Global Leaders’ Investment Summit 2021 | United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) | 19 October 2021 | TBA

International production and productive capacity: National strategies and global collaboration
The second 2021 Global Leaders’ Investment Summit will address the challenges arising from new technologies, the new industrial revolution and their impact on international production and productive capacity-building. Their consequences are potentially far-reaching for the configuration of global value chains with important implications for development and growth, including the risk of premature de-industrialization in low-income countries. While the changes that this will bring about in international production create many challenges, they can also provide profound opportunities for development and integration in emerging value chains provided countries are prepared for it in a holistic manner. National adaptation strategies need to work hand in hand with global efforts aimed at harnessing their full development potential, ensuring that no one is left behind.

Issues to be addressed:
• How is international production likely to be configured in 2030 and what challenges and opportunities are likely to arise?
• How can governments, the private sector, and the international community best prepare economies to take advantages of the opportunities for development emanating from the changing international production landscape and to counter the main challenges?
• What can the United Nations contribute to support these efforts?

2021 Speakers

Ms. Rebeca Grynspan
Secretary-General, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

Mr. Børge Brende
President, World Economic Forum (WEF)

Mr. Peter Robinson
President and CEO, United States Council for International Business (USCIB)

Prof. Jeffery D. Sachs
Director, Center for Sustainable Development, Columbia University

Mr. Roberto Marques
Exec. Chairman & Group CEO, Natura & Co, Brazil