(MENAFN- Emirates News Agency (WAM)) The seventh Global Financial Markets Forum, GFMF, the annual conference organised by the National Bank of Abu Dhabi, NBAD, will discuss major challenges and opportunities in today's world economy from the perspectives of regulators, asset managers, sovereign wealth funds, SWF, bankers and politicians.

Nasser Ahmed Alsowaidi, Chairman of Abu Dhabi Department of Energy and Chairman of NBAD, will inaugurate the 2015 GFMF with an opening address on March 1st. The two-day conference is expected to draw more than 1,300 attendees.

The first day of 2015 GFMF also features keynote addresses by many distinguished speakers including Sheikh Nahayan bin Mubarak Al-Nahayan, Minister of Culture, Youth, and Social Development.

"NBAD's Global Financial Markets Forum has earned its prestige as one of the most coveted gatherings of the world's influential thinkers and decision-makers, and we continue on to build on our achievement in each successive years," said Mahmood Al Aradi, the Co-Head of Global Wholesale Banking, Senior Managing Director and Head of Global Markets at NBAD.

Following the success of GFMF in Abu Dhabi in previous years, NBAD organised panel discussion series in Kuala Lumpur on the future of energy, and in London on the future of Sukuk. The next series event will be held in Mumbai in June 2015.