Conference Profile and Objectives

The GCC region’s success story has been praised by many countries, organisations, global leaders and influencers around the world. Despite being located in a challenging region, the GCC region has managed to maintain a peaceful society and make an excellence progress in the last half century across the government and business sectors and key indicators – in particular, infrastructure, economic diversification, health and safety, education, women’s empowerment, financial, and leadership development.

Approximately 100 years ago, when the area was sustained by fishing and pearl diving for years, GCC then started looking for an alternative source of income and becoming the leading re-export ports, airports and many other diversified industries.

During the 19th and early 20th century’s, the pearling industry thrived in the relative calm at sea, providing both income and employment to the people of the GCC. It began to become a good economic resource for the local people. The decline of pearling in 1920s and 1930s resulted in a very difficult era, with little opportunity to build any infrastructure Read More