GPR was founded in 2003 by Dr Gunnar Paulsson – a Swedish national with track records in management consulting and business economics research.

As a consultant, Gunnar has contributed to numerous market and business development projects, mainly for international companies in manufacturing industries.

Following a UNIDO-assignment in West Africa, Gunnar takes an interest in issues of industrial development in emerging and frontier economies. Related projects of applied research have focused on cross-border supply chains: their organisation, the ways in which operations in emerging economies contribute to competitiveness, and the factors driving the choice of production location.

Gunnar Paulsson holds an M.Sc. degree in Business Administration from the University of Linköping (Sweden), and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Economics from the University of Sussex (UK).