The National U.S.-Arab Chamber of Commerce in partnership with the Kogod School of Business at American University is going to organize the Second Sovereign Wealth Funds Conference 2015 in Washington, DC, US.

Since the first Sovereign Wealth Funds (“SWFs”) Conference at American University in October 2014, the world has experienced drastic changes. Oil prices plummeted precipitously while OPEC maintained its production volume. Concurrently, the world’s economic recovery still continues with the growth rate of developing countries exceeding that of developed countries. Instability in some of the world regions, from the Ukraine to Iraq, passing through Afghanistan to Syria, and lately to Yemen, has forced countries to dip into their SWFs to sustain their annual budgets. The sudden changes in SWFs are altering the investment strategies of these funds. The proposed second international conference will address these issues and assess how these global changes are impacting SWFs.
Scholars and practitioners from around the world will be meeting at American University for an insightful, one-day conference exploring how political turbulence is impacting SWFs.
Speakers:

• H.E. Mohammed Jaham Al Kuwari
  Ambassador of Qatar to the United States
• Dr. John Duke Anthony
  Founding President, National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations
• David Hamod
  President and CEO, National U.S.-Arab Chamber of Commerce
• Dr. Edwin (Ted) Truman
  Senior Fellow, The Peterson Institute for International Economics
• Peter Alois
  President, Alois Global Trade Strategies, LLC
• Geoffrey Davis
  Partner, Squire Patton Boggs
• Amb. Adam Ereli
  Vice Chairman, Mercury
• Dr. Celeste Cecilia Moles Lo Turco
  Expert, Italian Ministry of Finance
• Dr. Amin Mohseni-Cheraghiou
  Assistant Professor, American University Department of Economics
• Dr. Michael Papaioannou
  Deputy Division Chief, International Monetary Fund
• Dr. Ananthakrishnan Prasad
  Division Chief, International Monetary Fund
• Amb. Patrick Theros
  President, US-Quatar Business Council
• Dr. John Willoughby
  Professor, Department of Economics, American University
• Dr. Jeffrey Harris
  Professor, Kogod School of Business at American University
• Dr. Ghiyath Nakshbendi
  Executive in Residence, Kogod School of Business International Business Department, American University

Previous Attendees Include: Senior officials from sovereign wealth funds, private equity corporations, major international banks, major investment companies, think tanks, and higher education institutions.
Conference Proceedings will be shared with the guests few months after the conference.