Director of the ODFS, Ribal Al-Assad has been interviewed for World Policy Forum TV at this years conference.

The conference is hosted by His Royal Highness Prince Turki Al-Faisal who served as the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to the United States of America from September 2005 until February 2007.

His Royal Highness is also involved in a number of cultural and social activities. He is one of the founders of the King Faisal Foundation and is the Chairman of the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies in Riyadh. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown, the Oxford Center for Islamic Studies, and the King Faisal Foundation.

Founded in 2008, the World Policy Conference (WPC) is an independent organisation which aims to contribute to improving all aspects of governance, with a view to promoting a world that is more open, more prosperous, fairer and more respectful of the diversity of States and nations.

Sa réunion annuelle, à taille humaine, rassemble des personnalités des cinq continents - responsables politiques et économiques, représentants de la société civile, universitaires et journalistes - dans un climat de confiance et un esprit de tolérance pour examiner, débattre et proposer des solutions constructives aux grands défis régionaux et internationaux.