FT Global Affairs and Business Council - Berlin Edition
Thank you for your interest in the FT Global Affairs and Business Council Berlin. This event is by invitation only for chief executives and business leaders. If you are interested in attending, please email Rohin Sian from our Delegate Services at Rohin.Sian@ft.com
The conference sessions on the 19 June will be livestreamed via the event website.
A Note from the Editor
A new US administration under the second presidency of Donald Trump has upended the world order – withdrawing foreign policy support for European allies to focus on Russia and China, launching trade wars in the name of national security, and making territorial claims on independent states. At the same time, rapid technological advances, particularly in artificial intelligence, a backlash against costly climate policies, and a drive to deregulation are reshaping business sectors - creating profitable opportunities for some, and existential threats to others. For global business leaders, adapting to these seismic geopolitical shifts has become the number one priority of 2025.
How can businesses engage with new governments in the US and Europe as the transatlantic alliance fractures? What new opportunities will be presented by a resetting of US relations with Russia and China? Where will supply chains need to be rerouted as tariffs and trade wars make former business models uneconomic? How will a rethink of the global energy transition change the risk landscape for companies?
To offer the insights 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. I will chair and leveraging the FT’s unique convening power, these events will offer briefings from government leaders, policymakers, economists, trade and security experts on the latest and next most likely global developments.
Alec Russell
Foreign Editor, Financial Times
More to be confirmed.
Ukraine and the transatlantic alliance
How can businesses engage with new governments in the US and Europe as the transatlantic alliance fractures?
Defence and security
What will a new approach to European security, as the US withdraws support, mean for businesses in the region?
Trade, tariffs and supply chains
Where will supply chains need to be rerouted as tariffs and trade wars make former business models uneconomic?
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