CEOs Discuss Investment Flows, Technology Disruption, and Emerging Opportunities as Riyadh Consolidates Status as Global Financial Hub
Riyadh—The ninth edition of the Future Investment Initiative 2025, held October 27-30 in the Saudi capital, assembled an unparalleled array of global financial leadership to map the economic and investment trajectory for the coming years. Convened against a backdrop of rapid technological change, geopolitical recalibration, and Saudi Arabia’s deepening integration into global capital markets, the conference underscored a fundamental shift: the Gulf region, and particularly the Kingdom, is no longer a peripheral destination for international investment but a central player shaping global financial strategy.
The session hosted by David Rubenstein American financier, investor, author, and philanthropist who is best known as a co-founder and co-chairman of The Carlyle Group, a private equity firm. He is also the principal owner of the Baltimore Orioles baseball team drew chief executives and investment leaders from JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, BlackRock, Qualcomm, HSBC, Blackstone, KKR, African Rainbow Minerals, Intel, and Olayan Holdings, alongside Saudi ministers and the heads of the nation’s Public Investment Fund—a roster signaling the stakes involved in understanding emerging market dynamics, technological disruption, and the reallocation of global capital.
