Hosts

	Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa King of Bahrain
	Khalifa Bin Salman Al-Khalifa Prime Minister Kingdom of Bahrain
	Salman Bin Hamad Al-Khalifa Crown Prince Kingdom of Bahrain
	Khalid Al Faisal President Arab Thought Foundation

Bahrain 2007 Sponsors

Main Sponsors - Fikr 6 conference : Arab Strategies for the Global Era

Orascom Telecom - Sponsor - Fikr 6 conference : Arab Strategies for the Global Era

Aramco- Sponsor - Fikr 6 conference : Arab Strategies for the Global Era

Golden Sponsors - Fikr 6 conference : Arab Strategies for the Global Era

Al Faisaliah Group - Sponsor - Fikr 6 Conference : Arab Strategies for the Global Era

OFID - Sponsor - Fikr 6 Conference : Arab Strategies for the Global Era

Nomura - Sponsor - Fikr 6 Conference : Arab Strategies for the Global Era

Silver Sponsors - Fikr 6 conference : Arab Strategies for the Global Era

GIB - Sponsor - Fikr 6 Conference : Arab Strategies for the Global Era

GFH- Sponsor - Fikr 6 conference : Arab Strategies for the Global Era

Media Sponsors - Fikr 6 conference : Arab Strategies for the Global Era

Al-Hayat- Sponsor - Fikr 6 Conference : Arab Strategies for the Global Era

BBC - Sponsor - Fikr 6 Conference : Arab Strategies for the global Era

CNBC Arabiya - Sponsor - Fikr 6 Conference : Arab Strategies for the Global Era

SAMER S. KHOURY
Executive Vice President
CCC

Samer Said Khoury was born in Beirut, Lebanon on 23rd August 1960 to a Palestinian family that came to Lebanon during the 1948 Israeli-Arab war.

Samer spent his childhood between Kuwait and Lebanon, where he received his high school diploma in 1977 from the American High School in Kuwait.

He studied at California State University from 1978 to 1981 when he received his B.Sc. in Civil Engineering and went on to obtain an MBA in 1984 from the University of Southern California.

Following this, Samer returned to the Arabian Gulf and worked his way up the ranks of his father’s engineering and construction company - Consolidated Contractors Company (CCC) - which is one of the largest Arab international construction companies operating throughout the Middle East, Africa, CIS, Europe and America. (website: http://www.ccc.gr).

From 1987 through 1990, Samer was responsible for the total operations of CCC in Kuwait, with an average turnover of 50$M/year and more than 1,000 permanent staff.

In 1990, Samer moved to the Head Office of CCC in Athens, Greece. He worked in various departments gaining a wide range of experience in the Engineering & Construction field. In 1997, he took over the position of Executive Vice President Operations of the Group being responsible for the marketing and execution of the Group’s worldwide activities.

CCC today is a large conglomerate with a broad range of activities ranging from its traditional engineering & construction role to the more extensive (innovative) role of an oil & gas and power developer. More than 120,000 individuals are employed worldwide and, according to the ENR listing, CCC ranks 17th amongst the largest international contractors. CCC’s revenue in 2007 is in excess of 4 Billion US Dollars.

Samer is highly involved in business, social and educational activities in the Middle East and Europe. He is also a Board and Committee Member of the following Associations: