This year we went through some of the key ingredients to ensure our economy can continue growing – and grow faster – even amid disruption. We began by looking at some of the immediate and nearer-term implications for growth, including new political cycles in 2024 in the US, Europe and South America; a structural shift in global interest rates; and geopolitical conflict and tensions in Europe, the Middle East and Asia.
We also reflected on the longer-term dynamics that are changing the world: the impact of AI, blockchain and other transformative technologies on our lives; fundamental changes to demographics and immigration; energy security and the transition; as well as other challenges to the international economic order. We examined the proactive and reactive role that banks and financial institutions must play to support growth the world over.
Agustín Carstens
General Manager, Bank for International Settlements
Alejandro Díaz de León
Former Governor, Bank of Mexico
Ana Botín
Executive Chair, Banco Santander
Andreas Dombret
Member, International Advisory Board, Banco Santander
James Harding
Co-Founder and Editor, Tortoise Media
2023: Competing for Growth
2022: Growth in a fragmenting world
2021: Turning Point: Roles and Responsibilities in the post-COVID world
