Dubai Chamber to organise Global Business Forum on Commonwealth of Independent States in February 2016

Continuing with its successful Global Business Forum (GBF) series focusing on exploring new investment opportunities in emerging markets of the world, the Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry is organising the first Commonwealth of Independent States Global Business Forum (CIS GBF 2016) entitled Commonwealth of Independent States: Ancient Routes – New Opportunities at Atlantis The Palm Hotel on 17 and 18 February 2016.

The two-day event will bring together a prominent delegate base of heads of states and governments, ministers and dignitaries, leading global CEOs, heads of private banks, sovereign wealth funds, private equity firms, multitude of global business leaders and the media.

Coming as part of the Global Business Forum series organised by the Chamber since 2012 including the three sessions of the Africa Global Business Forum whose latest session was held last month, this CIS GBF will allow investors to hold one-to-one meetings as well as to sign joint investment agreements and to enter into bilateral business partnerships with companies from different lucrative economic sectors.

Hamad Buamim, President and CEO, Dubai Chamber , stated that the Commonwealth of Independent States has been identified as a key market of great future potential and this forum in particular will explore the mutual business benefits that emerge from the region’s changing economic synergies. Dubai businesses, he added, will have ample scope to utilise their expertise and competitiveness in trade, tourism, logistics and financial services which are the leading drivers of the emirate’s economic growth.

“After the revival of the Silk Road initiative that links China to Central Asia and the GCC countries, we believe that big opportunities for the Gulf region lie in reviving a corridor linking Dubai via Turkey, Azerbaijan with Moscow and the newly founded Eurasian Economic Union. This group of markets, with around 350 million people, opens up a gate of opportunities for Dubai traders to benefit from unexplored business arenas,” Buamim said.