RIYADH: The high-profile speakers and guests set to attend the Future Investment Initiative conference in Riyadh next week will include heads of state Ahmad Al-Sharaa, the president of Syria; Han Zheng, the vice president of China; Shehbaz Sharif, the prime minister of Pakistan; Paul Kagame, the president of Rwanda; and Edi Rama, the prime minister of Albania.
Their names and other details of the program the event’s ninth edition were announced on Monday by Richard Attias, chairperson of the FII Institute Executive Committee, who predicted this year’s conference would feature “many deals” across several key sectors.
“I definitely think energy, definitely big infrastructure, definitely big,” he said. “So all these sectors will be very highly represented.
“My instinct is that we will exceed 2024, I’m sure of it too,” he added, referring to last year’s event, during which deals worth more than $70 billion were signed.
The FII Institute will also launch a new ventures program aimed at accelerating the growth and success of impact-driven startups that aim to create positive social or environmental change as a core part of their business models, Attias said.
