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Globalisation: Opportunity or Risk?

Global value chains offer great opportunities to optimise products, pricing, transport, communication and data processing. The disadvantages of this system are particularly evident in times of extensive restrictions on international mobility. Companies can suffer from supply bottlenecks and production could potentially come to a complete standstill. Entire businesses face massive restrictions. How can we deal with these challenges? Can extreme situations force us to change our way of doing business? Should the thinking of management change? Will other priorities become the focus? Should we perhaps define sustainability in different ways? Is this an opportunity to consider ethical perspectives in capitalism? The following personalities/speakers examine these above raised questions:

Prof. Dr. Niall Ferguson

Professor of Political and Financial History at Harvard University and Bestselling Author is one of the world's leading historians of the global economy. He is a regular contributor to television and radio on both sides of the Atlantic and a prolific commentator on contemporary politics and economics. He uses his detailed research into economic and political developments and analyses current trends and shows businesses how useful lessons can be learned from previous events.

Dr. Dambisa Moyo

has an established international reputation as a thought leader on the political and macroeconomic landscape across developing countries, in particular the BRICs and the frontier economies in Africa, Asia and South America.

Prof. Dr. Joseph Stiglitz

Nobel Prize Winner for Economics, best selling author and most cited economist in the world. Since pioneering a new branch of economics ‘The Economics of Information’, he has continued to offer tools for policy analysts. He explores how markets are influenced and the effects of various circumstances on their success. Concluding with views on how performance can be improved. With humour he delivers the most informative of messages that convey the global economic context with ease.

Prof. Dr. Hans-Werner Sinn

Prof. Hans-Werner Sinn is one of the most influential economists of Germany and one of the leading European economists of his generation.

Prof. Dr. h.c. Wolfgang Ischinger

Chairman of the Munich Security Conference and Global Head of Government Relations, Allianz SE, Munich. From 1998 to 2000, he served as Deputy Foreign Minister. From 2006 to 2008, he was the Federal Republic of Germany's ambassador to the UK, and before that the German ambassador to the US for almost five years. In 2007, he represented the European Union in the troika negotiations on the future of Kosovo. He is also Chairman of the Ambassadors Advisory Board of the Executive Council on Diplomacy in Washington, D.C.