FT Global Affairs and Business Council - Dubai Edition
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Thank you for your interest in the FT Global Affairs and Business Council Dubai. This event is by invitation only for chief executives and business leaders. If you are interested in attending, please email Rohin Sian from our Delegate Services at Rohin.Sian@ft.com
The conference sessions on the 13 November will be livestreamed via the event website.
A Note from the Editor
In just a few months Donald Trump’s administration has upended the world order – using tariffs to launch a global trade war that threatens untold disruption to businesses and markets, challenging supply chains and trade between Asia, Europe and the Middle East. The US president has also broken with decades of US foreign policy, reducing support for traditional allies and seeking to reengage with Russia, against the backdrop of fresh potential confrontation with Iran and Yemen’s Houthi rebels. Yet, at the same time Trump has hailed a new dawn of co-operation with Saudi Arabia — promoting investment and economic development in the kingdom, and giving the oil-rich nation a role in peace talks between Russia and Ukraine. For business leaders operating across the Middle East, adapting to these geopolitical shifts is now the number one priority.
How can companies engage with the US and Asia as trade routes to the Middle East are redrawn? Where will supply chains need to be rerouted as a new era of US protectionism changes business models for exporters? What can be expected next from the Trump administration? Where will businesses need to move their operations to survive?
To offer the expertise and analysis that business leaders need, the Financial Times has created the FT Global Affairs & Business Council: a series of 4 invitation-only meetings of the world’s most senior businesspeople, held in 4 different cities, on 4 continents, which I will chair. Leveraging the FT’s unique convening power, these events will draw on the insights of government leaders, economists, trade and security experts to shed light on the turbulent new world order — and what may lie ahead.
Alec Russell
Foreign Editor, Financial Times
Ukraine and the transatlantic alliance
How can businesses engage with new governments in the US and Europe as the transatlantic alliance fractures?
Defence and security
If applicable, highlight which themes / sessions are in-person.
Trade, tariffs and supply chains
Where will supply chains need to be rerouted as tariffs and trade wars make former business models uneconomic?
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