Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles
As keynote speaker on Day One of the Global Precious Metals Conference in Miami, Florida, Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles is renowned for his knowledge and experience of geopolitics, as a diplomat and in business, as well as for his straight-talking style.
Sherard is a Senior Adviser at HSBC Holdings. He retired from full-time employment with the firm on 31 December 2023 after ten years – initially as Senior Adviser to the Group Chairman and Group Chief Executive, and for the past eight years as Head of the Group’s Public and Government Affairs functions. He chaired HSBC’s bank in Oman and sat on the board of HSBC Egypt.
Sherard is Chair of the China-Britain Business Council, and previously chaired the Saudi British Joint Business Council, the Saudi-British Society and the Omani British Business Council.
Before HSBC, Sherard worked for two and a half years as International Business Development Director at BAE Systems. Previously, he spent more than 30 years in the British Diplomatic Service, which he joined straight from obtaining a first-class degree in Classics at Oxford. He served in Cairo, Washington and Paris. He was also Principal Private Secretary to the UK Foreign Secretary, the late Robin Cook, and was Head of the Foreign Office Hong Kong Department from 1994 up to the handover to China in 1997. His final diplomatic jobs were as Ambassador to Israel (2001–2003), Ambassador to Saudi Arabia (2003–2007), Ambassador to Afghanistan (2007-2009), and the UK Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan (2009–2010).
Sherard is the author of two much praised books about his diplomatic experiences: Cables from Kabul and Ever the Diplomat. He speaks French and Arabic, some
Hebrew and rudimentary Pashtu.
Delegates at this year’s Conference can expect an insightful and edifying keynote, informed by Sherard’s decades of experience on the world’s business and
political stages.
Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles
Gideon Rose
Gideon Rose is an adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). He was editor of Foreign Affairs from 2010 to 2021, prior to which he was managing editor from 2000 to 2010. He has also served as associate director for Near East and South Asian affairs on the staff of the National Security Council and deputy director of national security studies at CFR. Gideon is an adjunct professor of at Columbia University, where he teaches international relations and American foreign policy.
Gideon is the author of How Wars End: Why We Always Fight the Last Battle (Simon & Schuster, October 2010), which explores presidential decision-making in the final stages of conflicts from World War I to Iraq and Afghanistan. He found that policymakers repeatedly failed to plan seriously for predictable problems and stumbled into trouble as a result.
In a recent article published by nationalinterest.org, Gideon states that with rising isolationism and protectionism and revisionist powers challenging a Western-dominated international order, many hear echoes of the 1930s. How has this sentiment impacted the macroeconomic outlook, and how might the results of the American presidential election in November send the world in one of two dramatically different directions?
Gideon’s keynote on Day One of the Global Precious Metals Conference is set to furnish delegates with his critical geopolitical analysis of the issues shaping today’s global agenda, including (de)globalisation trends and factors which could most significantly impact gold – and is one not to be missed.
Gideon Rose
Robert Armstrong
Robert Armstrong is the US financial commentator for the Financial Times (FT). He writes the FT’s daily markets and finance newsletter, Unhedged, where he dissects the most important market trends and discusses how market players respond to them.
He has also served the FT as a banking reporter, editor of the Lex column, and chief editorial writer. Before becoming a journalist, he was an analyst at a hedge fund. He has a PhD in philosophy from Columbia University.
Robert has recently opined on what elections in 2024 mean for the market, American exceptionalism, AI stocks and the rise of the AI bubble, and how fiscal deficits and capital flows may be the key to the long bull market. But what does Robert see as key drivers for the market for the rest of 2024 and beyond?
Don’t miss his keynote during Session 5 on Day Two, at which delegates will benefit from Robert’s expert insight on the US macroeconomic perspective, the US Presidential election expectations, and the broad health of the global economy – as well as many macro and political insights that may offer a road map for gold.
Robert Armstrong
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Register now for LBMA/LPPM Global Precious Metals Conference, which takes please Sunday, 13 - Tuesday 15 October 2024 at The Diplomat in Miami, Florida, USA.
Join us for an excellent programme which includes market discussions, panel sessions and keynote speakers, covering the latest perspectives on macroeconomic themes, the investment outlook for precious metals, PGMs, mining challenges and opportunities and China as a driver of gold prices, plus lots more. Further details of what you can expect at our Global Precious Metals Conference can be found on our microsite.
