I didnt know much about Abu Dhabi when I stepped off the plane at Zayed International Airport. I knew that it was both the capital of the emirate with which it shares its name and of the United Arab Emirates UAE as a whole.
But what I discovered was how much serious money Abu Dhabi is investing in positioning itself as a global centre of arts and culture.
While I was in the city, I visited the Louvre Abu Dhabi, named after the famous museum in Paris, and made possible through an agreement between the UAE and France.
The summit took place in a precinct shared by Berklee Abu Dhabi, the first Middle Eastern outpost of the Berklee College of Music in Boston in the US, the largest independent college of contemporary music in the world.
The Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, named after the famed New York art museum, is under construction.