UK-China Business Forum

China is the second largest global economy and the UK’s third largest trading partner. Many UK businesses have found huge success in the China market. But the global economic slowdown, the covid pandemic, and geo-political tensions have all had an impact on the environment for international business there. 

The Forum's senior speakers from business, academia and government will discuss the prospects for trade with China supporting post-pandemic economic growth, revitalising UK exports, and stimulating regional investment opportunities. 

Indeed, China and the UK face many of the same challenges: rebuilding economic growth while making the transition to Net Zero, dealing with technological change, and addressing growing disparities in regional economic development.

Business links and trade and investment have a key role to play in tackling these challenges, though the investment, technology and expertise they mobilise: helping to accelerate the transition to a greener economy, catalyse innovation, and tackle regional inequalities. 

Sessions include; 

Tech for Global Good: UK-China Collaboration in Science and Technology

• David Roth, Chairman BAV, CEO The Store WPP (moderator)
• Dr Michael Spence, President & Provost, UCL
• Prof Fu Xiaolan, Professor of Technology and International Development, Oxford University
• Ling Ge, Managing Director & EU Chief Rep, Tencent London
• Mr Christian Lang, Managing Director, Oxford Instruments NanoAnalysis

Further details of the Forum can be found here. 

techUK members can also reach out to the team below for a booking discount. 

Sabina Ciofu

Associate Director – International, techUK

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Sabina Ciofu

Associate Director – International, techUK

Sabina Ciofu is Associate Director – International, running the International Policy and Trade Programme at techUK.

Based in Brussels, she leads our EU policy and engagement. She is also our lead on international trade policy, with a focus on digital trade chapter in FTAs, regulatory cooperation as well as broader engagement with the G7, G20, WTO and OECD.

As a transatlanticist at heart, Sabina is a GMF Marshall Memorial fellow and issue-lead on the EU-US Trade and Technology Council, within DigitalEurope.

Previously, she worked as Policy Advisor to a Member of the European Parliament for almost a decade, where she specialised in tech regulation, international trade and EU-US relations.

Sabina loves building communities and bringing people together. She is the founder of the Gentlewomen’s Club and co-organiser of the Young Professionals in Digital Policy. Previously, as a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers Community, she led several youth civic engagement and gender equality projects.

She sits on the Advisory Board of the University College London European Institute, Café Transatlantique, a network of women in transatlantic technology policy and The Nine, Brussels’ first members-only club designed for women.

Sabina holds an MA in War Studies from King’s College London and a BA in Classics from the University of Cambridge.

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