Under the patronage of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Salman bin Abdulaziz, and on behalf of the king, Prince Faisal bin Bandar bin Abdulaziz, Governor of Riyadh, will inaugurate the eighth session of the Riyadh Economic Forum, which will be held during the period from 27 to November 2017 29, at the King Faisal Conference Hall. The session is of great importance because it comes under the transformations of the national economy by restructuring and building an economic base that depends on diversity and optimal exploitation of the Kingdoms natural and human resources and integrating the philosophy of innovation and technical knowledge into the production system. The Riyadh Economic Forum plays an important role as a research center for strategic thinking in support of the economic development decision-making by identifying the most pressing economic issues on the scene and finding realistic solutions to them. The Forum will address five studies in the coming session: The role of the private sector in achieving the objectives of the vision 2030 of the Kingdom, increasing added value by stimulating investment in mineral wealth sector, the legislative system, investment in infrastructure, and productivity of the component Human nature.