By Prof Bill Mickael
Who reads the biography of His Highness Sheikh Khalid bin Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, The Crown Prince of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi and the Executive Chairman of the Emirate Council realizes that His Highness spent the past of his youth completing the process of building, development, and development that his grandfather, the late Sheikh Zayed, whose entire life was in the service of Emirati and Arab people. His Highness Sheikh Khaled has headed the Abu Dhabi Executive Office since 2019
His Highness has also been Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Committee for Strategic Affairs and the Emirates Genome Council since 2021. He was appointed in 2016 as Deputy Advisor to the Supreme Council for National Security and Chairman of the State Security Apparatus. As we all know, he is a member of the Board of Directors of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company «ADNOC.»
What invites me to introduce the history of His Highness in the service of his country is the international press’s handling of the contact that the US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan made hours ago to His Highness in his capacity as Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, where he explained that contact, without leaving room for questions, the geopolitical and strategic dimension that the UAE represents in the region from this point of view America, especially concerning energy security and oil supplies.
Chancellor Sullivan appeared in his tweets about this contact, very optimistic about the expected successes of the US-UAE agenda scheduled for the year 2023, which is headed by the COP28 summit, which will attract more than 70,000 participants, including heads of state, government officials and representatives of the private sector, to discuss the issue of change. Climate and everyone knows the track record of the UAE in investing in clean energy solutions.
During the coming hours, His Highness Sheikh Khalid will sponsor one of the largest investment forums in the world, with the support of the Ministry of Industry and Advanced Technology in the UAE, and the Department of Economic Development in Abu Dhabi, under the slogan “Transformation in Investment Aspects: Future Investment Opportunities to Promote Sustainable Economic Growth, Diversity, and Prosperity.” The forum promotes sustainable global economic growth, extrapolating the current economic conditions, and the opportunities inherent in them, anticipating foreign direct investment trends, and strategies for fostering various investment projects.
Today, a group of leaders, government officials, decision-makers, people in business, major regional and international investors, major international companies, project owners, and providers of smart city solutions and technology services are racing to participate in this conference, which will be followed by many talks under the auspices of His Highness, in which experts from All over the world, they provide the latest updates and information about the world of business and energy.
And he was waiting for new Emirati successes for His Highness in preparation for the twenty-eighth edition of the United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP 28), which the world has been waiting for from end to end.