Executive Vice-Presidents Vestager and Dombrovskis in the United States to discuss tech, trade, competition and the transatlantic agenda
From 26 September to 1 October, Executive Vice-Presidents Margrethe Vestager and Valdis Dombrovskis will be in the United States, where they will meet senior US officials and participate in the first-ever meeting of the EU-U.S. Trade and Technology Council (TTC). Executive Vice-President Dombrovskis will first travel to Washington, DC, where he will speak today at an event on transatlantic cooperation organised by the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. Executive Vice-President Vestager will first be in Los Angeles on Tuesday for a keynote at the Code Conference 2021. While in Washington, Executive Vice-President Dombrovskis will also meet with International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva; Janet Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury; Jerome Powell, Chair of the Federal Reserve; Katherine Tai, United States Trade Representative; and Gina Raimondo, Secretary of Commerce. He will hold meetings with Ron Wyden, Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, and Richard Neal, Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. The Executive Vice-Presidents will then travel to Pittsburgh, where they will participate in the inaugural meeting of the EU-U.S. Trade and Technology Council, which was launched earlier this year by President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and US President Joe Biden. Executive Vice-President Vestager will then head to New York where she will meet with UN Secretary General António Guterres before giving a keynote speech at the Fordham’s 48th Annual Conference on International Antitrust Law and Policy. She will then meet with the acting assistant attorney general of the US Department of Justice, Richard Powers. Executive Vice-President Dombrovskis will finish his visit in New York as well, where he will participate in a Ministerial Meeting of the Global Forum on Steel Excess Capacity, as well as hold meetings with Special Envoy on Climate Michael Bloomberg and senior business leaders.
