Business Encourages Restoring Productive Growth at Productivity Conference

Our Executive Board Member Philip Aiken attended the 2025 Annual Conference of the Global Forum on Productivity co-hosted by the UK Government and the OECD.

In the margins of the conference, Philip Aiken met with the Co-Chair of the Global Forum of Productivity, Rodrigo Krell, and the Member of the UK’s Industrial Strategy Council, the Rt. Hon. Greg Clark, to underline the important role business has in encouraging productive growth.

The OECD must prioritise restoring productive growth as the foundation of long-term prosperity. To reverse this trend, we need bold, cross-cutting structural reforms that enhance the framework conditions for private sector investment, innovation, and job creation. Fair competition, efficient regulation, lean governments and access to finance remain powerful engines of our economic competitiveness.

The OECD also needs to continue being a key player in shaping policy reforms aimed at boosting growth, productivity, and long-term economic stability, which offer businesses opportunities to thrive in a more predictable, efficient and dynamic economic environment.

Left to right: The Rt. Hon. Greg Clark, Member of the United Kingdom's Industrial Strategy Advisory Council, with our Executive Board Member, Philip Aiken.