The GCC is facing challenges in finding the best response to the recent global economic slowdown, to stabilize the markets, position the economy to be competitive when the international recovery comes, and finally to achieve long-term, sustainable growth.  Financial institutions need to be more creative and flexible than ever to find new sources of capital and support their clients’ financial needs, policymakers and regulators need to implement the right measures in order to bring back confidence and stimulate recovery in a volatile environment and investors need to re-assess their risk/return appetite.

Financings are now starting to trickle into the market, and conditions have started to improve six months after the shock waves emanating from Lehman Brothers’ collapse in September last year.  Despite the decline in demand, substantial investment is needed to bring a greater percent of the Gulf’s huge hydrocarbon reserves into production in order to meet mid and longer term demand projections.  Also governments across the globe are seeing infrastructure investment as a good way to stimulate economies.  In the past year alone, the value of projects planned or under way in the GCC has doubled to more than USD$2 trillion, according to MEED Projects, which tracks project activity in the Gulf.

This 2^nd Annual MENA Infrastructure Finance Conference provides unparalleled networking opportunities and this event will be a conference for the leading deal-makers in infrastructure and energy finance. 

· Christophe Mariot, Regional Head of Structured Finance, BNP Paribas GCC

· Alan Buxton, Global Head of Power & Infrastructure, Standard Bank plc 

· Brad Kim, Division Director, ADCB Macquarie

·  Paul Noumba Um, Lead Economist, Economic Support Unit, Sustainable

  Development, MENA Region, World Bank

· Colin Campbell, Partner – Citi Infrastructure Investors, Citibank

· Greg Fewer, Associate Director, Project & Corporate Finance, Mubadala

· Rania Zayed, Advisor to the Minister and Director, PPP Central Unit, Ministry of Finance, Egypt

· Thomas Waterhouse, Joint General Manager, Head of Energy and Natural

  Resources, Structure Finance Department, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking
Corporation Europe Ltd

· Frank Beckers, Managing Director, Head of Project & Capital Advisory

  Middle East, Africa & South Asia, Deutsche Bank

· Rami Ghandour, Executive Director, Metito Utilities Ltd

· Simon Monk, Managing Director, Instrata Capital

· Sinan Dalli, Chief Financial Officer, Delta Petroleum

· Leonidas Korres, Special Secretariat PPP, Ministry of Economy and Finance

· Senior Representative, Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC)

· Khurram Abdullah, Head of Capital Market Services, Dar Al Sharia

  (A Dubai Islamic Bank subsidiary)

·    The effect of global financial crisis on infrastructure investing

·    Prospects from Africa: The emerging infrastructure development region

·    Future of Islamic infrastructure finance in MENA region

·    Exploring the most appropriate models for financing infrastructure projects in the present liquidity constraint and risk adverse market

·    Risk mitigation for different infrastructure assets

·    Future of PPP in MENA

·    Exploring infrastructure finance for Greenfield Projects

·    Investment opportunities for water and waste management projects

·    Investing in Public Utilities infrastructure in MENA

·    Analysing ports infrastructure financing

·    Financing opportunities for renewable energy

Directors, Division Heads, General Managers, Senior Managers, Managers and Specialists of the following departments: 

·    Ministers / Undersecretaries

·    Advisors to Ministers

·    CEOs, Managing Directors, General Managers

·    Chief Operating Officers

·    Chief Financial Officers / Finance Directors

·    Chief Economics

·    PPP & PFI Directors / Managers / Advisors

·    Heads of Project Finance

·    Financial Controllers / Directors / Analysts

·    Commercial Directors / Managers

·    Treasury Managers / Corporate Treasurers

·    Project Managers / Developers

·    Equity Analysts / Corporate Banking Managers

·    Lawyers / Auditors / Underwriters

·    Export Credit Agents

 

Target Sectors

 

·    Utilities (Power, Water, Oil & Gas, Renewable Energy)

·    Transport (Land, Sea and Air)

·    Healthcare

·    Real Estate

·    Education

·    Financial Institutions