Abu Dhabi Finance Week 2022 | Abu Dhabi Finance Week | 13 November 2022 | Abu Dhabi

This event is a week-long engagement addressing a spectrum of economic issues: financial technology & innovation, startups & enterprise, venture funding & investment, asset management & capital markets, economic policy & regulation.

2022 Speakers

H.H. Sheikha Shamma bint Sultan bin Khalifa AI Nahyan
Executive Director, UAE Independent Climate Change Accelerators

H.E. Mariam Bint Mohammed Saeed Hareb Almheiri
Minister of Climate Change and Environment, Government of UAE

H.E. Ahmed Jassim Al Zaabi
Chairman, ADGM

H.E. Mohamed Ali Al Shorafa
Chairman, Abu Dhabi Department of Economic Development

H.E. Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
Chairman, UAE Banks Federation

Jean Lemierre
Chairman, BNP Paribas

Dinesh Khara
Chairman, State Bank of India

Changpeng Zhao
Founder & CEO, Binance

Todd Leland
President, Goldman Sachs International

Dr. Samer Haj-Yehia
Chairman, Bank Leumi

Mark Carney
Co-Chair, Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero

Dr. Arnaud Leclercq
Partner Private Holding, Lombard Odier Group

Peng Xiao
CEO, G42

Saeed Hamad AlDhaheri
Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX)

Ali Hussein
CEO / Advisor, Eros Now / Eros Investments

Caroline Pham
Commissioner, Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Deepak Chopra
Chairman, Chopra Foundation

Nouriel Roubini
Chairman / Chief Economist, Roubini Macro Associates / Atlas Capital Team L.P.

Courtney Powell
COO & Managing Partner, 500 Global

Kevin O'Leary
Chairman, O'Leary Ventures

Hazem Ben-Gacem
Co-CEO, Investcorp

Christina Pitarch
General Manager, Google Cloud Security

Diana Amoa
CIO of Long Biased Strategies, Kirkoswald

Kimberly Smith
Chief Capital Formation Officer, Techstars

Caspar Lee
Co-founder, Creator Ventures

David Chaum
CEO & Co-founder, Elixxir

Hadley Gamble
Anchor, CNBC

Mike Novogratz
Founder & CEO, Galaxy

Arjun Sethi
Co-founder & CEO, Tribe Capital

Shmuel Chafets
Founder & Executive Chairman, Target Global

Akash Shah
Chief Growth Officer, BNY Mellon

Dr. Karim El Solh
Co-founder & CEO, Gulf Capital

Ittai Ben-Zeev
CEO, Tel Aviv Stock Exchange

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

Robert Mitchnick
Head of Digital Assets, BlackRock

Jon Medved
Founder & CEO, OurCrowd

UK Sinha
Former Chairman, SEBI

Henri Arslanian
Co-founder and Managing Partner, Nine Blocks Capital Management

Chuka Umunna
Head of ESG for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, J.P. Morgan

Xian Chan
Global Head of Digital Assets, HSBC

Keith Bloomfield
CEO, Forbes Family Trust

Tan Bin Ru
CEO - Southeast Asia, OneConnect Financial Technology

Steven Glickman
President, Aspiration Global

Simone Maini
CEO, Elliptic

Daniel Chapman
CEO/CIO & Founder, Argentem Creek Partners

Brett Tejpaul
Head of Institutional, Coinbase

Esteban Buljevich
Vice Chairman, Rothschild & Co

Kevin Reynolds
Managing Editor, Coindesk

Luke Jeffs
Managing Editor, Euromoney Global Investor

Jaime Leverton
CEO, Hut 8

Oi-Yee Choo
CEO, ADDX

Sonia Weymuller
Founding Partner, VentureSouq

Dan Doney
CEO & Co-Founder, Securrency

Frances McLeod
Founding Partner, Forensic Risk Alliance

Dr. Nasser Saidi
President, Nasser Saidi & Associates

Basil Al Askari
Co-founder & CEO, Midchains

Shargiil Bashir
Chief Sustainability Officer, First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB)

Michael Davis
CEO, NMC Healthcare

Karim Radwan
CIO, Chimera Capital

Stephen Nolan
Managing Director, United Nations Environment

Hakan Eroglu
Global Open Banking & Open Data Practice Lead, Mastercard

Nameer Khan
Chairman, MENA Fintech Association

Nili Gilbert
Vice Chairwoman, Carbon Direct | Chair, GFANZ Advisory Panel

Kalin Metodiev CFA
Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Nexo

William Pazos
Managing Director & Co-Founder, AirCarbon Exchange (ACX)

Feroz Sanaulla
Partner, Roland Berger

Hashim Kudsi
Co-founder and Managing Partner, Liwa Capital Advisors

Huda Al Lawati
CEO, Aliph Capital

Dr. Mona Hamdy
Chief Strategy Officer, Sino Global Capital

Danny Sebright
President, U.S.-U.A.E. Business Council

Vince Molinari
Founder & CEO, FINTECH.TV

Amit Jain
CEO & Co-founder, Zampfi

Rachel Pether
TV host, Digital Asset Report

Abdul Haseeb Basit
CFO, GBBC Digital Finance

Dan Keeler
Senior Editor, ImpactAlpha

Jehanzeb Awan
Founder and CEO/Chairman, J. Awan & Partners, Azakaw/MEAACBA

Marco Santori
Chief Legal Officer, Kraken

Sonia Gokhale
Founding Partner, VentureSouq

Herve Francois
Partner – Private Equity, Blockchain and Digital Assets, Investcorp

Dilip Massand Esq
CEO, Phoenix Advisors Ltd

Paul Homsy
Middle East Senior Advisor, Forbes Family Trust

Vishal Sacheendran
Director, MENA, Binance

John Patton
Portfolio Manager - EMEA & Asia, Argentem Creek Partners

Sasha Kaletsky
Co-founder, Creator Ventures

Raheel Ahmed
Chief Executive Officer, RAKBANK

David Rothon
CEO, AD Global Investors

Dan Murphy
Correspondant, CNBC

Simone Russo
CEO & Co-Founder, Amagis Capital Group

Girard Moussa
Head of UAE, Stripe

Mehdi El Amine Fichtali
Founder & CEO, FinaMaze

Simon Goodman
CEO, Peregrine Limited

Asad Ahmed
Managing Director, Alvarez & Marsal

Issam Abousleiman
Regional Director, GCC Countries, The World Bank

Matthew Wilde FCA
Senior Managing Director, Teneo

Emmanuel Givanakis
CEO, FSRA, ADGM

Linda Fitz-Alan
CEO, Courts, ADGM

Hamad Al Mazrouei
COO, ADGM

Simon Charlton
Chief Restructuring Officer, Ahmad Hamad Algosaibi

Vikas Papriwal
Senior Managing Director, Head of Middle East Corporate Finance & Restructuring, FTI Consulting

Naveen Bhojwani
Head of Debt Advisory & Restructuring, Rothschild & Co

Wai Lum Kwok
Senior Executive Director, Authorisation & Fintech, FSRA, ADGM

Gabrielle Inzirillo
Head of Ecosystem Development, FSRA, ADGM

Zille Rehman
Host, T.R.I.

Salim Essaid
Business Correspondent, Al-Monitor

Dmitry Tokarev
CEO, Copper.co

Dr. Bhaskar Dasgupta
Non Executive Board Director and Advisor, Apex Group Ltd

Anthony Taylor
Senior Executive Officer, Masdar Green REIT

Arvind Ramamurthy
Chief of Markets, ADGM

Ben Worley
Co-Founder & CEO, Spiro Carbon

Dave Rouse
CEO, CarbonClick

2022 Partners

STATEGIC AI PARTNER:
• G42

STATEGIC ECONOMIC PARTNER:
• Department of Economic Development

STATEGIC TECHNOLOGY PARTNER:
• etisalat and

FDI PARTNER:
• Abu Dhabi Investment Office

DESTINATION & CULTURAL PARTNER:
• Department of Culture and Tourism

OFFICAL PARTNERS:
• ADIB
• ADX
• FAB
• HSBC
• MUBADALA
• Standard chartered

THEME PARTNERS:
• Crypto Abu Dhabi
• Startup Campus
• R.A.C.E
• Youth for Finance

SUPPORT PARTNERS:
• Binance
• Edelman Smithfield
• Grant Thornton
• MidChains
• nexo
• OneConnect
• OKX
• Peregrine
• Securrency
• WIO

ECOSYSYRM PARTNERS:
• 256 Network
• 500
• Elevation
• Everdome
• OurCrowd
• Plug and Play Abu Dhabi
• STARTAD
• The Executive Centre
• The Wealth Report

ASSOCIATION PARTNERS:
• AMCHAM
• cba
• GBBC Digital Finance
• MEIMA
• Mena Fintech Association
• MEVCA
• UAE Banks Federation
• UEA-UK Business Council
• U.S - U.A.E. Business Council