NIC2013’s mission is to initiate a sustainable platform for exchanging up-to-date theoretical and applied achievements and research opportunities on asset management for sovereign wealth funds. The scientific committee is responsible for handling the review and selection process for the received papers and developing conference main theme,program and sessions. It is composed of internationally renowned and active specialists from academic and practitioners in asset management,risk management and other related topics. They are from a wide array of the financial industry and include those members willing to play a role in sustaining and developing of sovereign wealth fund’s strategies in particular.