Dubai: The 2014 edition of the annual Global Trade Development Week — EMEA will be held from October 27 to 29.
Hosted by the UAE Ministry of Economy, the trade forum will host more than 600 trade leaders from more than 90 nations and 120 speakers. The summit will be held in partnership with Dubai Customs.
It will bring together a host of prominent world organisations’ leaders, representing the EU Commission, WTO, Interpol, the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS), and the International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC).
The list of speakers comprises of representatives’ form the world’s largest corporations, such as IBM, Huawei, Nokia and Nestle, and will be attended by delegations from industrial and emerging markets and economies.
The panel sessions, held as part of the summit, will shed light on the perspective of private and public sectors towards the liberalisation of global trade, and its role in eliminating trading barriers, increasing trade and investment transparency. It will also explore the role of technology in supporting trade facilitation and streamlining goods flow between borders, besides addressing the need for risk management programmes limiting risk factors within international supply chains.
