Rebecca is an engaging speaker who has worked with diverse events and groups over many years. Her style is straightforward, and often light-hearted, but delivers complex messages in clear and easy to understand formats for her audience. She is as happy with moderating small workshops and running wargaming sessions as she is with a large C-Suite audience and a keynote!
Rebecca has given keynote addresses to the Annual Conferences of all the major International Trade membership associations: ITFA, ICC UK , PIMFA, and BAFT as well as at trade media events organised by GTR and TXF. She regularly gives keynotes to private audiences at client or corporate events and is equally comfortable with speaking to very large audiences and to smaller round tables. She enjoys Q&A sessions, and has designed keynotes to last anything from ten minutes to an hour.
Rebecca's experience in media makes her an excellent panel moderator or event host, including at large scale industry events like SIBOS on Trade Wars and New Technologies or smaller scale roundtables like the GTR-Barclays political risk and ESG round tables. She participates as a panel member online and in physical events globally and is chatty and engaging both as a participant and a moderator. She loves to talk about ESG, Economics and Geopolitics, and Trade and Trade Finance.
Rebecca's session on the 25th covers the role of trade finance in achieving sustainable trade. It looks at the key issues and risks that banks face when introducing ESG strategies, from regulation through to understanding ESG exposure across complex supply chains. It will look at how sustainability considerations have changed during the Russia-Ukraine crisis moving from the “sustainably produced, sustainably transported and used for sustainable purposes” to a more nuanced definition of sustainability that may include security and defence as well. To this end, the ESG policies of nations is increasingly focused on supply chain resilience and minimising exposure to strategic, competitive or military threats in a world where export controls and sanctions are defining the way in which we trade. The role of banks is critical in complying with a rapidly shifting, if not decoupling, global landscape. The session will discuss the consequences for day-to-day trade finance practitioners.
Rebecca will participate in an online panel of thought leaders from the UK, Germany and France to discuss the politicisation of ESG and the type of leadership now required from politicians to make sure that any policies and regulations that are implemented genuinely can make a difference.
Rebecca's high media profile includes frequent appearances on BBC Television and Radio including The Context, Outside Source, World Business Report, World News and BBC News 24. She has also appeared on Radio 5 Live's Wake Up to Money, Drive Time, and appeared with Nicky Campbell Adrian Chiles Naga Muncetty and Nihal Arthurayake. She has appeared on Radio 4's Today Programme, and The Real Story on the World Service. In addition she appears regularly on Sky News, The Ian King Show, and CNBC and Times Radio. She is frequently cited in the Broadsheet media.
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