EDB wins top UN award

The Bahrain Economic Development Board (EDB) has won the United Nations’ Investment Promotion Award for its excellence in boosting investment into sectors that will help meet the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. The award acknowledges EDB’s work with Amazon Web Services that is set to launch its first Middle East ’Region’ in Bahrain in 2019.

Receiving the award at the World Investment Forum in Geneva, Zayed R. Alzayani, Minister of Industry, Commerce and Tourism, and EDB Board Member said: “Bahrain is honoured with the recognition of this international award, which is also an addition to our continuous successes that are a result of the vision of His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, His Royal Highness Prime Minister Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa and His Royal Highness Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, the Crown Prince, Deputy Supreme Commander, and First Deputy Prime Minister.”

Khalid Al Rumaihi, Chief Executive of the EDB, commented: ‘Working across the public and private sectors to attract investment is at the heart of our Team Bahrain approach and was crucial in securing AWS’ significant investment. This award is a testament to that, and we are immensely proud to have the UN’s Investment Promotion Award recognise many years of hard work by the EDB team.’ Innovative approaches to encouraging growth is a key focus of the UN’s Sustainability Goals and are illustrated by a number of other initiatives in Bahrain that were highlighted by the award’s judges.