Welcome to this New Relationship Roundtable with Chris Barton, Her Majesty’s Trade Commissioner, Europe, as guest speaker, on the status-quo of Brexit, the implementation of the new trade agreement, and the way forward. We will also be joined by Mikael Milhøj, Chief Analyst at Danske Bank who will share insight from his perspective.

Chris Barton is Her Majesty’s Trade Commissioner for Europe, with responsibility for encouraging trade and investment between UK and other European countries as well as Israel. Chris joined the civil service in 1998, having spent 5 years as an Economics and Business Studies teacher. He has held a variety of posts since then in departments for business, energy, trade, Foreign Office and No10. He has focused on trade issues since 2013, including as Director for Trade Policy & Export Control (2013-16), Director for Multilateral and EU Trade Negotiations (2016-2019), Director for Bilateral Trade Relations (2019-20), Director for UK-EU Goods Negotiations in No10 (2020-2021), and Acting Director General for Trade Negotiations (2021).

About the Business Breakfast

The SCC's Business Breakfast bring together tailored and differently composed, intimate groups of business leaders for interactive discussions, following Chatham House Rule.

Booking information

Please register your interest to attend this event. Participant lists are curated with the theme of each Business Breakfast in mind, for all attendees to get the most out of the discussions. You will be notified if your seat has been confirmed. Payment will be made upon confirmation. By booking, non-members pay £15.

Terms & Conditions 

Bookings are non-refundable, but at the discretion of the organiser, you can change the name of the person attending. For this, please contact events@scc.org.uk.