The Global Counsel Podcast

Rishi Sunak entered 10 Downing Street yesterday as the UK's third Prime Minister in as many months. On this recording of a GC client briefing call, recorded on October 25th, Lead Political Analyst Joe Armitage is joined by UK Country Director Alex Dawson and Director Lilah Howson-Smith to talk through Sunak's agenda. For live access to these briefing calls, including the ability to ask questions,...

Welcome back to 'The Geopolitics of", our miniseries exploring the geopolitical questions that will define the future of international relations. On today's episode, International Policy Practice Director Jon Garvie is joined by Kay Firth-Butterfield , Head of Artificial Intelligence and a Member of the Executive Committee at the World Economic Forum. Kay is one of the world's foremost experts on...

Welcome back to the Global Month Ahead, Global Counsel's briefing on the events and stories that will define the month to come. In each episode, Global Macro Associate Director Isabelle Trick will hear from different members of the GC team to preview the month's stories before they are in the headlines. This month: What's next for tackling the EU energy crisis? Europe's reliance on Russian gas has...

This week, we are presenting a recording of our in-person event commemorating our new Brussels office. Join Director Robert Etter, CEE Associate Director Anikó Zsebik, EU Practice Director Ana Martínez, and Chairman Peter Mandelson on a spirited tour of the American-European partnership in an era of geopolitical instability. For more insight on the transatlantic relationship, you can view a specia...

This is an episode of Top in Tech, a podcast from the Global Counsel TMT team, covering the latest in the European 'tech-lash'. You can subscribe on  Apple Podcasts ,  Spotify , or wherever you get your podcasts. This week on Top in Tech,  Conan D'Arcy  is joined by Senior Associate Ugonma Nwankwo and Associate Director Megan Stagman to discuss the tech regulatory impact of the...

The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, delivered her third state of the European Union speech on September 14th before the European Parliament, giving sight of her priorities for 2023 and using a rare public platform to speak more directly to audiences beyond the immediate EU stakeholders.  This week on the podcast, Ana Martínez, Practice Director; Alessandro Gangaros...

This week, we are presenting an archive of a GC briefing call on Liz Truss, the UK's new Prime Minister. UK Country Director Alex Dawson; Lead Analyst Joe Armitage; and Director Lilah Howson-Smith discuss the key takeaways from the new PM’s first speech on the steps of Downing Street, the Cabinet picks and what they mean for the policy agenda, and the major moments that will in...

Welcome to the final episode of our mini-series exploring the NHS's adoption of Integrated Care Systems, presented by the GC Health and Life Sciences practice. NHS England Chief Executive Amanda Pritchard has made clear that digital is central to transforming the NHS to tackle the backlog and recover services after the Covid-19 pandemic. As Integrated Care Systems continue to build resources to im...

Welcome to the Global Month Ahead, a new Global Counsel podcast highlighting the key events in the month to come. In each episode, Global Macro Associate Director Isabelle Trick will hear from different members of the GC team to preview the month's stories before they are in the headlines. This month: Director Robert Etter talks us through a pivot month for US politics, as the midterm elections ap...

Welcome to the second episode of a new mini-series exploring the NHS's adoption of Integrated Care Systems, presented by the Global Counsel Health and Life Sciences practice. As part of the NHS Long-Term Plan in 2019, plans were announced for all areas of England to become part of Integrated Care Systems (also referred to as ICSs). ICSs promise to bring down barriers to care and allow organisation...

Top In Tech is moving to its own podcast feed. To continue hearing the latest on the European 'techlash', search for Top in Tech on your favourite podcast app today! Few people have been as pivotal in the history of US tech and telecom regulation as Blair Levin. Levin served as chief of staff in the Federal Communications Commission during the Clinton administration and led the development of the...

For many living in the US and the UK, encountering crumbling and inadequate infrastructure is a daily part of life. Yet, the tide may be turning. Last month's G20 Summit saw a large commitment to international infrastructure investment, and the $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act is a rare bipartisan victory for US President Joe Biden. Why is infrastructure suddenly at the forefro...

Welcome to the first episode of a new mini-series exploring the NHS's adoption of Integrated Care Systems, presented by the Global Counsel Health and Life Sciences practice. As part of the NHS Long-Term Plan in 2019, plans were announced for all areas of England to become part of Integrated Care Systems (also referred to as ICSs). ICSs promise to bring down barriers to care and allow organisations...

Top in Tech is moving to its own podcast feed. To continue hearing the latest on the European 'techlash', please subscribe to the new feed by searching for ''Top in Tech'' in your podcast app. On this episode of Top in Tech, we are crossing the Atlantic to explore recent policy developments in the US and UK. First, Senior Practice Director Conan D'Arcy speaks to Senior Associate Ugonma Nwankw...

After less than two weeks of campaigning, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak have emerged as the two candidates vying to replace outgoing Prime Minister Boris Johnson. The 180,000 members of the Conservative Party will now choose between the two over the summer.  In this special briefing, the GC UK Politics and Policy team outlines the next steps of the race and the candidates. They discuss: - What bu...

Top in Tech is moving to its own podcast feed. To continue hearing the latest on the European 'techlash', please subscribe to the new feed by searching for ''Top in Tech'' in your podcast app. Welcome to the first episode of Top in Tech's monthly in-conversation series, where Senior Practice Director Conan D'Arcy will be interviewing the policymakers, thought-leaders and industry experts the on cu...

Welcome back to ''The geopolitics of'', our new podcast mini-series exploring geopolitics in the modern age. In today's episode, International Policy Practice Director Jon Garvie is joined by Tiffany McDonald , who has twenty years of experience as a diplomat, serving in the UK, Indonesia, Korea, and most recently as Australia's High Commissioner to Brunei during its high-profile ASEAN Chair year....

Top in Tech is moving to its own podcast feed. To continue hearing the latest on the European 'techlash', please subscribe to the new feed by searching for ''Top in Tech'' in your podcast app. On this episode of Top in Tech, Conan D'Arcy is joined by Max von Thun to discuss Max's recent report on the future of workplace regulation. Is hybrid work here to stay, and what regulation do business leade...

From 12-17 June, trade ministers gathered in Geneva for the long-awaited 12th WTO Ministerial Conference (MC12) and achieved agreement on a series of reforms after several years of deadlock. These include an intellectual property waiver for covid-19 vaccines, the WTO response to the pandemic, a moratorium on e-commerce duties, and the partial elimination of fisheries subsidies. But will the MC12 o...

UK foreign secretary Liz Truss has declared that nothing is off-limits in terms of sanctioning individuals to put pressure on Putin and his Ukraine policy. In this week’s podcast, we ask how far this no-holds barred approach is true, not just in Russia but also more broadly. Has Russia’s invasion of Ukraine fundamentally changed the UK’s willingness to go after “the bad guys” – and their money – i...

NOTE: Top in Tech is moving to its own dedicated podcast feed starting this month. To continue receiving new episodes every month, click here to subscribe or search for Top in Tech in your podcast app! Introducing Top in Tech, your guide for navigating and understanding the European 'tech-lash', the frontline of a new push to regulate the technology sector. Each month, the Global Counsel team...

After almost a decade of centre-right leadership, Anthony Albanese emerged as Australia’s new Prime Minister following this week's elections. Yet uncertainty remains; Albanese's Labor Party ran on few policy specifics beyond a repudiation of incumbent Scott Morrison's guarded approach to climate, and surging turnout for the Greens prevented them from securing an outright majority. And it's not jus...

Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, there’s been a lot of talk about the return of history. Suddenly, the post-1989 assumptions that liberal democracy and open markets were the single models on which most countries would converge now looks at best naïve. What if geopolitics never went away? What if many of the most important policy struggles of the digital era have been taking place in the...

The modern internet runs on the free flow of data across the Atlantic ocean. But as policymakers push toward different systems for the regulation of data collection, what are the implications of a decoupling of data between the US and EU? This week on the podcast, GC Director Tom White convenes a panel of experts and policymakers from Brussels to Washington to discuss the challenges posed by trans...

As technology advances and the world pushes to reduce emissions, are we entering a new age of nuclear power? Senior Adviser Geoffrey Norris hosts a roundtable discussion to discuss recent developments with Associate Saskia Giraud-Reeves and Adviser Stephanie Grumet, both of whom have recently written blogs for Global Counsel exploring nuclear power. Plus, the panel is joined by Associate Giovanni...