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The MENA Design Research Centre is a non-profit organisation based in Beirut. The idea behind it is to be able to have a discourse or a platform to look into design in the Middle East and to understand the role that design research can play in terms of education, social impact, a creative economy and entrepreneurship.
The role of tourism has been, is and will continue to be very important. When I first arrived in Kurdistan two years ago, there were not nearly as many hotels and brands with their eyes focused on Kurdistan as there are today. The role of the tourism industry is continuously increasing here.
I strongly believe that there will be a culture change. Additionally, the new market authority will be developing this cultural change. Now, more people are involved in the financial market and they are seeing the advantages of going public
Joe Faddoul, Chairman of BML Istisharat
We have been doing this for the last 42 years. The client base includes Fortune 500 names like Citibank, Société Générale, Banque Populaire, Swiss Life, Gazprombank etc. The software is up and running in 33 countries spanning from the US, to Europe, Africa, the Middle East and recently South East Asia.
It is very safe to invest in Lebanon. From a security perspective, the problems are usually localised and we don’t know of many major investments that would be in the areas that are typically hotspots in Lebanon.
Mauricio Giusti gives an overview of the telecommunications sector in Brazil, focusing on the infrastructure segment. Mr Giusti also presents BR Towers, a company founded in 2012 by GP Investments and Bradesco Private Equity Fund, specialized in providing telecom tower sharing solutions in the country.
Lebanon is one of those places with plenty of capital. It is not the money that we bring in that will help these companies. Instead, they can gain from being associated with us, and by making the most of our expertise and our global connections.
Paddy Padmanathan, President and CEO of ACWA Power
The tariff difference between our tender and the next bidder across the board seems to be in the order of about an average of 20%. In practice it means: on one transaction buying 4,000 megawatts for 20 years on a 20-year fixed-price contract in this instance at 24% tariff difference between our tender and the next bidder. That is about $1.2 billion. In effect, that is $1.2 billion of saving to the national economy of Saudi Arabia.
Abdullah Alomran, CEO of Riyadh International Convention and Exhibition Centre (RICEC)
According to statistics from SCTA, which is the tourism authority here, the Riyadh International Convention and Exhibition Centre´s share of the total MICE visitors is 10%. Therefore 10% of the visitors coming to Saudi Arabia for MICE purposes have visited the Exhibition Centre here in Riyadh.
Hussain A. Al-Nafisi, CEO of Absal Steel
Our previous policy to become self-sufficient in wheat resulted in extremely high consumption of available water resources. Subsequently the Government has taken steps to phase out wheat cultivation by 2016.
