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Keynote, expert, and conference speakers on trade, globalization, tariffs, non-tariff barriers, WTO, WTO rules, GATT, China, America, and trade wars. The weaponization of trade is but one aspect of the recent US-Sino competition, with the specific US objective of slowing Chinese growth to limit what America perceives as a geopolitical threat. The result is a world is that seems to be in reverse from recent trends of globalization.
Arni Pall Arnason
Iceland Minister of Economic Affairs 2010-11, responsible for co-ordination of IMF plan and a process of financial restructuring dealing successfully with unprecedented levels of corporate debt.... [more]
Michael Arthur
President of Boeing Europe, and MD, UK and Ireland. A former top diplomat. Led the Maastricht Treaty negotiating team. Ambassador postings included Africa, Paris, Washington, India, Germany and as DG for Europe and Economic issues.... [more]
Alan Beattie
Alan Beattie, senior trade writer at the Financial Times, based in Brussels, speaking on trade and globalisation. ... [more]
Lars Christensen
Internationally renowned Danish economist, founder of Markets and Money Advisory and of Market Monetarist. Author of Milton Friedman - a pragmatic revolutionary.... [more]
Alastair Darling
Former Labour MP and Chancellor of the Exchequer who steered the United Kingdom through the worst financial crisis of modern times. ... [more]
Dr Florence Eid-Oakden
Specialised in economic and market studies on the Middle East & North Africa. Formerly Head of MENA research at JP Morgan, and World Bank on Latin America & North Africa and contributed to the World Economic Forum's Arab World Competitiveness Reports... [more]
Peter Frankopan
One of the world's leading historians of the future - wrote The Silk Roads: A New History of the World which explains the importance of the OBOR, the Silk Road of the future. ... [more]
Rebecca Harding
Leading researcher, economist, co-founder and CEO at Coriolis Technologies. Formerly Chief Economist at the British Bankers Association.... [more]
Charles Hendry
Charles Hendry was UK Minister of State for Energy and Climate Change and speaks on renewables including tidal and offshore wind power.... [more]
David Henig
A leading expert in Brexit negotiations and the trade policy issues arising from Brexit. Established the new UK Department for International Trade in 2016, developing options for UK trade with the USA and non-EU countries.... [more]
Prof John Kay
Leading economist and thinker, lecturer and broadcaster, he contributes a weekly column to the Financial Times. ... [more]
Dr Denis MacShane
Europe expert and political insider specialising in penetrating analysis. Offers frank insight into how ministers and politicians arrive at decisions.... [more]
George Magnus
An economist and commentator, George Magnus is an Associate at the China Centre, Oxford University. He is author of 'The Age of Aging' and 'Uprising: will emerging markets shape or shake the world economy?' ... [more]
Douglas McWilliams
Author and economist Douglas McWilliams seeks to explain and to present the challenges, and some possible futures, for advanced western economies in the face of the digital revolution.... [more]
Dambisa Moyo
Global economist and bestselling author who analyses the macroeconomy and international affairs.... [more]
Richard Needham
Speaker Sir Richard Needham was Deputy Chairman of Dyson for four years, now senior independent Director. A former Minister of Trade and the visionary architect of Northern Ireland's reconstruction and redevelopment. Sir Richard Needham is both a str... [more]
Rain Newton-Smith
Director of Economics at CBI. Former Head of Emerging Markets at Oxford Economics and advisor to the IMF. Honoured as Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.... [more]
William Patey
Sir William is one of the world's leading experts on the Middle East after frontline diplomatic postings in Sudan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and finally Afghanistan. He advises businesses working in the Middle East, in particular the oil and gas sector, fin... [more]
Sir Ivan Rogers
Formerly the UK's Permanent Representative to the EU and one of the foremost experts on the European Union and the issues arising from Brexit.... [more]
Mirka Skrzypczak
An authority on the use of blockchain in the banking sector and in trade finance, expert in the future of banking.... [more]
Professor Peter Sommer
Professor Peter Sommer is a globally recognised expert in the field of cybersecurity, cyberwar, cybercrime, hacking, Internet futures, risk analysis and computer forensics. He is a well-established expert on computer security advising stock exchanges... [more]
Dr Linda Yueh
Economist, broadcaster and author. A fellow in economics at Oxford University, she is also an economics correspondent for Bloomberg TV.... [more]
