April 8, 2016

Digitisation This is a big issue and seems to get a lot of mentions on the international calendar of events so I’m pleased to learn that the OECD will host a ministerial conference in CancunMexico in June this year. Our colleague and advisor John Dryden had while...

March 14, 2016

South Sudan a crisis when there was hope Only a few years back the newest nation in the world South Sudan was expected to develop and thrive due to resources and international support- we had been involved in hosting one of the international events leading up to...

February 24, 2016

Fond memories of Japan My travels to Japan are infrequent these days but this was not the case from the 1980s through until 2009 so I was very interested to find out that Keidanren the powerful Japanese business federation was active in Africa and doing good things....

January 21, 2016

Business Europe at Davos This Brussels based Federation of European business organisations was among many of the international bodies prominent at Davos and producinguseful and constructive commentary on various issues of the global agenda from a euro centric...

December12, 2015

On learning more about the B20 Coalition over the past months I realised there were participants at meetings I attended this year from many of the member federations including the Confederation of British Industry who had a charming young lady I believe originally...

November 20, 2015

Turkey to China Following months of participation in B20 and related events in Istanbul and elsewhere it is evident that there are some good ideas being discussed but unfortunately little or no concrete actions or plans to tackle the major social and economic mis...