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The Middle East is more connected & innovative than ever – regardless of geopolitical tensions.
My visit this week to Doha, Dubai, & Amman has indicated ICC’s central view in 2026: political fragmentation shouldn’t be confused with economic disconnection.
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In an interview with the Government of Dubai Media Office during a visit to Dubai Chambers, John Denton, Secretary General of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), praises the level of innovation and enterprise embedded in the business community in Dubai and the UAE, and affirms ICC’s commitment to drawing on their experiences and sharing them with the world.
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Don’t confuse political fragmentation for commercial disconnection.
That was my message to a vibrant Bangkok during the IMF/World Bank annual meetings last week. Despite the turbulence, business continues to find ways to connect.
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One of the highlights of the week: meeting @iccwbo's interns and hearing their perspectives on the future of business, sustainability, and international cooperation.
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The greatest risk is not that we fail to digitise trade, but that we digitise badly.
This was a recurring theme during my visit to Singapore this week, one of the world's great trading centres.
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The next generation of multilateralism will face one clear imperative: generate results.
This was a running theme in my engagements with ministers, UN officials, and business leaders during the 81st UNGA in New York last week.
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"The transition won't work unless we make it accessible to SMEs," Secretary General,@iccwbo, @ICCSecGen, on ensuring that global trade finance, which is a critical source of financing for SMEs, is not only available, but sustainable.
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"We're actually seeing a fair bid of investment in the energy transition coming from advanced economies into advanced economies, but we're not seeing a lot flowing into emerging economies."
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Amazing to be back in Guatemala after far too long. This is a country that holds a special place for me, not least because members of my family live here.
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Thanks to @iccwbo for partnering with the WTO for this year’s #WTOPublicForum!
Join @ICCSecGen John Denton from 15-17 September to explore how services trade is powering the future.
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This week marked an important step towards the establishment of ICC Palestine.
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The Strait of Hormuz is a vital corridor not only for global energy supplies, but also for fertilisers and the agricultural inputs that underpin food security and economic stability worldwide.
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India's energy, ambition and pace of transformation are impossible to ignore.
Over the past two days in New Delhi, I had the privilege of visiting one of the world's most dynamic economies at a particularly important moment for @iccwbo.
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Resilience cannot be measured in energy reserves alone - it depends on the strength of the farms, businesses and communities beneath them.
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Small and medium businesses are often called the backbone of economies. This week, across New York and Washington, D.C., that idea ran through every conversation I had with the UN system, the World Bank Group, and the U.S. government.
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Over the last three days at the Hamburg Sustainability Conference, my message was clear: sustainable development will not be delivered by governments and multilateral institutions alone. It will be delivered by and with business.
It is time to move beyond political ambition and focus on the economic narrative.
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From Hong Kong to Tokyo, one message came through clearly last week: the future of trade will be shaped by the places and partnerships still prepared to do the practical work of connection.
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Flying out of Beijing, I keep coming back to one thought: in a world that too often reaches for the drawbridge, choosing to connect is not the soft option. It is the hard, practical, necessary one. And it is the work I came here to do.
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This week, we had the pleasure of receiving this wonderful group of students from @sciencespo and @Yale, who have spent the past few months exploring how new digital technologies could help reshape the governance of global value chains.
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