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- Is COVID-19 a crisis for globalisation, or a boon for it? How are supply chains being re-organised?
- How will an increasingly digital global economy impact the economy, as well as the GCC and the needs of its cities?
- What will the new normal be for travel and working-from-home post-COVID-19?
- What are the potential implications for financial, business, logistics, and tourism hubs as the world opens up in 2021?
- How will governments ensure that economies can recover in a post-COVID-19 world?
Speaker

James Pomeroy

Global Economist at HSBC
James is a global economist at HSBC. He joined the Economics team in 2013 having previously worked within the Asset Allocation research team. His global work focuses on longer-term trends and themes, and the impact that they have on the economy and policy decisions today. Demographic data is at the heart of much of his work, but he has also written about urbanisation, the role of technology in the economy and how the world is moving away from cash. Alongside this, he provides economics coverage of Scandinavia. James holds a BSc in Economics from the University of Bath.
HSBC

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