Douglas Lippoldt, senior trade economist at HSBC Global Research Economics team.

Global trade corridors and their long-term implications and opportunities will be tackled by Douglas Lippoldt, a senior trade economist at HSBC, during an exclusive HSBC commercial banking business meeting today. Lippoldt will take the audience through the findings from his recently published research Trade Chart Book – The Power of Corridors, as seen from a long-term and sectorial perspective.

HSBC Malta’s head of commercial banking, Michel Cordina, said: “Mr Lippoldt is bringing in-depth insight into the world’s economic state of affairs. HSBC’s global network allows it to capture emerging opportunities from around the world and to bring unrivalled insight to its customers so as to allow more informed decisions.”

Lippoldt joined HSBC in 2014 coming from the OECD in Paris, where he had worked for 22 years in various roles as a senior economist. Prior to that, he served seven years as an international economist with the US Department of Labor in Washington, DC. His central focus has been on international trade issues and he has published extensively on trade topics as well as related aspects of economic development, labour market adjustment, innovation and intellectual property.