Børge Brende is President and CEO of the World Economic Forum. He has served as Norway’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Trade and Industry, and Minister of Climate and the Environment, and he was Deputy Chairman of the Norwegian Conservative Party as well as MP. He was full-time city councillor in his hometown of Trondheim. He was Chairman of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development and Secretary-General of the Norwegian Red Cross. He was Board Member of Statoil and the Norwegian School of Economics. He was Chair of Mesta, Norway’s largest contracting group in road and highway maintenance. He is currently a Director of the Philanthropy Asia Alliance. Member of the Advisory Council, Harvard International Negotiation Program, the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED), the Strategic Committee of Sciences Po, and is on the Board of the Bilderberg Meeting. He is a Member of UN Food Systems Advisory Board.
Trade powers productivity. It is an engine of innovation, driving knowledge spill-over and technology upgrading. It can encourage improved governance and institutional reform. ‘Slowbaliza...
贸易是生产力发展的动力，是创新引擎，能够推动知识外溢和技术升级，鼓励改善治理和制度改革。但自2005年前后起，“慢全球化”阻碍了贸易的发展。在经历了新冠疫情的起起伏伏之后，我们必须重新发挥贸易的力量，支持增长、就业和可持续发展。
There is an overwhelming sense the world is sliding toward a more competitive and even confrontational era as wars rage across the globe, companies reassess supply chains and frontier tec...
2030年に設定された、国連の持続可能な開発目標（SDGs）の達成期限まで、残り10年を切りました。現時点で、17の目標に対する世界の達成度は、半分を少し超えたところですが、このままの進捗スピードではSDGsの達成は難しいでしょう。データが存在する目標のうち、軌道に乗っているものはわずか12％。ほぼ半分が進行していない状況にあり、3分の1以上は前進していないか、2015年...
The world is a little over the halfway mark toward the 2030 deadline for achieving the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Progress so far is nowhere near where it needs to be. ...
Services trade represents a huge untapped potential for growth. Services account for two-thirds of global GDP and 6 out of 10 jobs. Globally, services grew twice as fast as goods trade fr...
This article first appeared in The Hindustan Times.
本来、人道支援は短期的な危機対応を目的としていますが、2022年に発行された報告書「人道システムの現状（State of Humanitarian System）」では、今日の人道資金の大半は、長期化した状況に対して使われているという、悲痛な現実が確認されました。またこうした状況は、さらに広がりをみせています。
En un principio, la ayuda humanitaria se destinaba a paliar crisis a corto plazo para responder a emergencias inmediatas. Pero el informe de 2022 sobre El estado del sistema humanitario, ...
Humanitarian aid was originally intended as short-term crisis relief to respond to immediate emergencies. But the 2022 State of the Humanitarian System report confirmed to us of the sober...
Digital transformation is rapidly taking place, and we need the right governance frameworks to maximize its positive contribution and enable societies to prosper.
2023年を迎え、「分断された世界における協力の姿」をテーマに、スイスのダボス・クロスタースで世界経済フォーラムの年次総会が開催される中、世界の貿易と投資の未来は不透明な状況にあります。地政学的緊張と産業政策は、開かれた経済に長い影を落としています。
A medida que nos adentramos en 2023, con la reunión anual del Foro Económico Mundial en Davos bajo el lema "Cooperación en un mundo fragmentado", el futuro del comercio y la inversión mun...
Over the last few years, the world has experienced a gradual slide from cooperation to competition to conflict. The post–Cold War international order has been replaced, first by a period ...
As we enter 2023, with the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos taking place under the banner of “Cooperation in a Fragmented World”, the future of global trade and investment i...
