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What’s Next for Transatlantic Cooperation on Critical Minerals?
Moderators:
Penny Naas, Senior Vice President, Innovation and Competitiveness, German Marshall Fund of the United States
Peter S. Rashish, Vice President and Director of the Geoeconomics Program, American-German Institute
Panelists:
Conor Coleman, Head of Investments, U.S. International Development Finance Corporation
Matthias Koehler, Deputy Director-General, Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy of Germany
Abby Wulf, Founder and CEO, Lattice Strategies, and former Critical Minerals Lead at the U.S. Department of Energy
As the United States and Europe accelerate efforts to secure access to critical-mineral supply chains, questions about transatlantic coordination, economic security objectives, and their intersections with the global trading system, are becoming increasingly urgent.
Bringing together senior US, European, and German policymakers and industry leaders, the event will explore where transatlantic interests align, where frictions persist, and how current policy approaches may impact global trade governance.
The discussion examined the commercial and policy dimensions of the transatlantic critical-minerals challenge: the nature of the problem, the intersection of market dynamics and industrial policy, and Europe’s emerging approach to these issues. The second half of the program assessed the systemic implications, including the prospects for plurilateral arrangements, the role of the G7, and the meaning of expanding economic security policies for the global trading system.
This event is presented in partnership with the German Marshall Fund of the United States.
