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Chrystia Freeland
Tariffs and Trade
Global Issues
Global Economy
Chrystia Freeland delivers insider perspective on international relations, trade policy, and American leadership through firsthand experience negotiating with U.S. administrations. Former Canadian Deputy Prime Minister and bestselling author helps organizations understand geopolitical strategy and economic policy from an allied nation's viewpoint.
Finance
Economist
Political Analyst
Business Leader
Chrystia Freeland is a former deputy prime minister of Canada whose firsthand experience negotiating with American leaders gives her rare insight into how the world sees the United States. Freeland served as Canada's finance minister and deputy prime minister, where she led trade negotiations with the Trump and Biden administrations. She is the bestselling author of Plutocrats and her forthcoming book, Unreliable Boyfriend, which examines America's shifting role on the world stage. Freeland's value lies in perspective. Having sat across the table from American presidents and their teams, she understands how U.S. policy decisions ripple outward and how they look from the outside. She translates that experience into frank, often funny analysis of what America gets right, what it gets wrong, and how its leaders can craft policies that actually deliver for working people rather than just promising to. Audiences leave Freeland's talks with a clearer understanding of how allies perceive American power, practical frameworks for thinking about trade and economic policy, and a renewed sense of what American leadership could look like when it is consistent and purposeful. Her arguments are grounded in real negotiations and real outcomes, not theory. Book Chrystia Freeland for an outsider's honest, informed take on America at a moment when that perspective has never mattered more.
Freeland brings the rare vantage point of someone who has negotiated directly with multiple U.S. administrations, translating complex trade dynamics into practical frameworks your leadership teams can actually use. Her track record across both Trump and Biden negotiations means she understands how American policy decisions land with allies and trading partners in real time.
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Chrystia Freeland draws on her direct experience at the negotiating table with American administrations to frame her talks around real negotiations and documented outcomes, using that firsthand record to build practical frameworks for understanding trade and economic policy.
Chrystia Freeland speaks on tariffs and trade, geopolitics and global economic policy, diplomacy and negotiation, and how US policy decisions are perceived by allied nations. She served as Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Canada, leading trade negotiations directly with the Trump and Biden administrations.
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