The Global Policy Institute (GPI) is a research institute/policy think tank based in the City of London. The Institute was founded by the late Professor Stephen Haseler in 2006 to study the coming multipolar world order, the next phase of globalisation through regionalisation, and the European Union's role within this order. Since the global financial crisis of 2008/9, the Institute's focus has increasingly been on the geopolitics, the risks and changes in the global financial system as well as on the speeding up of Eurasian integration based on China's One Belt One Road (OBOR) development initiative.