Contributors and Acknowledgements

At the World Economic Forum Platform for the New Economy and Society

Roberto Crotti
Insight Lead – Economist

Thierry Geiger
Head, Benchmarking Practice

Vesselina Ratcheva
Frontier Insights Lead – New Metrics Co-Lab

Saadia Zahidi
Managing Director

We are also extremely grateful to our colleagues in the Platform for Shaping the Future of the New Economy and Society for their help and support, in particular to Elselot Hasselaar and Melisande Schifter.

For more information, or to get involved, please contact cnes@weforum.org.

Collaborations

The Platform for the New Economy and Society aims to empower decision-making among leaders in business and policy by providing fresh, actionable insight through collaboration with leading experts and data-holding companies as part of its New Metrics Co-Lab. We are pleased to have collaborated with LinkedIn this year and thank the following contributors:

Rachel Bowley
Senior Data Scientist

Kristin Keveloh
Manager Economic Graph Team

Mar Carpanelli
Data Scientist

We are immensely grateful to Professor Ricardo Hausmann, Director of the Growth Lab at Harvard’s Center for International Development, and Rafik Hariri, Professor of the Practice of International Political Economy at Harvard Kennedy School, and Professor Laura D’Andrea Tyson, Director of the Institute for Business and Social Impact at the Haas School of Business, for their longstanding guidance and support.

A special thank you to Michael Fisher for his excellent copyediting work, Design Resources Ltd for production of this online report, Accurat for graphic designing and layout of the PDF report as well as for its outstanding work to create the report’s Country Profiles and online Data Explorer, and Yukai Du, who created the cover.