According to Global Research's own website, they are headed by a man named Michel Chossudovsky, and sports associates like Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, an 'anti-Zionist' Iranian who supports unrestricted uranium enrichment by Iran, and F. William Engdahl, who is connected to perennial nutcase Lyndon LaRouche.
All three are favorite "independent journalists" of RT, PressTV and Russian media, and Global Research constantly uses them as reliable sources. All three are also on the scientific board of Geopolitica, under the editor Tiberio Graziani, whose Russian connections are confirmed due to his being a leader of a Russian expansionist movement headed by Alexander Dugin.
Tentative conclusion: Global Research is yet another quasi-independent propaganda agency of the Kremlin, whose leaders are rewarded through payments made under the excuse of being on Geopolitica's board, which essentially functions as a money laundering front for the FSB's propagandists.
Great research, you know a great deal.