Former: Minister, Norwegian Foreign Affairs, Trade and Industry, Environment; Deputy Chairman, Norwegian Conservative Party; Member, Norwegian Parliament; Member, Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs and Deputy Chairman, Standing Committee on Energy and Environment; Chairman, UN Commission on Sustainable Development; Secretary-General, Norwegian Red Cross; International Vice-Chairman, China Council for Int'l Cooperation on Environment and Development; Board Chairman, Mesta; Board Member, Norwegian School of Economics and Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health, WHO; Board Director, Technology for Ocean Foundation, Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Ocean; Managing Director, World Economic Forum. Political Adviser to Conservative Party Chairman; Chairman, Young Conservatives; CFO, KB Entreprenør. Since 2017, President, World Economic Forum. Director, Philanthropy Asia Alliance. Member: Board, Statoil; Board, China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development Phase VII; Strategic Committee, Paris School of Int’l Affairs, Sciences Po; UN High-level Advisory Group for Every Woman Every Child; Municipal Executive Board, Trondheim; Core Advisory Council, Harvard Int’l Negotiation Program; Steering Committee, Bilderberg Meetings; Board of Directors, Partnering for Green Growth and Global Goals 2030. BA, Norwegian Univ. of Science and Tech. Recipient, awards, honours: Harish Mahindra Memorial Global Award for Outstanding Contributions to Economic Welfare and Sustainable Growth; Order of the Aztec Eagle, Mexico; Grand Cross, Order of San Carlos, Colombia; Commander, Royal Norwegian Order of St Olav; Cavaliere Di Gran Croce, Italy; Grand Cross, Order of the Phoenix, Greece.
Last fall, sixteen leaders from governments, businesses and international organizations gathered in New York to conduct a simulated response to a hypothetical global health emergency. We ...
Global risks that were once on the horizon are now at the doorstep.
While the changing nature of global power may tempt some actors to seek advantage through confrontation, the expanding field of stakeholders offers the possibility of a course correction....
Countries everywhere face daunting socioeconomic challenges. Inequality is rising. Cohesion is weakening as societies undergo identity crises. And as demonstrations from Santiago to Paris...
各国都面临着严峻的社会经济挑战。不平等状况加剧，社会经历着身份危机，凝聚力逐渐减弱。从圣地亚哥到巴黎再到贝鲁特的示威游行也表明人们对政府逐渐失去了信任。
The EU decided last month not to open membership talks with Albania and North Macedonia just yet and a broader discussion on the future of the EU is ongoing. But there is positive economi...
If the 19th century can be characterized by the rise of industrialization and the 20th century by the expansion of the market economy and globalization, the defining characteristics of th...
While there is profound opportunity to be captured in the new era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, there will also be immense disruption across industries. For instance, in a little o...
グローバリゼーション4.0の経済的、社会的、環境的な変化がもたらす課題に世界が直面する中、人材投資の重要性がかつてないほど高まっています。
Conforme el mundo enfrenta los desafíos económicos, sociales y ambientales transformadores de la Globalización 4.0, nunca ha sido más importante invertir en las personas.
As the world faces the transformative economic, social and environmental challenges of Globalization 4.0, it has never been more important to invest in people.
近年の地経学的な発展は、国際的な連携の影響力を反映している一方で、既存システムの限界を浮き彫りにしている。日本がG20の議長国を初めて務める年でもある2019年は、国際社会が経済成長を目指した協力の在り方を再確認し、新しいテクノロジーへのレジリエントかつ柔軟性のある貿易の在り方を見直す機会になるであろう。
Geo-economic developments are illustrating the power of global partnerships but also the constraints of current systems. As Japan begins its presidency of the G20 for the first time this ...
En la Conferencia de Seguridad de Munich, la semana pasada, moderé una mesa redonda sobre un tema intrigante: ¿Podemos hacer que los competidores [económicos] como los Estados Unidos, Eur...
At the Munich Security Conference last week, I moderated a panel discussion with an intriguing headline: can we make [economic] competitors like the US, Europe and China trade again?
