The Export-Import Bank of the United States will gather policymakers, financiers and industrialists in Washington at the end of April with a purpose to place export finance at the centre of America’s evolving economic doctrine.
EXIM”s annual conference, to be held on April 29–30 at the Omni Shoreham Hotel, is framed around a succinct theme—“Buy American, Build the Future”—but the ambition is broader. Government officials and business sector executives will convene to examine how the United States might reinforce domestic industry while extending its commercial reach abroad, particularly in sectors tied to economic resilience and national security.
Senior administration figures, including Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and White House science adviser Michael Kratsios, are expected to appear alongside lawmakers and industry leaders. Their discussions are likely to converge on familiar pressures: supply chains that have proved fragile, intensifying global competition and the growing importance of energy and critical materials to strategic autonomy.
This is, in effect, what might be called America’s new trade playbook: a system in which domestic production and international expansion are treated as mutually reinforcing, and in which public finance is used to tilt the field.
In an interview with The Pavlovic Today, EXIM’s chairman, John Jovanovic, cast this approach in expansive terms, describing the administration’s economic agenda as “the most transformational of our time.”
At the conference, government officials will be joined by a cross-section of industry and policy figures. These include Mike Gallagher of Palantir Technologies and Rita Adiani of Titan Mining Corporation.
Executives from Perella Weinberg Partners and General Matter—including Andrew Bednar and Scott Nolan—will also attend.
Dwight Anderson of Ospraie Management and Gracelin Baskaran of the Center for Strategic and International Studies are also on the list, with the line-up continuing to take shape.
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