From April 11 to April 13, I attended Annual Investment Meeting (AIM) in Dubai, one of the most important world forums on the promotion of Foreign Direct Investments (FDI).
I had an honor to moderate a session on outsourcing within this conference, whose objective was to advise the governments on how to capture opportunities in this dynamic and global market of outsourcing. Here is a brief account on this session.
My panelists were renowned experts and global industry thought leaders:
- Christina Knutsson, Director at GDP Global
- Jon Becker, Legal Counsel at Clearly Legal Ltd
- Michael Ansah, Vice President of Dell
- Roland Jabbour, Chairman at Jabbour Holding Group
- Zhengping Yu, Executive Director of IBM China GTS GCG
Outsourcing was selected as one of the hot topics at AIM due to the fact that more and more money is being channeled into the alternative forms of investment, like mergers and acquisitions, licensing, subcontracting and outsourcing.
Foreign Direct Investments
Several thousands participants, ministers of more than 100 countries, government officials, industry experts and consulting companies convened to a large number of sessions and country presentations. Here are just few numbers to illustrate the current state of foreign direct investments in the world:
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