Featured Trade In a Changing World

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Trade is being reshaped by a more uncertain global economy, as businesses and governments rethink how goods, capital and technology move across borders. From the Middle East to other major trading hubs, maintaining global connectivity increasingly depends on building systems that can absorb disruption without retreating from openness.

What will it take to keep trade open, adaptable and resilient as the rules and routes of the global economy continue to shift?

This session was recorded at the Annual Meeting of Global Future Leaders in Dubai in October 2026.

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