Future of Security Conference: Article 2, Collective Economic Defence and Institutional Responses

24 July 2025 09:00 to 17:00

24Jul

Join senior leaders from government, finance, defence, and industry for a pivotal event exploring how the UK and its allies can strengthen economic security amid intensifying geopolitical risk and the realities of undeclared economic warfare.

Hosted in partnership with the Centre for Economic Security (CES) and King's Economic Conflict & Competition Research Group, the conference launches a critical conversation on the practical steps needed to build economic resilience in support of national security.

Event Overview

Economic security — the capacity of a nation’s institutions, financial systems, industrial base, and policy levers to underpin national defence — is a vital component of deterrence and strategic readiness.

In today’s era of economic statecraft and coercion, this aspect of security remains under-recognised and insufficiently integrated into traditional defence and security thinking. As governments across NATO and beyond transition their forces to warfighting readiness, cross-sector collaboration is more important than ever.

This conference aims to address that gap by fostering dialogue and shared understanding between key actors across government, finance, and industry.

Why Attend?

This event offers cross-sector insight into how we can collectively:

Strengthen the economic levers that support deterrence and defence
Align financial systems with strategic policy goals
Secure critical supply chains and industrial capacity
Overcome finance barriers in both the defence and commercial sectors

If you are a policymaker, financial actor, defence supplier, or corporate leader, this is a unique opportunity to connect with others who share a clear conviction: that economic security is essential to protecting the democratic, market-based values that have underpinned global stability for over 80 years.

Attendance is by invitation only.
To express interest, please contact: Haley.Smith@kcl.ac.uk

Conference partner:

The Centre for Economic Security (CES)

The Centre for Economic Security is a research and convening organisation that dedicates itself to three goals: first, raising awareness and understanding of economic threat, second, to establishing the operational tools to manage that threat and third to enabling policy makers, financial institutions and corporates to anticipate and deal strategically with those threats.

Its vision is to promote strategic economic readiness in a fragmented world. They do this by working with governments, financial institutions and corporates to formulate resilient and effective tools. learn more about CES