Global Financial Market Forum (GFMF) 2018 | NBAD GFMF | 27 February 2018 | Emirates Palace, West Corniche Road - Abu Dhabi - United Arab Emirates

Building on the success of 2016, the 2018 edition is commited to bringing you another world class line up of speakers, panel discussion, focused break-out sessions and unparalleled networking opportunities.

GFMF has evolved to become what is now regarded as the premier annual financial markets conference in the MENA region, attracting over 1600 delegates and set in what can only be described as the ultimate venue in the region, the Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi.

2018 Speakers

H.E. Khaldoon Khalifa Al Mubarak
Managing Director and Group Chief Executive Officer, Mubadala Investment Company

H.E. Khaldoon Khalifa Al Mubarak
Managing Director and Group Chief Executive Officer, Mubadala Investment Company

H.E. Mubarak Rashed Al Mansoori
Governor of the Central Bank of United Arab Emirates

H.E. Ahmed Ali Al Sayegh
Chairman of Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM)

H.E. Suhail Mohamed Faraj Al Mazrouei
UAE Minister of Energy and Industry & President of OPEC Conference

Mr. Abdulhamid Mohammed Saeed
Group Chief Executive Officer

Ahmed Alkholifey
Governor of the Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority (Central Bank of Saudi Arabia)

Mr. David Cameron
Prime Minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (2010-2016)

Lawrence H. Summers
Charles W. Eliot University Professor and President Emeritus at Harvard University

Dr. Mohammad Yousef Al-Hashel
Governor of the Central Bank of Kuwait

Mohamad Jameel Al Ramahi
Chief Executive Officer, Masdar

Mohamed Al Hammadi
Chief Executive Officer of the Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC)

Mr. Jean Paul Villian
Director – Strategy and Planning Department at Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA)

Dr. Qi Bin
Executive Vice President, China Investment Corporation

Mrs. Arundhati Bhattacharya
Former Chairman, State Bank of India

Dr. Keyu Jin
Professor of economics at the London school of Economics

B V Krishnan
Member, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) & CEO, KKR India Financial Services Pvt. Ltd.

B V Krishnan
Member, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) & CEO, KKR India Financial Services Pvt. Ltd.

Mr. Joseph Ho
General Manager of ICBC Overseas Business Division

Ferran Soriano
Chief Executive Officer, City Football Group and Manchester City Football Club

Paddy Padmanathan
President & CEO, ACWA Power

Dr. Sriram Vasudevan
Managing Director, Graticule Asset Management Asia (GAMA)

Ben Simpfendorfer
Founder & CEO, Silk Road Associates

Vikram Mansharamani
Global Trend-Watcher, Harvard University Lecturer, & Investor

Mark Blyth
Eastman professor of Political Economy at the Watson Institute for International Studies and Brown University

Axel Threlfall
Editor-at-Large, Reuters

Una Galani
Associate Editor of Reuters Breakingviews

Ziad Daoud
Chief Middle East Economist for Bloomberg Economics

Erik Schatzker
Bloomberg TV

Lubna Bouza
Acting Chief Editor of Business News and Presenter at Sky News Arabia TV

Omeir Jilani
Executive Director, Global Markets, FAB

Chavan Bhogaita
Managing Director & Head of Market Insights and Strategy, FAB

2018 Sponsors

• BNP Paribas
• HSBC
• Natixis
• Haagen Dazs
• ICBC
• LBEBW
• Oxford Business Group

2018 Partners
• Mubadala
• ADNOC
• Abu Dhabi Global Market
• Aldar
• Etihad Airways
• Bloomberg
• Abu Dhabi Aviation
• Thomson Reuters
• SkyNews