Financial Times’ U.S. News Editor Derek Brower will speak at Mount Allison University on Thursday, Feb. 5 at 7 p.m. in the Crabtree Auditorium (M14), entitled From NATO to trade: Will the Global Order Survive?

Based in New York, Brower leads the Financial Times’ coverage of U.S. politics, the economy, and national security, including reporting on the Federal Reserve, foreign policy, and defence. He has reported extensively from conflict zones and global hotspots, including Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on the ground in 2022. His career has taken him across the Middle East and North Africa, as well as through Russia, the U.K., Canada, and the United States.

“Derek Brower offers an exceptional, real-world perspective on some of the most urgent political and economic questions of our time,” says Dean of Social Sciences and Business Yves Bourgeois. “His reporting bridges global geopolitics and everyday realities, giving students and the wider community a valuable opportunity to engage directly with issues shaping the future of international cooperation, security, and trade.”

Brower is widely regarded as an expert on U.S. politics, geopolitics, Russia, and the former Soviet Union, Saudi Arabia and OPEC, and the global energy transition. Prior to joining the Financial Times, he served as a director at RS Energy Group, advising hedge funds and institutional investors on geopolitics and U.S. energy markets.

Brower holds a PhD in Russian literature from the University of London and studied modern history at the University of Oxford. His talk will explore how shifting alliances, geopolitical tensions, and economic pressures are reshaping the global order and what that could mean for international cooperation, trade, and security in the years ahead.

Event info: 
Thursday, February 5, 2026 
7 p.m.
Crabtree Auditorium (M14) 
Free, in-person event only.