"The transition won't work unless we make it accessible to SMEs," Secretary General,@iccwbo, @ICCSecGen, on ensuring that global trade finance, which is a critical source of financing for SMEs, is not only available, but sustainable.
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"We're actually seeing a fair bid of investment in the energy transition coming from advanced economies into advanced economies, but we're not seeing a lot flowing into emerging economies."
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Amazing to be back in Guatemala after far too long. This is a country that holds a special place for me, not least because members of my family live here.
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Thanks to @iccwbo for partnering with the WTO for this year’s #WTOPublicForum!
Join @ICCSecGen John Denton from 15-17 September to explore how services trade is powering the future.
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The Strait of Hormuz is a vital corridor not only for global energy supplies, but also for fertilisers and the agricultural inputs that underpin food security and economic stability worldwide.
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India's energy, ambition and pace of transformation are impossible to ignore.
Over the past two days in New Delhi, I had the privilege of visiting one of the world's most dynamic economies at a particularly important moment for @iccwbo.
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Resilience cannot be measured in energy reserves alone - it depends on the strength of the farms, businesses and communities beneath them.
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Small and medium businesses are often called the backbone of economies. This week, across New York and Washington, D.C., that idea ran through every conversation I had with the UN system, the World Bank Group, and the U.S. government.
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Over the last three days at the Hamburg Sustainability Conference, my message was clear: sustainable development will not be delivered by governments and multilateral institutions alone. It will be delivered by and with business.
From Hong Kong to Tokyo, one message came through clearly last week: the future of trade will be shaped by the places and partnerships still prepared to do the practical work of connection.
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Flying out of Beijing, I keep coming back to one thought: in a world that too often reaches for the drawbridge, choosing to connect is not the soft option. It is the hard, practical, necessary one. And it is the work I came here to do.
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This week, we had the pleasure of receiving this wonderful group of students from @sciencespo and @Yale, who have spent the past few months exploring how new digital technologies could help reshape the governance of global value chains.
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Multilateralism does not lack ambition - but we need to take action to ensure it is effective, and together with @IEuniversity we have built a roadmap to move dialogue to delivery.
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What happens when global fragmentation starts to reshape how business operates?
In our latest Trading Thoughts episode, @ICCSecGen joins Vrinda Tiwari to unpack a shifting global landscape and its impact on multilateral cooperation.
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What does it take to keep multilateralism working in a more fragmented world? That was the focus of my recent conversation with Vrinda Tiwari for the latest episode of Trading Thoughts, a podcast from @iccwbo.
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It was a pleasure to meet with H.E. President Nikos Christodoulides of the Republic of Cyprus.
Our discussion provided an excellent opportunity to engage on the priorities for the current Cyprus Presidency of the Council of the EU 2026.