The heat was searing on the streets, fraying tempers and exhausting New York’s habitually harried inhabitants. And yet, perhaps remarkably given the circumstances, across the city it was transatlantic business as usual.
As the Brexit result unfolded across the Pond on the night of June 23, the New York-London business community was keeping its cool.
“These are sophisticated players,” explained Antonia Romeo, the Government’s newly appointed British consul general in the Big Apple, who also holds the new title of director-general economic and commercial affairs USA. “No one is going to panic.”
Her role involves overseeing British trade policy across the US; her ambition, she said, is to “rocket boost” British-US trade. And, despite the vote to leave the EU, she insisted that most of the business and financial leaders she talks to are remaining calm.
“There is definitely no sense that this is a crisis. These are organisations …
Antonia Romeo: The woman who'll make sure British business keeps booming in the US
