Maldives-UK Business Forum 2025 Strengthens Economic Ties

Business

The Maldives-UK Business Forum 2025 convened today at The Landmark London, uniting senior Maldivian government officials, UK business leaders, and institutional partners to advance trade and investment cooperation between the two nations.

His Excellency President Dr Mohamed Muizzu led the Maldivian delegation and reaffirmed the United Kingdom’s status as a long-standing strategic partner of the Maldives. In his address, the President highlighted the UK’s significant contributions to the Maldives’ two core economic pillars—tourism and fisheries—while outlining a vision for expanding collaboration into emerging sectors such as creative industries, climate technology, and digitisation. These priorities, he noted, align with the Maldives’ national development agenda to build a resilient and diversified economy.

The forum showcased comprehensive presentations on investment opportunities, underlining the Maldives’ commitment to creating a competitive, investor-friendly environment.

A key highlight of the event was an interactive dialogue session where UK investors engaged directly with four Maldivian Cabinet Ministers:

1. Dr Abdulla Khaleel (Minister of Foreign Affairs)
2. Mr Thoriq Ibrahim (Minister of Tourism and Environment)
3. Mr Ahmed Shiyam (Minister of Fisheries)
4. Mr Mohamed Saeed (Minister of Economic Development and Trade)

The ministers provided insights into sectoral priorities, regulatory reforms, and strategic opportunities across tourism, fisheries, renewable energy, finance, and sustainability initiatives.

The forum marked a major milestone with the official launch of the Maldives Fisheries Brand – “From Maldives”, a strategic initiative aimed at positioning Maldivian fisheries products as premium, sustainably sourced offerings in global markets.

Further strengthening bilateral ties, the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade and the West London Chambers of Commerce signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to foster long-term business linkages and institutional partnerships between the two countries.

The event concluded with a high-level networking session, creating valuable business-to-business and business-to-government connections for future collaboration.

The Maldives-UK Business Forum 2025 stands as a significant step toward strengthening the economic partnership, opening new pathways for investment and trade across both traditional and emerging sectors.