Dr. Wallace S. Cheng is a leading expert in trade, the digital economy, and sustainability. He currently holds the position of Head of Impact, Innovation, and Development at Globethics, a globally renowned Swiss Foundation committed to advancing responsible leadership. Prior to assuming this role, he held esteemed positions within organizations such as the United Nations World Food Programme, the German Institute of Development and Sustainability, the International Center for Trade and Sustainable Development, and the Shanghai Development Research Center.
In addition to his impressive career, Wallace is recognized as an Asia Society 21 Young Leader and a Yale University World Fellow. He also serves as an Agenda Contributor at the World Economic Forum since 2015 and is a highly respected faculty member at the United Nations Institute of Training and Research. With his educational foundation in development economics from Fudan University and the University of Oxford, Dr. Cheng stands out as an accomplished scholar and practitioner.
Whether they’re new best friends or estranged fellows, President Donald Trump and President Xi Jinping have confirmed their bilateral meeting at the November G20 in Buenos Aires, Argentin...
This week, trade and investment ministers from the G20 will gather at Mar del Plata in Argentina for the first time since the tariff dispute started in the spring of 2018.
Last week, at the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Public Forum, I put this question to an audience: “Are you optimistic that WTO 11th Ministerial Conference (MC11) will be a success?”
One word was conspicuous by its absence in the communiques on trade that came out of three meetings this year of the world's finance chiefs.
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Karl Marx dijo una vez: “Los filósofos se han limitado, cada uno a su manera, a interpretar el mundo. Pero lo que necesitamos no es interpretarlo, sino cambiarlo.” Ahora que el mundo cues...
“Philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it,” or so Karl Marx once wrote. As trade liberalization and globalization more broadly ar...
Are you comfortable knowing that your every online move is under 24/7 scrutiny from broadband providers or 4G mobile networks?
This weekend, Hangzhou, a Chinese city famous for the Alibaba headquarters, kites and silk products, will host the latest G20 Summit.
It’s just six months until the 15th anniversary of China’s accession to the World Trade Organization, and the second-largest economy believed this would be the time when it would automati...
