The hushed rooms of the Château de la Muette, the Paris headquarters of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), hosted a highly anticipated meeting on 5 October. A high-profile panel addressed the ambassadors of the institution’s 38 member countries.
In addition to Australia’s Mathias Cormann, the OECD’s secretary-general, the panel included Yves Perrier – CEO of Amundi, Europe’s leading asset management company with €1,729bn in assets under management – Brendan Bechtel – CEO of the Bechtel Group, the leading US construction company – and Antony Blinken, the US Secretary of State.
The latter joined by videoconference, “but at one point, the plan was that he would come to the conference,” said the OECD… as if to emphasise the importance of the event.
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