Board of Changemakers: H.E. Al-Rumayyan, Cha, Fink, Schmidt, Schwarzman & others at

The panel "FIRST BOARD OF CHANGEMAKERS: GEOECONOMICS" took place at the King Abdulaziz International Conference Center in Riyadh on October 29, 2024, during the 8th Edition of the Future Investment Initiative. #fII8

The rise of the Global South, technological disruption, and intensifying humanity-wide crises have reshaped the world’s geopolitical balance. Despite this, the IMF predicts steady global growth at 3.3 percent in 2025. Can visionary leaders create new economic systems that embrace innovation and rekindle collaboration towards global progress?

SPEAKERS:
H.E. Yasir Al-Rumayyan, Governor, PIF, Chairman, Saudi Aramco & Chairman, FII Institute
Stéphane Bancel, CEO, Moderna
Laura Cha, Senior Advisor to the Board, Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing Limited
Laurence Fink, CEO, BlackRock
Kenneth C. Griffin, Founder & CEO, Citadel
Paul Hudson, CEO, SanofiRuth Porat, President & CIO, Alphabet & Google
Noel Quinn, Former Group CEO, HSBC
Eduardo Saverin, Co-Founder & Co-CEO, B Capital, Co-Founder, Facebook
Eric Schmidt, Co-founder with his wife, Wendy, Schmidt Sciences; Former CEO & Chairman, Google, KBE.
Stephen A. Schwarzman, Co-Founder, Chairman & CEO, The Blackstone Group

MODERATOR:
David M. Rubenstein, Co-Founder & Co-Chairman, The Carlyle Group