Governance and Policy Think Tank (GPTT) was founded in 2015 as a university-affiliated think tank, in relation with Sharif University of Technology as the first ranked technical university domesticlly as well as the most prestigious Iranian university internationally. What differentiates GPTT from most other university-affiliated think tanks is its practical, apolitical and evidence-based approach towards policy and governance issues. The think tank conducts research on and provides policy proposals for a wide range of socio-political and policy domains including, but by no means limited to,Political Economy, Multi-Level Governance, Communications and Media Policy, Administration and Public Sector Reform, Regulatory Governance, Political and Parliamentary Studies, Digital Governance, as well as International Affairs. Given its rich interdisciplinary and internationally oriented body of experts, GPTT has managed to emerge, as an interface between academic research centers and policy circles. It has also played an important role in coordinating efforts between policymaking institutions inside Iran and various international. Furthermore, GPTT has signed MoUs with, or has been in mutual collaborations with a number of international academic and policy.
