OBG & Global to launch Emerging Kuwait 2006 research

The launch event will take place at the Salwa Sabah Al-Ahmed Hall at the Marina Hotel, Salmiya, Kuwait. It will feature a keynote address by HE Abdulla Al-Taweel, Minister of Commerce & Industry, and speeches from OBG Chairman Michael Benson-Colpi, Global Managing Director and Vice Chairman Maha K. AlGhunaim, Ahmed Barakat of Al Sarraf & Al Ruwayeh Law Bureau, Bader Al-Wazzan and Thomas George of PricewaterhouseCoopers.

This event will bring together some 200 key government officials, members of the local and international business community, foreign investors, and members of the diplomatic community in Kuwait.

Written with the foreign investor in mind, Emerging Kuwait 2006 is the result of six months research on all aspects of Kuwait's economy and society. The aim of the publication is to provide in-depth analysis of Kuwait's socio-economic situation and provide investors and businessmen with a critical overview of the developments of the country's economy and the potential for foreign investment and business.

Global has been instrumental in providing its vast research resources, market expertise and local insight to our researchers. The collaboration with such a knowledge based investment firm provided a solid benchmark to the financial and economic data pertaining Kuwaiti's investment environment.

What makes Emerging Kuwait 2006 so unique is that, in addition to the analysis produced by Oxford Business Group and Global, it features published interviews and viewpoints with leading local and international political and economic experts. This edition will include viewpoint articles and interviews with; HE the Prime Minister of Kuwait, HE the Minister of Energy, HE the Minster of Planning & Administrative Affairs, HE the Governor of the Central Bank.

It will also feature Dr. Duke Anthony of the US-Arab Relations Council, HE Abdulla Bishara, Mr. Hanni Hussein of KPC, Mr. Philippe Arroyo of BNP-Paribas, Claude Mendile of the International Energy Agnecy, and Dr. Safaq Abdullah Al-Rekaibi KSE Director.