FT Global Affairs and Business Council - Dubai Edition
Business leaders around the world are facing widespread disruption with seismic geopolitical shifts. The Financial Times has created the FT Global Affairs and Business Council: a series of invitation-only meetings offering the expertise and analysis that decision-makers need in uncertain times
This half-day conference ending with a private dinner will examine how leaders in Gulf and Middle-Eastern states are responding to disruptive forces, from US foreign policy shifts to the rise of artificial intelligence. What’s next for global trade and supply chains in the age of tariffs? Where are the emerging opportunities for growth? How should Gulf investors best interpret the stresses facing the global economy?
A Note from the FT's Foreign 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
Key Discussion Points
US co-operation
What does President Trump's approach to investment and security policy in the region mean for Gulf states?
Trade and suppy chains
How can companies engage with the US and Asia as trade routes to the Middle East are redrawn?
Markets and investment
Which states are best placed to avoid the disruption and volatility caused by the upending of the old world order?
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