Trade Winds

Trade Winds is a monthly virtual event series hosted by Cecilia Malmström that explores the future of global commerce in the era of the COVID-19 pandemic, including ways that international cooperation on trade can accelerate the recovery. Features episodes with special guest host Anabel González.

Recent Content

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Subsidies are on the rise. Are they a necessary evil?

Cecilia Malmström (PIIE), Chad P. Bown (PIIE), Simon Evenett (University of St. Gallen), Ignacio Garcia Bercero (Directorate General for Trade in the European Commission) and Julia Ya Qin (Wayne State University)

January 19, 2022
Past Event

Delayed WTO ministerial could give negotiators much needed time

Cecilia Malmström (PIIE), Uri Dadush (Bruegel; Policy Center for the New South) and Anabel González (WTO; PIIE [on leave for public service])

December 15, 2021
Past Event

What happened at COP26 and how can trade help save the climate?

Cecilia Malmström (PIIE), Carolyn Fischer (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; University of Ottawa) and Jennifer A. Haverkamp (Michigan Law; University of Michigan Graham Sustainability Institute)

November 17, 2021
Past Event

What’s happening with the Belt and Road Initiative?

Cecilia Malmström (PIIE), Jennifer A. Hillman (Council on Foreign Relations; Georgetown University) and Bruno Maçães (Hudson Institute; Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies)

October 20, 2021
Past Event

The future of global shipping

Cecilia Malmström (PIIE), Simon Bergulf (A.P. Moller-Maersk) and Woan Foong Wong (University of Oregon)

September 15, 2021
Past Event

The African free trade area: Eight months in

Cecilia Malmström (PIIE), Petina Gappah (African Continental Free Trade Area) and Sherman Robinson (PIIE)

August 18, 2021
Past Event

How trade can support post-pandemic recovery: A conversation with the IMF’s Kristalina Georgieva

Cecilia Malmström (PIIE) and Kristalina Georgieva (International Monetary Fund)

July 21, 2021
Past Event

Poor countries need trade to recover from the pandemic. How can global cooperation help?

Anabel González (PIIE), Mari Elka Pangestu (World Bank) and Carlos Primo Braga (Fundacao Dom Cabral, Brazil)

May 20, 2021
Past Event

How to make progress on digital trade negotiations?

Anabel González (PIIE), Simon Evenett (University of St. Gallen; Global Trade Alert), John Denton (International Chamber of Commerce), Deborah Elms (Asian Trade Centre, Singapore) and Daniel M. Price (Rock Creek Global Advisors)

May 5, 2021
Past Event

Can global trade cooperation be revived in 2021?

Anabel González (PIIE), Cecilia Malmström (University of Gothenburg School of Economics; Former European Commissioner for Trade) and Adam S. Posen (PIIE)

April 21, 2021