Non-Paper No 1/2025: The Current Global Regulatory and Investment Environment – The OECD Countries’ Perspective on Economic Security

Written by Dominika Pietkun, Programme Associate at the CELIS Institute and PhD Candidate at the Institute of Legal Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

CFIS Investment Screening and Economic Security 2024 (CFIS 24) brought together a diverse panel of experts to discuss the regulatory and investment challenges from the perspective of economic security. The first panel, titled “The Current Global Regulatory and Investment Environment: The OECD Countries’ Perspective on Economic Security”, featured experts from four OECD members, i.e. the United States, the United Kingdom, France and Chile.

The discussion covered aspects such as: (i) how to understand economic security and what are the threats to economic security from the perspective of OECD countries, (ii) whether economic security can only be protected based on national security considerations and how to respond to the necessity of cooperation, as today’s economic security issues require collective action, (iii) what the future of economic security regulations might look like, and (iv) where the balance lies between security and growth.

This non-paper summarizes the panel’s main insights and indicates strategic directions in the field of economic security.