In-person and online public event (Old Theatre, Old Building)
Thursday 4 June 2026 6.30pm - 8pm
Join us for this public event in which our speakers discuss their new book, How to Win a Trade War.
In their talk they will explore the history, players, and rules of trade, asking how we prepare for what the future might hold. Could trade wars lead to hot wars? What can the West learn from China?
Meet our speakers and chair
Chad P Bown has been the Reginald Jones Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE) in Washington, DC since 2018. Bown joined PIIE as a senior fellow in 2016 and, in 2017, he and Soumaya Keynes co-created Trade Talks, a podcast about the economics of international trade and policy, a show that they co-hosted until 2021. Bown has undertaken public service for two U.S. administrations. He served as Chief Economist in the U.S. Department of State in the Biden-Harris administration from 2024-2025 and also served as Senior Economist for International Trade and Investment in the White House on President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) during 2010-2011.
Soumaya Keynes became economics columnist for the Financial Times after eight years at The Economist where she covered economics, trade and globalisation.
Swati Dhingra is an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics at LSE. Before joining LSE, she completed a PhD at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and was a fellow at Princeton University. She is an External member of the Monetary Policy Committee at the Bank of England.
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