📅 22 January 2026
Online course
As the emerging ‘Capital of Capital’, how can the GCC and its players secure sustainable and resilient value growth from investments across Asia, the Middle East, and Africa, in the next decade and beyond?
The symposium will bring together business leaders, investors, and policy makers to discuss and explore the theme of Resilient Value Growth in Asia, the Middle East and Africa, a combined meta-region that will account for two-thirds of global economic growth between now and 2050.
The symposium will focus in particular on how the GCC, as the emerging Capital of Capital, and key GCC players, can develop growth strategies across the regions through investment and M&A that maximize shareholder returns in a way which is genuinely sustainable.
AWR Lloyd’s hypothesis is that shareholder value can only be maximized sustainably if a company’s strategy is:
- Connected to core competitive advantages and purpose
- Focused on industries and geographies which are not just ‘growing’, but can generate long-term risk-adjusted probability-based returns well above the cost of capital, with revenue-stream optionality
- Alert, agile and realistic about evolving technologies and mega-trends, starting with AI and energy transition
- Resilient and ‘antifragile’ to crises and shocks
- Pursued symbiotically with stakeholder value growth
AWR Lloyd is a specialist Strategic Consultancy and M&A advisory firm with a 25-year track record across Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, and Africa. Our service approach is bespoke, discreet, and innovative. We emphasize strategic intelligence, industry expertise, and results-focused action.
AWR Lloyd Gulf Partners has recently been established in Abu Dhabi to cover the Middle East and Africa region, headed by CEO, Mehdi Sethom. This new company is a joint venture with Siraj Holding, a leading private investment firm founded by Ahmed Khalaf Ahmed Khalaf Al Otaiba. Mr Al Otaiba will act as AWR Lloyd Gulf Partners’ Chairman.
