DUBAI // Politicians, analysts and experts from around the world will meet in the emirate to forecast future trends in the Arab region and discuss challenges facing the world for the eighth edition of the Arab Strategy Forum beginning December 15.
“The rapid changes the world is witnessing require thoughtful insights to study their impact if we are to collectively resolve the various emerging regional and international challenges,” said Mohammed bin Abdullah Al Gargawi, Minister for Cabinet Affairs and Chairman of the Executive Office of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, and chairman of the higher organising committee of the Arab Strategy Forum. “We in the United Arab Emirates are working continuously to monitor all variables and update our plans and projects in accordance with the latest developments.”
Turki Al Faisal, Chairman of the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies, former director general of the General Intelligence Directorate (GID) of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Ghassan Salameh, political thinker and author, will headline a session on the political state of the Arab world in 2016.
Salam Fayyad, former Palestinian Prime Minister; Mahmoud Mohieldin, corporate secretary and president’s special envoy for the World Bank; William Hague, former UK foreign secretary; Larry Summers, former US secretary of treasury and former president of Harvard University; and Prof Nouriel Roubini from New York University are also scheduled to speak at the forum.
Since it launched in 2001, the forum has become an international networking event with a number of workshops and sessions that help participants formulate future plans on regional and global levels with the aim of achieving a more stable and prosperous world.
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