Saving Global Trade July 28th 10 am EDT
Covid-19 is the perfect storm for the global trading system. On top of the U.S.-China trade war and an upsurge in technology nationalism, borders all over the world are closing to the flow of people, goods and services. Slowing trade and shrinking supply chains will hurt the most vulnerable countries in the developing world. How can we save the multilateral trading system?
Speakers
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Charlene Barshefsky
Senior International Partner
WilmerHale
Ambassador Charlene Barshefsky, Senior International Partner at WilmerHale in Washington, DC, chairs the firm’s International Trade, Investment and Market Access Group. She advises multinational corporations on their market access, investment and acquisition strategies across the globe. Long renowned in the US and around the world for her negotiating, policy, strategic, and legal skills in transactions with governments, state-owned enterprises and private parties, she joined WilmerHale after serving as the United States Trade Representative from 1997 to 2001, and acting and deputy USTR from 1993 to 1996.
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Bob Davis
Senior Editor
The Wall Street Journal
Bob Davis is a Pulitzer Prize–winning senior editor at the Wall Street Journal’s Washington, DC, bureau. He covers economic issues and continues to write about China, where he was posted from 2011 to 2014. Davis has served as the Journal’s bureau chief in Brussels, covering the European Union, and as the Latin America bureau chief. He lives in Washington, DC.
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Peter Mandelson
Co-Founder and Chairman
Global Counsel
Peter is Co-founder and Chairman of Global Counsel, a regulatory, political risk and public policy advisory business based in London, Brussels, Washington and Singapore. He is a former European Trade Commissioner and British First Secretary of State. As Trade Commissioner, he negotiated trade agreements with many countries and led European negotiations in the WTO Doha World Trade Round. Prior to this, he held various Cabinet posts under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown including Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills. As well as Chairman of Global Counsel, Peter is a Senior Adviser to Lazard and President of the Great Britain China Centre. Peter is Chairman of the Design Museum in London and Chancellor of Manchester Metropolitan University.
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Austin Ramirez
President and CEO
Husco International
Austin Ramirez is President and CEO of Husco International, a privately-held engineering and manufacturing company. During his eight-year tenure as CEO the company has tripled in size to $500M in global sales, received designation as Global Growth Company by the World Economic Forum and been recognized as Wisconsin Manufacturer of the Year. Austin began his career as consultant with McKinsey & Company, where he specialized in corporate finance and industrial operations. An active industry leader, Austin serves as a Director of the National Association of Manufacturers, the Association of Equipment Manufacturers and Old National Bancorp (NASDAQ: ONB).
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Lingling Wei
Senior China Correspondent
The Wall Street Journal
Lingling Wei is an award-winning senior China correspondent, formerly based in the Wall Street Journal’s Beijing bureau. Hailing from a farm province in southeastern China, she came of age as a journalist in New York and then returned to China in early 2011 to report on changes in her homeland. She focuses on the intersection of Chinese politics and the economy.
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Andrew Browne
Editorial Director
Bloomberg New Economy
Prior to joining Bloomberg, Andrew Browne was China Editor, Senior Correspondent and Columnist for The Wall Street Journal. He started his career in journalism in 1982 at the South China Morning Post and then moved to Reuters News Agency, where he spent 20 years running bureaus around Asia before becoming Asia Pacific News Editor.
Andrew joined the Wall Street Journal in 2004. He was a member of a team of Journal reporters in Beijing that won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 2007, and an Overseas Press Club award in 2011.
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