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...

JUNE 14TH 2015

Turin The ICC World Chambers Congress provided a great opportunity to hear from many business associations from around the world their concerns first hand about their future relevancy and in particular how our Trust Initiative could play a significant role in the...

JUNE 6th 2015

Istanbul October The OECD G20 Investment Forum had the Secretary General admitting they and the business community got quite a bit wrong and reform fatigue had set in and that with a new Sheriff ( the UNITED SDGs) in town there was a universal challenge to lift the...