# Professor Aswath Damodaran is interviewed about Saudi Aramco in advance of its IPO

1 Faculty News June 18, 2017 ![Financial Times logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_025699.jpg?itok=5SpaxEbn)>

Excerpt from the [Financial Times](https://www.ft.com/content/c21840d2-5042-11e7-bfb8-997009366969) -- "'Aramco is part oil and gas company, part government welfare fund, part sovereign investment fund,' says [Aswath Damodaran](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/aswath-damodaran), a professor at New York University. 'At the same time it’s a symbol of Saudi Arabia to the world. It’s all of these things. How much can you truly separate these functions?'"

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