FT Global Affairs and Business Council - New York Edition
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Thank you for your interest in the FT Global Affairs and Business Council New York. 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 25 September will be livestreamed via the event website.
A Note from the Editor
In just a few months Donald Trump’s administration has upended the world order – using tariffs to launch a global trade war that threatens untold disruption to businesses and markets, and reducing support for Ukraine and traditional allies to re-engage with Russia. The new stance ushers in an unpredictable era of ‘geoeconomics’ in which power is projected through commerce. At the same time, a rethinking of decades-old alliances creates new risks for multinational companies — creating opportunities for some but existential threats to others. For US 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 trade routes are redrawn? 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 a new era of US protectionism makes former business models uneconomic? Where will business need to move and scale back operations to survive?
To offer the expertise 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, 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
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
If applicable, highlight which themes / sessions are in-person.
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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