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The Next Global Trade System

Thu. July 30th, 2020
Live Online

The multilateral trading system faces an uncertain future. Tensions persist between the U.S. and China, the U.S.- EU trade relationship is strained, and the World Trade Organization requires new impetus to manage a global recession and counter growing protectionism. Can the world escape further economic downturn by refining existing systems or is more dramatic change necessary?

Join us for a conversation with two prominent European and American trade experts, Commissioner Phil Hogan and Robert Zoellick, as they imagine the Next Global Trade System and the rules, institutions, and relationships necessary to reboot the global economy and revitalize the multilateral order.  

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event speakers

Phil Hogan

Phil Hogan is the European Union commissioner for Trade. He previously served as the European commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development.

Robert B. Zoellick

Robert Zoellick is the former president of the World Bank, a former U.S. trade representative, and former U.S. deputy secretary of state. Zoellick currently serves as the senior counselor at the Brunswick Group and is author of America in the World: A History of US Diplomacy and Foreign Policy.

Megan Greene

Megan Greene writes commentary on economics at the Financial Times. She is a senior fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School and at Chatham House.