What Will Boost Foreign Investment in Saudi Arabia?

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00:00PIF is a big engine, and it has played a key role in the transformation we've seen at the financial-economic front.

00:08Investments is the key question here.

00:11And my question to you, what's the missing puzzle to see more foreign direct investment come into Saudi Arabia?

00:18The numbers are good, but they could be better.

00:21So what's missing, in your view?

00:23First of all, I think it will be going up.

00:25I mean, there's a focus on it.

00:27You're building data centers now.

00:29But I think one of the huge things that's going to help drive it is peace in the Middle East.

00:33I mean, and I give Saudi Arabia a lot of the credit for that.

00:36Maybe the sole credit, the breakthrough, that peace in the Middle East will give people much more comfort to invest in it.

00:42In Saudi Arabia, but the GCC writ large.

00:45And I think that's the door that opens up.

00:48If you have the whole region continue to grow aggressively and develop new industries like technology, I think that might be the key.

00:59And I think that's the key.