Kevin Turner

Global Overview: Will Economic Growth Be Sustained?

Henny Sender, Pierre Beaudoin, Liang Xinjun, Kevin Turner, Mark Weinberger, Andrew Witty

Leaders from Fosun, Bombardier, GSK, Microsoft, and PwC convened to analyze global economic dichotomies, highlighting China's shifting demographics, aerospace sustainability, and the Fourth Industrial Revolution as key growth vectors. The panelists contrasted China's consumption-driven leverage and capital outflows against Western infrastructure financing gaps and declining capital expenditure, while noting record M&A activity as a response to suppressed organic growth. Key takeaways included strategic pivots toward B2F health sectors, decentralized pharmaceutical manufacturing, and a warning that geopolitical protectionism poses a greater long-term productivity threat than the 2008 financial crisis.