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Geopolitics Series: Navigating America’s New Direction

Your business playbook for a shifting political landscape

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Online program

Geopolitics Series: Navigating America’s New Direction

Your business playbook for a shifting political landscape

Apply now

Location

Online (liVe virtual)

Length

4 sessions of 3 hours (9:00am-12:00pm CET) over 8 months

Fee

CHF 2,950
CHF 2,500 for alumni

Next program starts

20 March 2025

Empower your business to thrive in a changing global landscape

As President Trump begins his term in office, sweeping executive orders and long-term policy initiatives are set to redefine the global business landscape. With the new administration in place, businesses and global markets are bracing for transformative changes aimed at reshaping domestic and international priorities.

IMD’s online Geopolitics Series: Navigating America’s New Direction program is a unique, four-part series designed to help you examine and respond to these transformative shifts.

Led by IMD’s expert faculty, this program provides a deep dive into four pivotal areas: trade policy, energy transitions, digital regulation, and tax reform. Through interactive sessions, expert-designed diagnostic tools, and real-time strategy development, you’ll learn to navigate uncertainty with confidence, turn disruption into advantage, and stay ahead of the curve.

Understand the shifting landscape

Gain a comprehensive, actionable understanding of emerging policy changes, and how they will impact global business operations.

Diagnose your business’s exposure

Use our expert-designed diagnostic tools to map your organization’s exposure to emerging legislative and regulatory changes.

Navigate policy shifts with precision

Learn how to respond, and craft tailored strategies to ensure compliance, mitigate risks and strengthen your position.

Transform uncertainty into strategic advantage

Learn how to identify new growth opportunities and develop innovative market and non-market strategies that turn disruption into competitive advantage.

Who should attend?

This program is for senior executives, corporate strategists, functional business heads, finance professionals and risk managers looking to deepen their knowledge of the geoeconomic environment and secure their competitive edge in a rapidly changing landscape.

Typical participant profiles include: Group Chief Executive Officer, Executive Board Member, Strategy and Transformation Officer, Director of Corporate Communications, Global Head International Trade Policy, Group Head of Energy Transition, Business Operations Director, Head of Alliances and International Business, Lead Global Strategic Intelligence.

Not sure if this program is the right fit for you? Our program advisors would be happy to advise you.

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Sessions at a glance

Date: 20 March 2025, 09:00-12:00 CET (liVe virtual, online)

International businesses have invested billions in global supply chains, with many setting up production abroad to benefit from local conditions. However, President Trump’s plans to raise taxes on imports could disrupt these arrangements. Canada, China, and Mexico are expected to be the first affected, but redirected goods may impact European and emerging markets as well.

In this session, we will cut through the noise to help participants assess risks, identify opportunities, and plan responses to President Trump’s trade policies. Insights will draw from the US-China trade war and Simon Evenett’s extensive trade briefings, with context provided by the Global Trade Alert’s granular policy tracking.

Date: 27 May 2025, 09:00-12:00 CEST (liVe virtual, online)

President Trump’s criticism of Biden’s landmark clean energy subsidies (the so-called Inflation Reduction Act) casts doubt on their future – and on the viability of key investments by US and foreign firms. Adding to the uncertainty, his advisers suggest he may favor replacing subsidies with a carbon import tax, a shift that could disrupt supply chains across and beyond the clean energy sector. Reports already suggest firms are delaying investments amid the uncertainty.

This session will equip participants to navigate policy shifts with confidence, separating signals from noise and identifying actionable insights to address the challenges and opportunities ahead.

Date: 25 September 2025, 09:00-12:00 CEST (liVe virtual, online)

President Trump has pledged to scrap Biden’s Executive Order on nascent AI regulation, but his broader approach to digital sector regulation remains unclear. Notably, he has defended US digital giants against foreign sales taxes, a stance that could spark international tensions and disrupt the industry.

This session will evaluate the prospects for regulation and deregulation across the digital economy, and provide actionable insights for those in e-commerce, digital services, and advanced technology sectors.

Date: 19 November 2025, 09:00-12:00 CET (liVe virtual, online)

If Congress doesn’t act next year, President Trump’s 2017 tax cuts will expire. However, with a Republican-controlled Senate and House, it’s unlikely he would allow that to happen. Major tax legislation, though, often takes time and is typically finalized late in the year.

This session will examine how tax reforms could affect investment incentives, US stock listings, and profit repatriation – key areas shaped by the 2017 tax cuts. Participants will gain actionable insights into the most impactful changes and how to navigate this shifting fiscal landscape.

As General (later President) Eisenhower said plans are useless but planning is essential. We enter a period of profound uncertainty and IMD experts stand ready to support senior decision-makers sort the signal from the noise and draw out the implications for business.

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Simon Evenett Professor of Geopolitics and Strategy

Program information session

Join us on 27 February 2025

Learn how this program addresses geopolitics challenges impacting business and economies worldwide. Get all your questions answered by our Program Advisors at 12:00 (CET).

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Program information session

Join us on 27 February 2025

Learn how this program addresses geopolitics challenges impacting business and economies worldwide. Get all your questions answered by our Program Advisors at 12:00 (CET).

See all events

Simon J Evenett

Professor of Geopolitics and Strategy at IMD

Simon J Evenett is Professor of Geopolitics and Strategy at IMD. A globally recognized expert on trade, investment, and geopolitical dynamics, he is a leading analyst of the global business environment. For almost 30 years, he has guided board members, senior executives, EMBAs, and MBAs in understanding the significant shifts in the worldwide busin…

Ann-Christin Andersen

CEO at NORWEP

Ann-Christin Andersen is an executive with 35 years’ experience in the energy industry. Most of her operational career has been devoted to the supplier industry in the petroleum sector and her non-executive career has been in the renewable energy sector including the circular economy.

Karl Schmedders

Professor of Finance

Karl Schmedders is Professor of Finance. His research and teaching focuses on sustainability and the economics of climate change. He is therefore able to provide key insights on the transition risk arising from the shift to a greener economy and help companies face up to the challenges of potential asset degradation and increasing carbon prices. …

José Parra Moyano

Professor of Digital Strategy

José Parra Moyano is Professor of Digital Strategy. He focuses on the management and economics of data and privacy and how firms can create sustainable value in the digital economy. An award-winning teacher, he also founded his own successful startup, was appointed to the World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers Community of young people driving c…

Johannes Fritz

CEO of the St. Gallen Endowment

Johannes is the CEO of the St. Gallen Endowment, a Swiss non-profit that champions international openness, collaboration and exchange. He leads the Digital Policy Alert transparency initiative focusing on prominent digital trade issues such as data transfers and AI regulation.

Arturo Bris

Professor of Finance and Director of the IMD World Competitiveness Center

Arturo Bris is Professor of Finance and Director of the IMD World Competitiveness Center. An award-winning teacher and program director, he ranks among the top 100 most-read finance academics worldwide. He is the author of several books, a frequent speaker at international conferences, and appears regularly on international media outlets. His wo…

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Trump Tariff Plans – Gauging Business Exposure

With US President Trump pushing reciprocal tariffs, global trade faces major shifts. Explore key risk factors and their impact on businesses and economies.

By Simon J. Evenett and Fernando Martín Espejo

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Project 2025 – Energy Prices – America's Energy Future

President Trump’s energy policies aim to boost the competitiveness for US businesses; however, they risk ceding market dominance in renewable energy and electric vehicles to China.

By Karl Schmedders and Simon J. Evenett

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