Top experts to join Euromoney forum

More than 500 financial experts, economists, investors, bankers and policy makers are expected to attend the fifth Euromoney GCC Financial Forum, it was announced yesterday.

The conference will be held on February 23 and 24, 2016 at the Four Seasons Hotel in Manama.

Euromoney Conferences is the world’s leading organiser of conferences for cross-border investment and capital markets. 

Highlights of this year’s forum include an interactive open town-hall style session with Rasheed Al Maraj, Governor of the Central Bank of Bahrain (CBB) and a keynote interview with Khalid Al Rumaihi, Chief Executive of the Economic Development Board (EDB).

The forum will include a keynote address by Gazi Ercel, former Governor of the Central Bank of Turkey (1996-2001) and Chief Executive of Ercel Global. 

The two-day forum will also feature high-profile panel discussions examining the global and regional macro outlook, implications of lower oil price for financial services industry in GCC, sovereign deficits, challenges, opportunities, strategic choices, market segmentation, regulation and more.

The panellists include financial experts such as Jahangir Aka, from Neuberger Berman, Wael Ziada, from EFG Hermes, Mohammed AlShammasi, Derayah Financial, Alissa Amico, Economic and Corporate Governance Centre, Osama Al Khajah, Ebtikar Association, Areije Al-Shaker, BDB, Tuba Terekli, Qotuf, Luay Ahmadi, Emirates NBD Private Banking, Alex Hayward, Vestra Wealth, Michael Mansour, Microsoft Gulf, Andrew Sims, NEC Payments and Ijlal Ahmed Alvi, International Islamic Financial Market. The sessions will be moderated by EDB’s Chief Economist Jarmo Kotilaine, Richard Banks, Victoria Behn and Giada Vercelli from Euromoney Conferences.

On the second day, the keynote address will be presented by Mahmood Al Kooheji, CEO of Mumtalakat, which will be followed by three panel sessions. 

Commenting on the announcement, Richard Banks, consultant editor at Euromoney Conferences said: “We are confident that the town hall session, in particular and the different panel discussions in general will be interesting, providing positive insights so that organisations can re-appraise their business strategies.” 

Cisit Euromoney Conferences website: www.euromoneyconferences.com/gcc to view the agenda.

Interested participants can join the debate and voice their opinions on the conference themes on Twitter, using the hashtag #emGCC