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Creating Growth and Jobs for a New Era

No Recovery without Trade and Investment

January 18, 2024
14:00–14:45 (Europe/Amsterdam time zone)

About this session

Trade tensions threaten growth. Over the past 30 years, trade and investment have been critical drivers of prosperity. Given current geo-economic shifts and fragilities, how can we salvage these two growth engines and retool them for the future?

This is a livestreamed session. Simultaneous interpretation in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Russian and Spanish.

Speakers

VD
Valdis Dombrovskis
Executive Vice-President for an Economy that Works for People; Commissioner for Trade
European Commission
CF
Chrystia Freeland
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Canada
Office of the Deputy Prime Minister of Canada
BM
Brian Moynihan
Chair and Chief Executive Officer
Bank of America
KM
Khaldoon Khalifa Al Mubarak
Managing Director and Group Chief Executive Officer
Mubadala Investment Company
NO
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Director-General
World Trade Organization (WTO)

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