After leaving the European Union in January 2020, the UK will be setting its own trade policies for the first time since 1973, and would need to explicitly set out the aims of trade and associated foreign investment policies for the first time in four decades.
The ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Economic Diplomacy Commission aims to interrogate the questions surrounding the policy choices made by the UK government. It will specifically focus on foreign economic policy and how such policies will affect both UK society and economy.
The Commission
The Commission includes a number of the country's leading academics and experienced practitioners from a wide range of subjects. Bringing together academics and policymakers is a core strength of ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ IDEAS, and the calibre of Commissioners who have agreed to serve demonstrates the immense interest in this project.
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30 June 2021: Professor Linda Yueh speaks at “The Global Post-Pandemic Context: Challenges and Opportunities for Economic Diplomacy” at the Virtual Forum on Economic Diplomacy in the Global Post Pandemic Environment organised by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Peru.
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17 June 2021: Professor Linda Yueh chairs a panel on "From Economic Diplomacy to Economic Statecraft: A New Mercantilism in an Era of De-Globalisation?” at the virtual forum, , organised by the Brussels School of Governance and ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ IDEAS.
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16 June 2021: Stephen Paduano has written an article in the Financial Times on stress-testing supply chains. This is the third recommendation from the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Economic Diplomacy Commission's Final Report.
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19 May 2021: Professor Linda Yueh gives oral evidence on the to the International Trade Committee inquiry, House of Commons, UK Parliament.
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18 May 2021: Professor Linda Yueh gives oral evidence on to the International Relations and Defence Committee inquiry, House of Lords, UK Parliament.
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5 May 2021: Dr Swati Dhingra, Dr Robert Falkner and Professor Linda Yueh gave a Civil Service Trade Faculty Masterclass on the Commission’s Final Report, which was jointly organised by the Department for International Trade (DIT) and the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO).
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1 March 2021: Professor Linda Yueh has written an article in the Financial Times based on the first recommendation of the Commission’s Final Report. .
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17 February 2021: The Final Report was launched in the U.S. at a joint virtual event with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Professor Linda Yueh and Professor Michael Cox spoke alongside Dame Karen Pierce, British Ambassador to the United States, Robert Zoellick, former President of the World Bank and U.S. Trade Representative, and Rozlyn Engel, non-resident scholar in the Geoeconomics and Strategy Program at Carnegie. The webinar was moderated by Gideon Rachman, Chief Foreign Affairs Commentator for the Financial Times. .
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11 February 2021: Professor Linda Yueh is interviewed by Gideon Rachman on his Financial Times podcast about the Commission’s recommendations, alongside Dr Robin Niblett, Director of Chatham House.
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9 February 2021: The Final Report was launched at a virtual event with Professor Linda Yueh, Professor Michael Cox and Stephen Paduano presenting the Commission’s work. They were joined for reactions from Lord Mark Sedwill, Chair of the G7 Panel on Global Economic Security, former Cabinet Secretary and National Security Adviser, and Dr Adam Marshall, Director-General of the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC). Catch up on the event.
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31 October 2020: Professor Linda Yueh speaks about her work as Chair of the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Economic Diplomacy Commission in The Beverage Report podcast of the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Economics Department.
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27 August 2020: The conduct of economic diplomacy must adapt. Professor Linda Yueh writes about the framework for economic diplomacy in the 21st century in an ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ IDEAS Strategic Update. Click here to read it.
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1 July 2020: Professor Linda Yueh discusses the future of globalisation and the UK’s role alongside the UK Secretary of State for International Trade The Rt Hon Elizabeth Truss MP and economist Dr Gerard Lyons at TheCityUK webinar.
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16 June 2020: Joint ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ IDEAS and Chatham House webinar which marked the mid-point of the Commission’s work. Watch Professors Linda Yueh and Michael Cox discuss with Chatham House’s Creon Butler, moderated by Dr Leslie Vinjamuri, the Commission’s findings so far and what is to come.
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15 May 2020: Linda Yueh writes a blog post for ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳'s British Politics and Policy blog that asks how we can boost productivity and help the economy grow during a period of social distancing. She calls for an urgent need for government and business investment in technology.
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12 May 2020: Does globalisation face an existential threat? Michael Cox, Peter Watkins and Linda Yueh ask this in a . They also discuss this in a podcast, which