Abu Dhabi Economic Forum 2023 | Abu Dhabi Finance Week | 26 November 2023 |

This will be a private forum convening the highest level of guests at Abu Dhabi Finance Week, including keynotes and speeches by government ministers, heads of SWFs, institutional investors such as private equity, hedge funds, asset managers, family offices, banks, and business leaders.

2023 Speakers

H.E. Ahmed Jasim Al Zaabi
Chairman, ADGM & Abu Dhabi Dept. of Economic Development

H.H. Sheikha Shamma bint Sultan bint Khalifa Al Nahyan
President & CEO, UICCA

H.R.H. Prince Khaled bin Alwaleed bin Talal Al Saud
Founder & CEO, KBW Ventures

H.E. Abdulla Bin Touq Al Marri
Minister of Economy, Govt. of UAE

H.E. Mariam bint Mohammed Almheiri
Minister of Climate Change & Environment, Govt. of UAE

H.E. Khaldoon Al Mubarak
Managing Director & Group CEO, Mubadala

Ray Dalio
Founder, CIO Mentor, and Member of the Bridgewater Board, Bridgewater Associates, LP

Jenny Johnson
President and CEO, Franklin Templeton

Alan Howard
Founder, Brevan Howard

Hana Al Rostamani
CEO, First Abu Dhabi Bank

Ronald P. O'Hanley
Chairman & CEO, State Street

Peter Orszag
Incoming CEO, Lazard

Jenny Lee
Founding Partner, GGV Capital

Hamad AlHammadi
Chief Executive Officer, Energy & Utilities and Sustainable Manufacturing, ADQ

Mohamed Alabbar
Founder, Emaar

Vijay Shekhar Sharma
Chairman, Managing Director, CEO, Paytm

Mohammed Alardhi
Executive Chairman, Investcorp

Laura M Cha
Chairman, Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing

Ruchir Sharma
Chairman, Rockefeller International

Sajid Javid
Former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Govt. of U.K.

Sir Christopher Hohn
Founder, Managing Director & Portfolio Manager, TCI

Andre Esteves
Chairman, BTG Pactual

Dr. Samer Haj-Yehia
Chairman, Bank Leumi

Clare Woodman
CEO & Head of EMEA, Morgan Stanley International

Jean Paul Servais
Chairman, IOSCO

H.E. Hamid AlZaabi
Director General, Executive Office of Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorism Financing

H.E. Dr. Abdulrahman Al Hamidy
Director General & Chairman, Arab Monetary Fund

Yoni Assia
Co-founder & CEO, eToro

Hani Kablawi
Chairman, International, BNY Mellon

Jeremy Allaire
CEO & Founder, Circle

Atif A. Abdulmalik
CEO, Chairman of the Executive Committee, Arcapita

Thomas Ingenlath
CEO, Polestar

Bob Steers
Executive Chairman, Cohen & Steers

Dr. Jaap Kalkman
Group Chief Investment Officer, ADQ

Caroline Pham
Commissioner, CFTC

Garth Ritchie
Partner, Centricus

Henry Ward
Co-founder & CEO, Carta

Peter Hughes
Founder and CEO, Apex

Loh Chin Hua
CEO, Keppel Corporation

Murtaza Hussein
Chief Investment Officer, Alternatives & M&A, ADQ

Antoine Flamarion
Co-founder, Tikehau Capital

Ayman Hariri
Co-founder & CEO, Vero

Paul Desmarais
Chairman & CEO, Sagard

Hendrik du Toit
CEO, Ninety One

Adeeb Ahmed
Managing Director, Lulu Group

Naveen Sabharwal
Managing Director, European Corporates, Davidson Kempner

Fadi Ghandour
Executive Chairman, Wamda Capital

Tim Draper
Founder, Draper VC

Ming-Po Cai
Chairman & CEO, Cathay Capital

Nadine Chakar
CEO, Securrency

Volkan Kurtas
Founder & CIO, Vibrant Capital Partners

Alec Gores
Chairman, CEO & Founder, Gores Group

Christian Angermayer
Founder, Apeiron Investment Group

Mishal Kanoo
Chairman, Kanoo Group

Ibrahim Ajami
Head of Ventures, Mubadala

Drew Goldman
Global Head of Real Estate, ADIA

Doug Greenig
CEO & CIO, Florin Court Capital

Mubashir Mukadam
Managing Partner & CIO, Blantyre Capital

Konstantin Richter
CEO and Founder, Blockdaemon

Caspar Lee
Co-founder, Influencer.com & Creator Ventures

Ajay Bhalla
President, Cyber and Intelligence Solutions, Mastercard

Dr. Horst Simon
Director, ADIA Lab

Dr Karim El Solh
CEO, Gulf Capital

Jon Medved
CEO + Founder, OurCrowd

Samir Assaf
Senior Advisor & Chairman, MENA, General Atlantic

Shmuel Chafets
Executive Chairman & Founder, Target Global

Dmitry Tokarev
CEO, Copper

Charles Cascarilla
CEO & Co-founder, Paxos Trust Company

Bruno Lanvin
President, Smart City Observatory

Dan Murphy
Correspondant, CNBC International

Tal Ben-Simon
Chief Product Officer, eToro

Emmanuel Givanakis
CEO, ADGM FSRA

Ted Koenig
Chairman & CEO, Monroe Capital

Michel Lowy
Founder & CEO, SC Lowy

Benedict Evans
Independent Analyst

Prof. Alexander Lipton
Global Head of Quantitative R&D, ADIA

Samia Bouazza
Group CEO & Managing Director, Multiply Group

Arvind Ramamurthy
Chief of Market Development, ADGM

Rishi Kapoor
Co-CEO, Investcorp

Raja Al Mazrouei
CEO, Etihad Credit Insurance

Alan Murray
CEO, Fortune

Ilya Kondrashov
CEO, Quantum Light Capital

Courtney Powell
COO, 500 Global

Daniel Chapman
Founder and CEO, Argentem Creek Partners

Jayesh Patel
CEO, WIO

Amira Sajwani
Managing Director, Sales & Development, Damac

Natella Safar
Executive Director, Registration and Licensing, ADGM

Adam Ladjadj
Founder and Chairman, EFOA

Jay Clayton
Fmr. Chairman, SEC

Patrick Tsang
Chairman, Tsangs Group

Vikas Papriwal
Senior Managing Director, Leader of FTI Consulting Middle East and Africa, FTI Consulting

Dan McCrum
Author, Money Men

John Cusack
Chairman, Global Coalition to Fight Financial Crime

Faisal Al Hammadi
Managing Partner, Further Ventures

Bob Harward
Vice Admiral, US Navy (Ret.) SEAL, EVP – International Business & Strategy, Shield AI, Shield AI

Basil Al Askari
Co-founder & CEO, Midchains

Arjun Sethi
Co-founder, Tribe Capital

AJ Nelson
President and co-Founder, Rain

Miriam Kiwan
Vice President, MENA, Circle

Sachin Dev Duggal
Founder & Chief Wizard, Builder.AI

Tim Land
Executive Director, Monitoring & Enforcement, ADGM

Konstantin Limitovskiy
Vice President, Asian Infrastructure investment Bank

Mina Al-Oraibi
Editor in Chief, The National

Sriram Jaganmohan
Chief Investment Officer, Miras

Rohit Arora
CEO + Co-founder, Biz2Credit

Usman Ahmad
CEO and co-founder, Zodia Markets

Jeff Desjardins
Founder & Editor in Chief, Visual Capitalist

Noor Sweid
Founder and Managing Partner, Global Ventures

Brad Levy
CEO, Symphony

Saeed Al Awar
Partner, Rothschild & Co

William Pazos
Co-founder, ACX

Huda Al Lawati
Founder & CEO, Aliph Capital

Ron Daniel
Co-founder and CEO, Liquidity Group

Adam Felesky
Co-founder and CEO, Portage

Dr. Zongyuan Zoe Liu
Maurice Greenberg Fellow for China Studies, Council for Foreign Relations

Mike Belshe
Co-founder & CEO, BitGo

David Lewis
Managing Director, Global Head of AML Advisory, Kroll

Matthew Chen
CEO, OneConnect

David Rutter
Founder & CEO, R3

Jamal Saleh
Director General, UAE Banks Federation

Jehanzeb Awan
Founder & CEO, J.awan & Partners

Hussein Al Sayed
Anchor, CNBC Arabia

Rachel Pether
Anchor, Fintech.TV

Frank Dai
President, Huawei Cloud Middle East & Central Asia

Abdallah Abu-Sheikh
Founder, Astratech

Anita Mo
CEO, Hang Seng Indexes Company

Yasmin Almostehy
Executive Director, EFOA

Alexandra Mousavizadeh
Co-founder and CEO, Evident Insights

Asli Orbay-Graves
Deputy Editor, REDD Intelligence

Arun Mehta
Head of Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence, FAB

Sonia Gokhale
Managing Partner, VentureSouq

Martina Fuchs
Business Journalist, Martina Fuchs

Jack Inglis
CEO, AIMA

Merouane Debbah
Professor, Khalifa University

Stephen Squinto
Chief Investment Officer, J.P. Morgan Life Sciences

Greg Shell
Partner, Impact Fund, Goldman Sachs

Matthew Amlot
Managing Editor, Arabian Business

Ronit Ghose
Head, Global Banks Research, Citi

Karen Young
Senior Research Scholar, Global Energy Policy, Columbia University

Dan Doney
Co-founder & CTO, Securrency

Bassel Al-Khawaja
Advsory Head, Abu Dhabi IPO Fund

Bob Diamond
Founding Partner and CEO, Atlas Capital

Barney Reynolds
Partner & Global Head of Financial Services Industry Group, Shearman & Sterling

Antoine Colson
CEO, IPEM

Jennifer Prosek
Managing Partner, Prosek

Vince Molinari
CEO, FintechTV

Dickon Johnstone
Founder & CEO, Themis

Dr. Leen Kawas
Managing General Partner, Propel Bio

Gabrielle Inzirillo
Ecosystem Development Manager, ADGM

Rensche Olivier
Head of Governance, Risk & Compliance, Vistra

Bilal Jafar
Hedge Fund Correspondant, Dow Jones

Dr. Hasanat Dewan
Managing Director and CEO, Integrated Data Intelligence

Marcos Muller-Habig
Acting CEO, 42 Abu Dhabi

Abi-gail Marshman
Senior Managing Director, Head Financial Crime Consulting MENA, FTI Consulting

Matthew Wilde
Senior Managing Director, Teneo

Maria Gonzalez
SVP, Prosek

Diego Lopez
Managing Director, Global SWF

Kimmo Soramäki
Founder & CEO, FNA

Bas Kooijman
CEO, DHF Capital

Dan Tapiero
Founder CEO, 1Roundtable Partners

Rohan Doctor
Founder & CEO, Louisa.ai

Berkay Oncel
Head of MENAT Investments, SC Lowy

Rauda Al Dhaheri
Research and Development, ADGM Academy

J.K. Khalil
General Manager MENA East, Mastercard

Zafer Younis
Founder & CEO, SVVI

Salim Essaid
Journalist, AI Monitor