Sovereign Wealth Funds in Resource Economies: Institutional and Fiscal Foundations
ISBN: 9780231544993
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Columbia University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Sovereign wealth funds; Natural resources;

Sovereign Wealth Funds in Resource Economies explains the fiscal rules and institutional structures that can make SWFs thrive, providing a practical and theoretical guide to their optimal use in resource-revenue management. Khalid Alsweilem and Malan Rietveld's institutional perspective examines both investment and disbursement strategies.


Khalid Alsweilem is a visiting scholar with Stanford University Global Projects Center. He is a former fellow at the Belfer Center at Harvard University. Alsweilem is the former chief counselor and head of investment at the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency (SAMA). He is one of the longest serving and most successful sovereign investment practitioners, having held senior investment positions at SAMA for over two decades. Alsweilem was a lead author for three recent papers on sovereign funds models and institutions that were published by Harvard University.

Malan Rietveld is a fellow at the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment at Columbia University and was previously a fellow at the Center for International Development at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is the editor of several books on sovereign wealth funds, including The New Frontiers of Sovereign Investment (Columbia, 2017, with Perrine Toledano). He has advised several sovereign wealth funds on governance, management, and strategic issues.
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