VIP INTERVIEWS
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Ghassan Nuqul
Jordan
Vice Chairman, Nuqul Group
“We have a new generation of brilliant Jordanians who are creative and at the forefront of technology.”
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Catalina Restrepo Carvajal
Colombia
Executive Director, ACI Medellín
“We will host the World City Summit in 2019, and it will be the first time it is held in Latin America.”
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Juliana Tobón Peña
Colombia
President, MetLife
“In total, the insurance market has grown by 5%, but MetLife has grown by 10%.”
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Ernest Azudialu-Obiejesi
Nigeria
Executive Chairman, Obijackson Group
“The oil and gas business is like a two-way street, and once the oil price is stable and going up, then funds are automatically made available.”
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Athbi Alenezi
Kuwait
Co-Founder and Managing Partner,
“We launched in Kuwait because the logistics here are great. However, in addition to running the app, we also run our own logistics service on our platform with selected partners.”
MUST READS
DIPLOMACY & POLITICS
Focus: Border Wall Alternatives
Mexico-US Deadlock?
With the US at an impasse over President Trump's border wall, Obrador's Mexico is attempting a new approach to immigration.
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ECONOMY
Focus: The Linguistics of Trade
How We Do Business
From "paradigm shift" to "exit strategy," we take a look at the language of business and its pitfalls and clichés.
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TELECOMS & IT
Focus: Top 5 Failing Inventions
Dying Technologies in 2019
With some admired by many and others unloved from the outset, here are five technologies likely to die out by 2020.
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EDITOR'S PICKS
TOURISM
Focus: Tourism & the Greek Economy
Islands in the Sun
Greece tourism arrivals grew by over 10% in 2017.
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TOURISM
Focus: World Tourism Forum Boosts Ghana Hospitality
Black Star Rising
Ghana has so far struggled to reach the top of visitors’ bucket lists as a holiday destination, but hosting the World Tourism Forum in 2017 went some way to kickstarting its tourism industry.
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ENERGY
Focus: Protests Over Potential Tesla Partner
Lithium Battles
The battle for resources will be as fierce for the green economy as it has been for the hydrocarbon trade.
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ENERGY
Focus: Puerto Rico investment in renewables
A New Hope
Investors have been flocking to Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria.
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ECONOMY
Focus: Fighter jets for a cup of joe
Jakarta-Moscow Barter Arrangement
In a creative response to western sanctions, one on weapons and the other on certain agricultural products, Russia and Indonesia have struck a deal bartering fighter jets for coffee and palm oil.
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DIPLOMACY
Focus: Kenyans vote in tense elections
Cease and Devolve
As voters go to the polls in one of the most contested elections in Kenyan history, much more than half-century old personal rivalries is at stake.
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