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Muscat Daily reported that the Oman Investment Authority signed an investment agreement in partnership with Hong Kong’s Innovation and Technology Commission and China-based Templewater during the Belt and Road Summit held in Hong Kong on September 9 and 10. Under the pact the authority will commit 25 percent of the Templewater Innovation Fund’s capital while the fund directs 50 percent of its total capital toward investments in a range of promising sectors across the sultanate. The move advances the authority’s Omani Angle approach applied to its international investments to generate benefits that extend beyond financial returns. Officials described the commitment as matched by an allocation twice that size for projects within Oman.
The agreement reflects the Oman Investment Authority’s method of leveraging international investments to create added value for the national economy, according to the Muscat Daily account of the summit participation. It seeks to attract capital, companies and technologies to local sectors while facilitating knowledge transfer, building partnerships and opening new markets. The pact adds to the authority’s existing investments in the innovation and technology ecosystem inside the sultanate and supports broader economic diversification objectives. Oman Observer data from earlier this year showed the authority’s strategic partnerships across Asia, Europe and the Middle East delivered robust performance throughout 2025.
Muneer Al Muneeri, deputy president for operations at the Oman Investment Authority, told The National that the authority holds investments in more than 20 funds and assisted in establishing Uzbekistan’s first private equity investors. Al Muneeri said these partnerships enable the sourcing of appropriate transactions, technologies and connections between regions while nurturing long-term opportunities in emerging markets. He noted that the approach ultimately aims to ensure regions continue developing and generating prospects on a sustained basis. The National placed the comments in the context of discussions around Middle East-backed financing for infrastructure in the Global South at the same summit.
Ibrahim Al-Eisri, chief investment officer for private markets at the Oman Investment Authority, had previously indicated at an earlier edition of the Belt and Road Summit that the authority would launch a Central Asia-focused fund featuring a major Chinese limited partner to link China, Oman and Central Asia. Al-Eisri stated that the authority had already formed three investment funds with Chinese partners totalling nearly $700 million. He added that Chinese investors increasingly seek to utilise Oman’s strategic location, low energy costs and port infrastructure, with the authority often joining as an equity partner. Oman Observer figures show the authority expanded its Oman-Uzbekistan investment partnership to $266.7 million in 2025 and deployed $63 million into four new assets in retail, agriculture, hospitality and higher education.
The Oman Investment Authority also agreed a $100 million joint investment platform with Jordan’s Social Security Investment Fund last year that targets telecommunications, agriculture, tourism, pharmaceuticals and logistics in both countries, Oman Observer reported. It signed a separate landmark agreement with Turkey’s OYAK to create the Oman-OYAK Investment Company with a planned size of $500 million focused on food, industry, mining, energy and logistics. These platforms form part of the authority’s ongoing expansion of bilateral cooperation that aligns with Oman Vision 2040 priorities. Al Muneeri emphasised that such initiatives connect different parts of the world through targeted technology and transaction flows.
