Breakfast Briefing with Ceri Smith, Director General, Strategy & Investment, Department for Business and Trade
Author WIG Date 14 Mar 2024
A Recording of the WIG Breakfast Briefing with Ceri Smith, Director General, Strategy & Investment, Department for Business and Trade
The Bank of England’s recent economic growth forecast for the UK in 2024 is currently 0%. Collaboration between the public and private sector will be critical to address sluggish growth and attract inward investment. In this session, we will focus on how we can make the UK a competitive destination for FDI and where the Department of Business and Trade seeks to work with the private sector to create a compelling narrative and strategy for investment, growth and productivity.
Watch this session to understand:
• How the DBT is delivering a new investment strategy for the UK
• The role of the Office for Investment (OfI), to ensure that the UK attracts the most strategic and impactful investments
• What the DBT’s forward strategy and outlook is and how they are seeking to work across the public, private, not-for-profit and higher education sector
Closed captions and transcripts are available.
Please note the Q&A is not included in this recording.
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Speaker at the Event
Ceri Smith became Director General, Strategy and Investment in the Department for Business and Trade (DBT) in February 2023. From April 2021 he was Director General, Strategy and Investment at the Department for International Trade (DIT).
He joined DIT after 8 years at UK Government Investments where, amongst other things, he set up the British Business Bank, and led on the government’s shareholder interests in Channel 4, the Land Registry, Homes England and the Ordnance Survey. He was a Non-Executive Director at the British Business Bank and a Non-Executive member of the Homes England Board.
Ceri previously spent almost 20 years across a range of economic policy roles in HM Treasury and the Business Department, has worked in Brussels with the Foreign Office and with the DTI’s Small Business Service.
Ceri is a Trustee of the MS Society and a governor of Camden School for Girls.