The IsDB Group’s 51st Annual Meetings run from 16 to 19 June in Baku under the theme ‘Regional Integration for Sustainable Prosperity’, held under the patronage of President Ilham Aliyev. The gathering brings together more than 2,000 participants, finance and economy ministers, central bank governors, and private-sector leaders from the bank’s 57 member states. Alongside it runs the 14th Private Sector Forum, with over 1,500 participants, plus an Islamic finance forum and a halal-economy session.
The Central Asian states are IsDB members, and the bank is a growing source of development finance across the region. The meetings are a channel for Gulf and Islamic capital, including sukuk structures, into infrastructure and energy, and they put connectivity and trade among member countries at the center of the agenda.
Two capitals, one week, the same message to global money: bet on the region’s integration.
The timing matters. The Baku meetings fall in the same four days as the Tashkent forum, giving the wider region two simultaneous platforms to pitch for capital, one in Uzbekistan and one in Azerbaijan, both built around the language of resilience and integration.