One of the most powerful and underexamined commercial partnerships in the global economy is taking shape along the corridors connecting the United States, Africa, and the Near East. Sovereign wealth funds from the Gulf are deploying capital into African infrastructure, agriculture, and energy. Near East trading hubs are emerging as critical logistics and financial gateways between African producers and global markets. And U.S. companies — with world-class expertise in deal structuring, technology, and market development — are increasingly positioned as the connective tissue that makes this three-way partnership work at scale. 

Realizing that potential requires more than capital. It demands investment structures that bridge the risk appetites and return expectations of investors across three distinct market environments, public-private partnerships that align government priorities with commercial imperatives, and the cross-regional relationships that turn deal flow into deal execution. The sectors where this triangle of opportunity is most compelling — infrastructure, energy, agribusiness, critical minerals, and digital trade — are precisely those where all three regions have complementary strengths and shared commercial interests. 

This session convenes senior financial institutions, private equity leaders, sovereign wealth fund representatives, development finance institutions, and government officials from across the corridor to examine how cross-regional capital is being mobilized, how bankable projects are structured, and how all three partners can align to get deals done.