At the 2024 Global Infrastructure Initiative (GII) Summit in Dubai, McKinsey senior partner Amadeo Di Lodovico spoke with Yuvraj Narayan, the group deputy CEO and CFO of end-to-end supply-chain-solutions company DP World, during a keynote presentation. Narayan has witnessed the evolution of trade, end-to-end supply chain operations, and globalization more broadly over the past two decades, as well as some of the changes that have occurred in the past four years. In this conversation, Di Lodovico and Narayan discuss how technology, climate, and customer expectations have influenced trade, as well as the pockets of opportunity that have emerged as a result. An edited version of their conversation follows.
Amadeo Di Lodovico: What do you…