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GIC Central Banking Series
The Middle East:
Emerging Challenges and Opportunities in the Economic Landscape
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Event Details
Sunday, March 24
7 – 9 p.m. GIC Welcome Dinner Awtar in Dubai
Tuesday, March 26
Events will be held at the Eastern Mangroves Hotel & Spa by Anantara in Abu Dhabi; transportation will be provided. Attire: Business
8:30 – 9 a.m. Registration and Coffee
9 – 9:10 a.m. Welcoming Remarks
- Michael Drury, Chief Economist of McVean Trading & Investments and GIC Program Chair
- Bulent Gultekin, Associate Professor of Finance at the Wharton School
9:10 – 9:45 a.m. Keynote Presentation: “An Economic & Monetary Policy Outlook: Where does the United States go from here?”
- Richard Fisher, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
- Moderator: Michael Drury, Chief Economist of McVean Trading & Investments and GIC Program Chair
9:45 – 10:45 a.m. Keynote Response 1
- David Kotok, CIO at Cumberland Advisors and GIC Vice Chair
- John E. Silvia, Managing Director and Chief Economist at Wells Fargo Securities LLC
10:45 – 10:55 a.m. Coffee Break
10:55 – 11:55 a.m. Keynote Response 2
- Don Rissmiller, Chief Economist, Strategas Research Partners
- George Tsetsekos, Dean Emeritus of the LeBow College of Business at Drexel University
11:55 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Keynote Address: His Excellency Sheikh Nahayan Mabarak Al Nahayan, Minister of Culture, Youth and Community Development and Chancellor, Higher Colleges of Technology
12:30 – 2 p.m. Lunch
2 – 3:10 p.m. Middle East: Emerging Challenges and Opportunities
- Samer Khalidi, Executive Director of NBK Capital
- Hassan Fattah, Editor-in-Chief of The National
- Simon Williams, Chief Economist of HSBC, Middle East
- Gary Dugan, Coutts Chief Investment Officer, Asia & Middle East
- Moderator: Rajeev Dhawan, Director of the Economic Forecasting Center at the J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University
3:10 – 4:10 p.m. Global Financial Markets: Looking Forward & Industry Sector Overview
- Bulent Gultekin, Associate Professor of Finance at the Wharton School
- Carl Schramm, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Kauffman Foundation
- Niranjan Hiranandani, Co-Founder of the Hiranandani Group and Founder of Hirco
- Taha M. Khalifa, Regional General Manager, Middle East and North Africa Intel Corporation
- Moderator: Michael Drury, Chief Economist of McVean Trading & Investments and GIC Program Chair
4:10 – 4:15 p.m. Closing Remarks
6 – 8:30 p.m. Festival of Thinkers Opening Ceremony Dubai
Attire: Gentlemen: Business. Ladies: Cocktail Dress or Pant Suit. Women should cover their shoulders out of respect for the local culture.
March 27
All Day The Festival of Thinkers Location TBA
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GIC is delighted to partner with the Wharton Center at CERT and the Higher Colleges of Technology – United Arab Emirates for this event.
GIC would like to acknowledge Wells Fargo for generously sponsoring this event.
Event Location
Date: Sunday, March 24, 2013 - Tuesday, March 26, 2013
City: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Additional Location
City: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Speaker Bios
Richard W. Fisher
Richard W. Fisher assumed the office of president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas on April 4, 2005. In this role, Fisher serves as a member of the Federal Open Market Committee, the Federal Reserve’s principal monetary policymaking group.
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John E. Silvia
John Silvia is a managing director and the chief economist for Wells Fargo. Based in Charlotte, N.C., he has held his position since he joined Wachovia in 2002 as the company’s chief economist.
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Donald Rissmiller
Donald Rissmiller is a founding Partner of Strategas and has been the Firm’s Chief Economist since 2006, directing its macroeconomic research effort.
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George Tsetsekos, Ph.D.
Dr. George Tsetsekos is Dean Emeritus and the Francis Professor of Finance at Drexel University’s LeBow College of Business.
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David Kotok
David R. Kotok co-founded Cumberland Advisors in 1973 and has been its chief investment officer since inception.
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Rajeev Dhawan
Rajeev Dhawan wears a dual hat as a professor and as director of the Economic Forecasting Center at the Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia. As director of one of the country’s premier forecasting centers, Dhawan develops forecasts for the U.S., Southeast regional, and local metro Atlanta economies. These forecasts are regularly published and presented to business executives and the media at the center’s popular, well-respected quarterly forecasting conferences. Dhawan has received several awards for his forecasting accuracy, including most accurate GDP forecast by Bloomberg News in 2005. The Bank One Economic Outlook Center at Arizona State University in 2003 named him the most accurate forecaster for US employment.
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Simon Williams
Simon Williams is HSBC’s chief economist for the Middle East and North Africa. Based in Dubai, Simon joined HSBC in 2006 and has more 15 year’s experience as a Middle East analyst. Simon leads HSBC’s macro view of the Middle East and North Africa for equity, fixed income and FX clients across the globe. He has degrees in economics from the LSE and in international relations from the University of London.
Gary Dugan
Based in Singapore, Gary is the Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer (CIO) of Asia and Middle East at Coutts.
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Carl J. Schramm
President and chief executive officer of the Kauffman Foundation since 2002, Carl Schramm is one of the world’s most recognized thought leaders on fostering and advancing entrepreneurship. The Economist has hailed Schramm as the “evangelist of entrepreneurship,” and USA Today noted, “On every front, the Kauffman Foundation has worked intelligently to promote and sustain entrepreneurs – in the fields of entrepreneurship education, research, policy, economic development, and access to capital.” Schramm is the author of The Entrepreneurial Imperative (HarperCollins, 2006). He is also coauthor of Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, with Robert Litan and William Baumol (Yale University Press, 2007), which is now available in nine languages and was named in 2008 one of the “Top Ten Books That Drive Debate” by the National Chamber Foundation, an affiliate of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Both books are regarded as emerging classics, providing new insight into the American and international economies.
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Hassan Fattah
Hassan M. Fattah is the editor of The National, the national daily newspaper published in Abu Dhabi. He oversees daily coverage, editorial strategy and strategic planning for the paper.
Read MoreTaha M. Khalifa
Engineer Taha Khalifa is the Regional General Manager for Intel in the Middle East and North Africa region (MENA). Taha is managing six offices across the region from Morocco, Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
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