Middle East & Africa

DRI Dialogues: Prof. Nyarko – Amb. Green on What’s Next for Development

NYU DRI Development Dialogues: International Development at a Crossroads Featured Guests: NYU Professor Yaw Nyarko & Ambassador Mark Green In the inaugural episode of the NYU DRI Development Dialogues, Professor Yaw Nyarko sits down with former USAID Administrator and U.S. Ambassador to Tanzania Mark Green to discuss the rapidly shifting landscape of global development. Following […]

The Sovereign AI Architects

By Winston Ma, DRI-WISC Affiliate, Executive Director of NYU’s Global Public Investment Funds Forum (GPIFF), and Adjunct Professor, NYU School of Law This case study examines how Gulf region sovereign wealth funds—particularly in Abu Dhabi—are building AI capabilities across the full technology stack. While not universally replicable, the model offers insight into how capital, energy, […]

From Diagnosis to Deployment: Why EXIM’s Project Vault Matters

For years, the hardest problem in critical minerals was not geology. It was demand certainty. Across cobalt, lithium, rare earths, and other strategic inputs, the West has known where resources exist, how to extract them, and why they matter. What it has struggled to do is finance projects at scale outside China’s orbit. The reason is […]

Securing the Supply Chains of the Future

Building Digital Trust Together

Part of my Mind the Gap and Innovative Imperative series on strategic competition in technology.   Around the world, nations are racing to build the digital foundations of their economies — connecting citizens, powering innovation, and modernizing essential services. What’s at stake is not simply who leads in artificial intelligence or semiconductors, but who shapes the architecture of the […]