Join us for an important and timely panel discussion at our partner Clintons, on the political and economic implications in 2024 of two major conflicts, looming elections, Chinese slowdown and more. Speakers include Professor Dennis J. Snower, President of the Global Solutions Initiative, Dean Lush, Vice Chairman, Rothschilds Wealth Management, Victor Balfour, Investment Strategist, Rothschilds Wealth Management and Investment Advisor, Raffaello Nemni.  The panel will be facilitated by Circle Square member, Jeremy Smilg.

Dennis J. Snower is an American-German economist, specialising in macroeconomic theory and policy, labour economics, digital governance, social economics and the psychology of economic decisions in “caring economics”. He is President of the Global Solutions Initiative in Berlin, which advises the G20 and the G7, as well as Professorial Research Fellow at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at Oxford University, Fellow of The New Institute in Hamburg, and Non-resident Fellow of the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. He is former president of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. His prominent labour research explores the role of “insiders” and “outsiders” in generating unemployment and macroeconomic fluctuations; his socio-economic research examines how social groups shape economic behaviour; his psycho-economic research explains how economic decisions depend on psychological motives; and his macroeconomic research investigates why inflation and unemployment can move in opposite directions even in the long run.

Dean is Executive Vice Chairman at Rothschild & Co Wealth Management. His responsibilities include supporting senior colleagues in the management team, assisting Client Advisers, participating in the firm’s business acceptance procedures and chairing the Investment Risk Committee.

Victor is an Investment Strategist at Rothschild & Co Wealth Management, having joined in 2012. At Rothschild & Co he is responsible for formulating the in-house strategy view on economic, political and market developments.
He is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Securities & Investment and is a Trustee of the Rothschild & Co Pension Scheme.

Raffaello Nemni

Jeremy used to run portfolio management and investment consulting for UBS Wealth Management London and then was Head of Product for Merrill Lynch Wealth Management Europe. Having escaped from the City, he earned a PhD specialising in the history of the Jewish community in eighteenth century England and sits on the investment committee of a number of charities.