The New Global Economic and Political Landscape: Opportunities and Challenges

John Micklethwait

6:30pm, Thursday 19 June
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As societies and economies have become more integrated over the last few decades, there have been many debates over the positive aspects of globalisation verses the concerns over increases in equality and environmental degradation. John Micklethwait is Editor-in-Chief of The Economist - one of the widest-read publications on international politics, and business news and opinion. He is in a unique position to comment on the impact of globalisation, and is a leading proponent of globalisation’s positive impact and potential. He will examine the pressing issues facing the global economic landscape – including the rise of the Asia Pacific – the world’s reaction to these shifts, and their effect on the balance of the global superpowers including China, the European Union, Russia and the United States.

Micklethwait will also be in conversation with Bruce McKern, Professor of International Business at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, and Visiting Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution.

John Micklethwait is Editor-in-Chief of The Economist. Before becoming Editor-in-Chief, Micklehwait edited the US section of the newspaper, and ran the New York Bureau for two years. He has covered business and politics from the United States, Latin America, Continental Europe, Southern Africa and most of Asia. He is a frequent broadcaster and has appeared on CNN, ABC News, BBC and NPR. With his coauthor, Adrian Wooldridge, also an Economist journalist, he delivers an illuminating tour of the global economy and an optimistic assessment of its real and potential impact of globalisation in his 2000 book A Future Perfect: The Challenge and Hidden Promise of Globalisation. He is coauthor of two books on business – The Witch Doctors on management, and The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea. His most recent book is The Right Nation: Conservative Power in America, a profile of the radical conservative movement in America ­– the forces that have shaped it, the constituencies it represents, and the power that it wields in the world today.

Co-presented with The Economist