Investment chief urges global investors to increase commitment to Gulf region

4 articles · Updated · Fortune · Apr 22

A $75 billion investment chief, drawing on personal and professional ties to the Middle East, highlights the GCC's structural economic strength and recent $1.4 trillion UAE investment commitment to the US.
He emphasizes that Abu Dhabi, Dubai, and Riyadh are evolving into global financial and innovation hubs, with the region undergoing a generational shift in capital governance and building frameworks for long-term investment resilience.
Despite escalating tensions involving Iran, the chief warns against viewing the Gulf solely through the lens of conflict, arguing that the region's deliberate economic transformation and ambition warrant increased, not reduced, global investment.

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