FT Global Affairs and Business Council - Berlin Edition
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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 or apply via the form below.
The conference sessions on the 19 June will be livestreamed via the FT Live YouTube page.
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A Note from the Editor
In just a few months Donald Trump’s administration has upended the world order – using new tariffs to launch a global trade war that threatens untold damage to businesses and markets, and withdrawing support for Ukraine and continental allies to re-engage with Russia. For European exporters and manufacturers, this destruction of decades-old relationships is forcing a complete rethink of supply chains and business models — and of the very security of the continent — at a time when new technologies are already creating widespread disruption. For global business leaders, adapting to these seismic geopolitical shifts has become the number one strategic priority of 2025.
How can businesses engage with new governments in the US and Europe as the transatlantic alliance fractures? What new risks and 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?
To offer the expertise and analysis that business leaders need, the Financial Times has created the FT Global Affairs and Business Council: a series of four invitation-only meetings of the world’s most senior businesspeople, held in four different cities, on four continents, which I will chair. Leveraging the FT’s unique convening power, these events will draw on the insights of government leaders, economists, trade and security experts to shed light on the turbulent new world order — and what may lie ahead.
Alec Russell
Foreign Editor, Financial Times
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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