientific Committees Coordinators: Dr. Ahmed Al-Kawaz, Dr. Belcacem Labbas, and Dr. Riadh Ben Jelili.