Think
Research, ideas, frameworks and thought leadership.
The Institution Behind the Summit
Business Diplomat
The World's First Think-Do Tank on the Modern Silk Road.
Inaugural Edition21 October 2026Washington, D.C.
Business Diplomat works at the point where research becomes engagement. It studies how commerce, diplomacy and connectivity interact along the corridors now reopening between Asia, Europe, the Gulf and the wider world — and then acts on what it finds.
The World Business Diplomacy Summit is its flagship global convening platform.
Do
International engagement, economic diplomacy, market connectivity and practical initiatives.
Convene
Summits, forums, exchanges, delegations, dialogues and executive roundtables.
Underfoot
Marble and brass inlay in the floor of the Thomas Jefferson Building — a corridor built to be walked, not admired from a distance.
Ecosystem
A global architecture for business diplomacy
The Washington Summit sits at the top of a wider institutional ecosystem, each element of which addresses a different scale of the same conversation.
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World Business Diplomacy Summit
The flagship annual global gathering, anchored in Washington, D.C.
- 02
Business Diplomat Global Forum
International executive forums.
- 03
Business Diplomacy Symposium
Intellectual and academic convenings.
- 04
Regional Assemblies
Europe, Africa, Latin America, the Gulf and other regions.
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Global Exchange
International missions and delegations.
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Dialogues & Roundtables
Focused leadership conversations.