H.E. Shaikh Mohammed bin Khalifa Al-Khalifa,
Minister of Oil, participated in the Bahrain Bay Geo-Economic Forum sessions
organized by International Institute for Strategic Studies “IISS” (Middle East)
in the Kingdom of Bahrain during the period from the 16 - 17 September 2017 at
the Four Seasons hotel, in the presence of the business leaders and the senior government
officials to discuss the new economic and developmental topics in the wake of
the continuous political variables, and its impact on the national economics,
the energy policies, the commercial exchange and the business strategies, under
the title "Adaption to the New Reality: the Energy’s Future and the
Climate Change Agenda”.
During
the session, each of the following have given his speech: The Head of the Oil Markets
Unit at the International Energy Agency (IEA), Mr. Neil Atkinson; the Head of
the Climate, Biodiversity, Water, and Environmental Management in the Economic
Cooperation and Development (OECD), Dr. Simon Bakel, and the Managing Director
and the Head of the Strategy at the Japanese Institute of Energy Economics, Dr.
Ken Koyama.