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How can we cooperate in a more contested world?

Governments as Economic Super Actors

January 20, 2026
08:15–09:00 (Europe/Amsterdam time zone)

About this session

Tariffs are being used increasingly both to promote domestic production and as a bargaining chip, triggering a proliferation of policy responses and negotiations. Will tariff-led industrial policy remain the reality in the long term and what measurable impacts is this having on global trade?

This is a livestreamed session.

Speakers

AR
Akazawa Ryosei
Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan
FC
François-Philippe Champagne
Minister of Finance
Department of Finance of Canada
KC
Kathleen Claussen
Professor
Georgetown University Law Center
SM
Sunny Mann
Global Chair
Baker McKenzie
MS
Martin Sandbu
European Economics Commentator
Financial Times
BW
Bob Willen
Global Managing Partner and Chairman
Kearney

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