Business leaders must remain vigilant about global political developments, anticipate potential risks, and adjust their strategies accordingly. Geopolitical tensions affect supply chains, market access, and investment environments, requiring executives to proactively address these challenges to protect their organisations’ interests and build resilience.
UBI Business School and its corporate partner, BECI / Enterprise Europe Brussels, is organising its first event of the “Hello World” series to educate Brussels companies with key and leading experts about the last trends of geopolitics and its influence on global business.
Programme
Why geopolitics, again?
Wars, friendshoring, deglobalisation, decoupling, technology restrictions
Russia, China, Taiwan, Middle East, Global South, Aukus (Australia, UK, USA), EU expansion
What do they mean for business?
UBI Business School
The ‘return’ of geopolitics: how to deal with it?
The “return” of state aid and national industrial policies (Road and Belt, IRA, Global gateway, BRICS+)
Changes in trade agreements – the end of WTO?
Slower capital flows and international direct investment
Slowbalization, nearshoring, and stronger regional blocks
Impact on inflation and potential GDP growth
European Investment Bank
Sustainable development: [renewable] energy in geopolitics
The green and just transition
New sources of energy, the role of Latin America
Opportunities for investments
Upgrading the production and market structures
Global Collaboration, new international partnerships
OECD
Beyond Bretton Woods: is it the end of the dollar dominance?
De-dollarization dynamics, are we moving away from traditional dollar dependency?
New development banks and geopolitics
The financial strength of Global South economies
Strategic insights and global influence of the Global South
What’s next?
By Alvaro Mendez
London School of Economics
Practical information
Date: 30 May 2024
Time: 17:00-19:30 CET
Location: BECI, Av. Louise 500, 1050 Bruxelles, Belgium
