Reinventing the Places Left Behind by Globalization

07 October 2020 | Issue 26 | Tiger Hill Capital

Welcome to this week’s edition of Powering Prosperity Weekly.

This weekly newsletter looks at issues relating to the Global Economic Transition that will play out over the coming 20-30 years (see my April 13 introductory article on LinkedIn for additional context).

This week we feature a lively panel discussion on the future of globalization, including exploring the impact of the so-called “de-coupling” of the US and China’s economies, and what we can do to reinvigorate the places left behind by globalization. Covid-19 is a great accelerator and disruptor in that it has hastened trends like inequality, rural-urban divides, US-China strategic competition, and challenged all economies to shift to digital infrastructure at lighting speed. The discussion looks at the implications of these trends and what we can do to thrive in the face of them.

The panel discussion was hosted by The Washington Times and was moderated by Richard Crespin, CEO of CollaborateUp, a consulting firm that facilitates coordination between private and government players. Along with myself it included the following speakers:

• Ambassador Mark Green, a former head of the U.S. Agency for International Development and now Executive Director of the McCain Institute at Arizona State University
• Dr. Richard L. Wright, Director of Sustainable Behavior at multinational consumer goods giant Unilever 
• Daniel Runde, Senior Vice President at the Center for Strategic & International Studies, who heads the think tank’s Project on Prosperity
• Nilmini Rubin, Co-founder of Fix the System and a former senior House Foreign Affairs Committee adviser

To watch the full panel discussion, click here. You can also read a write up of the discussion here.