Asia House Global Trade Dialogue 2021 - Rebooting trade for a Post-COVID world

Source: press release

The Asia House Global Trade Dialogue returns in December with a forward-looking discussion on the transition towards a post-COVID global recovery.

While the COVID-19 pandemic continues to present public health and economic challenges around the world, countries are starting to plot their recoveries from the crisis, with global trade set to be a key driver of economic growth.

UK Secretary of State for International Trade, Anne-Marie Trevelyan, will share her thoughts on the future of trade as economies seek to build back from the pandemic. The Secretary of State will also outline the UK’s trade strategy in Asia and beyond.

Japan’s former Foreign Minister Kono Taro, WTO Deputy Director General Angela Ellard, and  Xinquan Tu, Dean and Professor of the China Institute for WTO Studies of University of International Business and Economics, Beijing, will share their thoughts on current geopolitical and trade tensions, while Scott Beaumont, President, Google Asia Pacific, and Amanda Murphy, Head of Commercial Banking, South & Southeast Asia, HSBC, will explore the role of digital technologies in the global economic recovery.