Questions about how sovereign wealth funds work practically and what happens when they are not handled in a transparent way loom large especially when it comes to the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA).
As reported in Bloomberg news and other venues, Qatar’s government is looking to get involved in the U.S. in a big way. The country’s sovereign wealth fund, the Qatar Investment…
A nonprofit human rights advocacy group called Freedom House publishes annual ‘Freedom in the World’ reports, rating countries around the world for their track records on items such as press…
U.S. newspapers have reported that the Qatar Foundation, a nonprofit founded in 1995 by Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, has paid $400 million in 2014 to host six U.S.…
Real estate company Colliers International is opening an office in Cairo to reach new investors in the Middle East-North Africa region. “We are establishing an on-the-ground presence in Cairo to…
The Qatar Investment Authority’s (QIA) plan to channel an estimated $35 billion into U.S. investments, along with opening an office in New York City, is raising questions about how this move might influence…
Among the sovereign wealth funds that allow nations to make foreign investments in their national interests, the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA), representing the oil-rich Gulf state, is one of the…
The Digital Rock Physics (DRP) Project, undertaken as part of a partnership between the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology in the United Arab Emirates, the Abu Dhabi National Oil…
GE Oil & Gas chose the end of March to break ground on a new multimodal manufacturing and service facility at the MODON site in Dammam, Saudi Arabia.
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