Robin Pomeroy is in charge of the World Economic Forum's audio content and hosts the Forum's weekly flagship podcast Radio Davos. Before joining the Forum, Robin spent more than two decades at the global news agency Reuters, as a correspondent in Brussels, Rome and Tehran, and as a senior desk editor in London. He helped found the London-based media literacy charity The Charlotte Project, and taught journalism to Masters students at City, University of London. Robin is a fellow of the Knight Wallace Fellowship of journalists.
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"A hit record speaks to the souls of a million strangers."
“Unless the clean products become competitive, price competitive, it's very difficult to create markets. In wind and solar, it took almost four decades for that to happen. We know that we...
We are only at the start of the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution. So how can we get past the hype and start to understand the opportunities and risks of this transformative technol...
“If you look at how we have managed to advance cooperation and multilateralism, both during the Cold War and the post-Cold War, the middle powers play this extremely important role in bot...
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