Focused section: World Investment Forum 2023: Key issues and elements of a forward-looking research agenda: Introduction

UNCTAD’s eighth World Investment Forum 2023 (WIF23) provided the opportunity to tap into the latest research and academic thinking to strengthen the support and advice to Member States. The forum had more than 150 sessions and 8,000 attendees, including more than 1,100 speakers. Heads of state and government, ministers and international organization representatives attended, as well as policymakers and legislators, parliamentarians, heads of investment promotion agencies, treaty negotiators, regulators, chief executive officers and other executives of multinational enterprises (MNEs), academics and civil society.