Curtis Dickinson will discuss his second budget before a business audience next week.

The finance minister, who is scheduled to present the 2020-21 Budget Statement in the House of Assembly on Friday, will appear on an expert panel at the Chamber of Commerce’s annual Budget Breakfast.

The chamber said next Monday’s event at the Hamilton Princess & Beach Club is nearly sold out.

The breakfast is sponsored by PwC Bermuda and will follow the same panel format as previous years.

This year’s breakfast will feature Mr Dickinson, as well as panellists Nathan Kowalski, chief financial officer of Anchor Investment Management, Edward Ball, the Bermuda Public Services Union’s general secretary, and Kirsten Beasley, head of healthcare broking, North America at Willis Towers Watson. Arthur Wightman, PwC Bermuda leader, will moderate the panel discussion.

Kendaree Burgess, the chamber’s chief executive officer, said: “We welcome the opportunity to present a forum for the Bermuda business community to connect and participate in discussions surrounding the Budget Statement.”

PwC’s Mr Wightman said: “PwC’s 2020 Global Annual CEO Survey highlights record levels of pessimism in the global economy. Bermuda is faced with its own mounting challenges, not least to jump-start the economy and make sure it works for all.

“With ten years to go to achieve its shared vision to end poverty, rescue the planet and build a peaceful world, the United Nations is calling on more governments, civil society, businesses and all people to make its 17 sustainable development goals their own.

“The key to achieving sustainability in Bermuda is a collective and common focus on those things that will enable social, economic and environmental prosperity.”

Tickets for the Budget Breakfast are available at www.bermudachamber.bm