The Mesopotamia Economic Forum is a permanent regional platform for economic cooperation, investment, connectivity and strategic dialogue.
MEF brings together senior government officials, business leaders, investors, financial institutions and regional stakeholders around a shared proposition: stronger economic corridors can create wider opportunity, resilience and prosperity across the region.
Established in Baghdad and working in partnership with the Federation of Iraqi Chambers of Commerce, MEF provides a permanent framework for constructive economic engagement, anchored by an annual flagship summit in the heart of the region.
To strengthen regional cooperation, encourage investment, improve connectivity and create sustained channels of engagement between public institutions, private enterprise and international partners.
To position Iraq and the wider Mesopotamian region as a renewed centre for regional economic cooperation and sustainable growth.
The Tigris and Euphrates basin has long linked communities, markets and cultures across what are today Iraq, Türkiye, Syria and the wider region. MEF uses that historical geography not as nostalgia, but as a modern framework for connectivity, trade, investment and shared prosperity.
Road, rail, port, energy and digital corridors that connect Iraq to neighbouring economies and global markets.
Practical opportunities across infrastructure, energy, finance, technology, industry and reconstruction.
Long-term engagement between government, business, financial institutions and regional partners.
Baghdad provides the setting for the inaugural Baghdad Summit 2026: a city whose historic role as a centre of exchange, knowledge and commerce is matched by Iraq’s contemporary importance to regional connectivity, energy, investment and reconstruction.
The Baghdad Summit moves deliberately from strategic direction, to connectivity and sector opportunity, and finally to investment, innovation, partnership and practical outcomes.
