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HE al-Attiyah: Scholarly presentation.
HE the former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Energy and Industry, Abdullah bin Hamad al-Attiyah will speak at a one-day academic symposium here tomorrow on the likely impact of a long-term drop in the global crude price on exporters.
Al-Attiyah’s presentation titled “The Price of Oil: Opec Policies and Reactions” will take place at the Ritz-Carlton at 11am. He was a former president of Opec.
Organised by the Arab Centre for Research and Policy Studies (ACRPS), the meeting will allow policy makers, business leaders and researchers to discuss consequences of the decline in energy prices on the future of oil-exporting nations. The participants represent several countries such as Qatar, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Algeria.
Commenting on the significance of the meeting, Samir Seifan, ACRPS researcher and event organiser said, “The meeting will provide an opportunity to discuss the task ahead for oil exporting nations: they will have to balance shrinking state revenues from oil with the need to finance economic development and social protection infrastructures.”
The participants include Dr Ibrahim B Ibrahim , Economic Advisor to HH the Emir; Mamdouh Salameh, World Bank consultant; Hassan Aly, dean, School of Public Administration and Development Economics, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies; Mohamed al-Shatti, Kuwait Petroleum Corporation and Khaled al-Khater, administrative director (Research and Monetary Policy) Qatar Central Bank.
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