Bloomberg Global Business Forum 2017 | Bloomberg Philanthropies | 20 September 2017 | New York City

After a year of profound political shocks to the post-World War II economic order, in which globalization itself has been under siege, how do business leaders chart a clear path forward? How can leaders from business and government create a more transparent, equitable and sustainable framework for the global economy? And, crucially, how can political leaders, working closely with global CEOs and other business leaders, construct a new multilateral economic order to solve challenges that led to the unraveling of so many twentieth-century assumptions and institutions?

These critical questions and others inform the agenda of the Bloomberg Global Business Forum, an unprecedented convening of many of the most significant world leaders and international CEOs ever assembled in a single day. Building on the success of Bloomberg’s historic 2014 and 2016 U.S.-Africa Business Forums, this new conference expands the discussion to a global level with leadership from every continent.

At the Bloomberg Global Business Forum, hosted during UN General Assembly week in New York, this community will work together, through on-the-record mainstage discussions and private bilateral and multilateral meetings, to address the most pressing economic issues facing us today: how to create sustained job and economic growth while encouraging technological innovations; the need for new international trade and immigration policies; how cities and nations must redouble their effort to confront the urgent crisis of climate change; and how to drive economic opportunity and prosperity while reducing inequality in the twenty-first century and beyond.

2017 SPEAKERS

Nana Akufo-Addo
Republic of Ghana
President

Ajay Banga
Mastercard
President & CEO

Arundhati Bhattacharya
State Bank of India
Chairman

Lloyd Blankfein
Goldman Sachs
Chairman & CEO

Michael Bloomberg
Bloomberg L.P and Bloomberg Philanthropies
Founder; and three-term Mayor of New York City

Ian Bremmer
Eurasia Group
President and Founder

The Honorable William J. Clinton
42nd President of the United States

Aiko Dangote
Dangote Industries Limited
President and CEO

John Elkann
EXOR
Chairman and CEO

Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Republic of Turkey
President

Laurence Fink
BlackRock
Chairman and CEO

Bill GATES
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Co-Founder

H.E Dr. Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber
UAE Minister of State and ADNOC Group CEO

Jim Kim
World Bank Group
12th President

Isabelle Kocher
Engie
Global CEO

Francine Lacqua
Bloomberg Television
Anchor

Christine Lagarde
International Monetary Fund
Managing Director

Jean Liu
Didi Chuxing
President

Jack Ma
Alibaba Group
Founder and Executive Chairman

Anand G. Mahindra
Mahindra Group
Chairman

Strive Masiyiwa
Econet
Founder and Executive Chairman

John Micklethwait
Bloomberg
Editor-in-Chief

Federica Mogherini
Vice President of the EU Commission
High Representative of the EU for Foreign

Mike Mullen
Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

Megan Murphy
Bloomberg Busineeweek
Editor

Arif Naqvi
The Abraaj Group
Founder and Group Chief Executive

Indra K. Nooyi
PepsiCo
Chairman and CEO

Paul Polman
Unilever
CEO

David Rubenstein
The Carlyle Group
Co-Founder and Co-CEO

Mark Rutte
Kingdom of the Netherlands
Prime Minister

Vijay Sharma
Paytm
Founder and CEO

Paolo Gentiloni Silveri
Italian Republic
Prime Minister

Masayoshi
Softbank Group Corp
Chairman and CEO

Frans Timmermans
European Commission
First Vice President

Justin Trudeau
Canada
Prime Minister

Zhang Xiaoqiang
China Center for International Economic Exchanges
Executive Vice Chairman, CEO of the Executive office and legal

• Hyundai
• MasterCard
• Uptake