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How can we build prosperity amid shifting geo-economic and industrial realities?

Less Talk, More Deals

June 23, 2026
14:30–15:30 (Asia/Shanghai time zone)

About this session

With multilateral trade governance under strain, countries are turning to smaller strategic groupings with defined spheres of interest to advance trade agendas. Is minilateralism an effective alternative to the global trading system that dominated the last century? This session was developed in collaboration with The Straits Times.

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Speakers

KB
Kody Blois
Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister
House of Commons of Canada
MD
Mark-Alexandre Doumba
Minister of Digital Economy and Innovation
Ministry of Digital Economy and Innovation of Gabon
AM
Ana Fernanda Maiguashca
President
Private Competitiveness Council
RV
Ravi Velloor
Senior Columnist
Straits Times

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