42nd ICA Conference Dubai 2017 | ICA Conference | 22 November 2017 | Sofitel Hotels and Resorts The Palm, East Crescent Rd, Palm Jumeirah, Dubai, UAE

Our members are engaged in financial trading and sales representing foreign exchange, interest rate products, equities, commodities and others. Membership is open to Arab and non-Arab professionals working in regional and international banks and financial institutions.Treasury managers, managing directors, investment bankers, risk management and asset wealth management directors, financial markets traders representing international banks and institutions from around the world attend the ICA annual conference, our flagship event in the region, benefiting of the exchange of professional expertise and network development. Around 60% of the conference delegates are Arabs while some 40% are Europeans, Asians and Americans.

Our speaker faculty is composed of international political leaders, central bank governors, CEOs, chief economists and senior bankers, selected on a global basis for their experience and insights. Notable past speakers we have hosted included President Bill Clinton, President Nicolas Sarkozy, Mr. Tony Blair, Mr William Hague, Secretary James Baker, Dominique Strauss-Khan, Dr. Alan Greespan, Dr. Marc Mobius, Lord Norman Lamont, Carlos Ghosn, Dr. Jacques Attali, Pr. Nassim Taleb among many others.

2017 Speakers:

Baran Abdulla
Founder of two successful distribution businesses in cosmetics and flowers"

Carla Slim
MENA Economist, Standard Chartered Bank

Dr. Celeste Cecilia Moles Lo Turco
Vice President Strategy Future Holding, SWFs Expert

Chavan Bhogaita
FAB Head of Market Insights & Strategy

Chelsea Rustrum
Author

Christopher Dembik
Head of macro analysis , SAXO Bank A/S

Claudia Maedler
Bureau Chief U.A.E., Qatar, Kuwait & Oman, Bloomberg News

Colin Ellis
Managing Director-Chief Credit Officer EMEA, Moody’s Investors Service

David Passiak
Futurist, innovator, and author of three books - Empower, Disruption Revolution, and Red Bull to Buddha.

Hormoz Faryar
Head of Institutional Business at Divisa Capital

Huw Pill
Global Investment Research, Goldman Sachs

Fawaz Abusneineh, CFA
Managing Director, Head of Debt Capital Markets & Issuer Services at FAB

JENNIFER HANSEN
Executive Vice President, Head of Global Sales Strategy and Execution

João Pedro Goncalves
Financial Economist, LSE I UNDP

Maryam Amiri
Master of Ceremony and Moderator

Michael Creed
Senior Manager at the Dubai Financial Services Authority

Mohammed Al hashemi
Associate director of money market |Emirates NBD

Rachel Pether
CFA Charter holder

Richard Duncan
Richard Duncan is the author of three books on the global economic crisis.

Sara Green Brodersen
Entrepreneur, Thought Leader & Speaker

Sir Peter Westmacott
British Ambassador to the United States from 2012-16.

Souad M. Al Hosani
President of Nexus Group of Companies

Timothy Fox
Chief Economist of Emirates NBD

Vikas Jain
Head of Financial Institutions, GGO MENA

Ziad Daoud
Chief Economist for the Middle East, Bloomberg Economics.

2017 Sponsors:

STRATEGIC PARTNER
• Emirates NBD

GOLD SPONSORS:
• First Abu Dhabi Bank
• ICAP
• Murex

SILVER SPONSORS:
• ADIB
• Tullet Prebon
• BGC

BRONZE SPONSORS:
• Saxo Markets