[WEBCAST]: From Optimization to Resilience: Global Supply Chains After Covid-19

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How Governments and Companies Will Organize Their Future Supply Chains

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One of the most transforming effects on the world economy for the past 30 years has been the creation of finely tuned supply chains. In a highly efficient manner, components often cross borders several times before they are assembled and sold to the end customer. «Designed in California, Assembled in China» has become the norm in today’s world. Supply chains were ever more optimized, while companies were able to cut their warehousing costs and free up «dead» capital.

Then SARS-CoV-2 hit. Manufacturing processes around the world ground to a standstill, because they were reliant on parts from Hubei Province in China, or from Lombardy in Northern Italy, or from the Alsace region in France. Western governments realized in shock that they lacked production capabilities for protective hospital equipment and that most of the base materials for the production of pharmaceuticals were sourced from China. Optimized supply chains turned out to be highly vulnerable to an exogenous shock like the Covid-19 pandemic.

Supply chains of the future will have to change. But how? Will there be a re-shoring, a burst of deglobalization and re-nationalization of production? Or will companies choose a strategy of redundant supply chains on different continents? To answer these and other questions, join the webcast with Agatha Kratz, Associate Director at Rhodium Group, in conversation with Mark Dittli, Editor of The Market NZZ.

 

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Agatha Kratz

Agatha Kratz is an Associate Director at Rhodium Group. Agatha coordinates Rhodium Group’s European activities and leads research on European Union-China relations and China’s commercial diplomacy. She contributes to Rhodium work on China’s global investment, industrial policy and technology aspirations. Agatha is a non-resident Adjunct Fellow of the Reconnecting Asia Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies under the Simon Chair in Political Economy.

She holds a Ph.D. from King’s College London, on China’s railway diplomacy. Her previous positions included Associate Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations and Editor-in-Chief of its quarterly journal China Analysis, Assistant Editor for China Economic Quarterly, and Junior Fellow at Asia Centre in Paris. Agatha has a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and a Masters in Finance from SciencesPo Paris, as well as a Masters in Public Administration from the London School of Economics and Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs.

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Mark Dittli

Mark Dittli is a journalist and author in Zurich, specializing in financial markets and global economics. He is Co-Founder and Editor of The Market NZZ (themarket.ch), a new financial media platform that was launched in April 2019 in a joint venture with Neue Zürcher Zeitung. The Market NZZ publishes in-depth analytical and background articles as well as interviews on companies, global industry trends and macroeconomic issues.

From 2012 to 2017, Mark was the Editor-in-chief of Finanz und Wirtschaft. Prior to that, he was the editor of the international section of Finanz und Wirtschaft and has spent five years as the U.S. correspondent of the paper in New York, covering economic and monetary policy as well as company issues. Mark has studied Business Administration in Zurich, journalism in New York and is a CFA charter holder. He is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in history at the University of Zurich.

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Tue 14 Jul 2020
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20200714T120000 20200714T124500 Europe/Zurich Asia Society: [WEBCAST]: From Optimization to Resilience: Global Supply Chains After Covid-19 Will there be a re-shoring, a burst of deglobalization and re-nationalization of production? Join the webcast with The Rhodium Group’s Agatha Kratz and The Market NZZ’s Mark Dittli.

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