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How Can We Revitalize America’s Global Competitiveness?

Posted on October 11, 2015 by Kati Suominen

Today I had the honor to speak on a panel “Power Play: How Can We Revitalize America’s Global Competitiveness?” at the Pacific Council’s members’ weekend. It was a terrific debate – below are my opening remarks and some conclusions: U.S. … Continue reading →

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New thought leadership on digital trade: reforming trade policies, customs regulations, and development solutions for the global digital economy

Posted on May 31, 2015 by Kati Suominen

Disruptive digital technologies — the cloud and digitization, ecommerce, 3D printing, big data, holograms, Internet of Everything, peer-to-peer lending, virtual currencies, and so on — are revolutionizing the economics of global trade and production. They are empowering corporations to dramatically … Continue reading →

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How Digital Protectionism Threatens to Derail 21st Century Businesses

Posted on December 3, 2014 by Kati Suominen

The below piece appeared in Marsh & MacLennan’s BRINK on 3 December 2014: http://www.brinknews.com/how-digital-protectionism-threatens-to-derail-21st-century-businesses/ A decade ago, Thomas Friedman’s The World is Flat popularized globalization as a process where Apple, Dell, IBM, and other giant corporations offshored manufacturing to low-cost … Continue reading →

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Digitization and the Future of Jobs: Rise of the Re-Invention Economy

Posted on November 19, 2014 by Kati Suominen

Today I published a piece in GE’s Ideas Lab on why automation and artificial intelligence will create more jobs than they will destroy: http://www.ideaslaboratory.com/post/102950967429/rise-of-the-re-invention-economy As automation and computerization expand, anxiety about jobs is at a fever pitch. Some say computers … Continue reading →

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My Interview about TradeUp on About.com – Small is Big in the International Economy

Posted on June 19, 2014 by Kati Suominen

From: http://importexport.about.com/od/Financing/fl/Does-Size-Matter-For-Global-Scale.htm Founder and CEO of Nextrade Group LLC, Kati Suominen, has deep expertise in international trade (importing and exporting), economics and finance. In the interview below we discuss her latest venture, TradeUp LLC, why she started it, how companies … Continue reading →

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Five World Trade Game-Changers for 2014

Posted on January 9, 2014 by Kati Suominen

From Ideas Lab, 9 January 2014 http://www.ideaslaboratory.com/2014/01/09/five-world-trade-game-changers-for-2014/ Small will be big in the global digital economy – and policymakers must catch up The WTO’s trade facilitation deal reached in Bali in early December adds to the past three decades’ dramatic … Continue reading →

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