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.
The response to the COVID-19 pandemic has shown the world's ability to diverge from business-as-usual to protect public health and safety. How can we carry that over to address the threat...
The United Nations is 75, and, according to Indian Minister of External Affairs Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, it is showing its age.
The Great Reset podcast is going daily all this week during the World Economic Forum’s Sustainable Development Impact Summit, with highlights from the discussions, as well as interviews w...
Opposition to vaccines is almost as old as vaccines themselves. It started in the 1850s when libertarians and people of certain religious beliefs campaigned against making the smallpox va...
Governments have spent more than $10 trillion to contain COVID-19 and its economic impact. How much of that could, should, and will go into improving the way we do things, for the sake of...
"Greed is right, greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit [...] greed, for lack of a better word, is good."
Once again, economists are using the word "unprecedented" to describe the impact of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OEC...
As business leaders and policy makers around the world come to terms with the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, what should be their priorities? Do we aim to get back to where we were b...
“系统性种族主义”、“无意识偏见” ……我们如何才能认识到这种更为“阴险”的种族主义形式，并消除其对少数族裔就业机会、工资、健康状况和政治参与的真正影响？
Heavy industry (cement, steel, chemicals and aluminium) and heavy-duty transport (shipping, trucking and aviation) are together responsible for nearly one-third of global CO2 emissions - ...
Back in March, when World Vs Virus was launched, did we understand the enormity of the pandemic? One way to find out is to listen back to some of the interviews we did then.
He won the Formula 1 World Championship in 2016 and then retired. Nico Rosberg had reached the top of motor-racing at 31 and moved on to other challenges: raising a family and seeking out...
'Systemic racism'. 'Unconscious bias'. How can we recognise the more insidious forms of racism and counter their very real impact on the employment chances, pay, health and political enga...
“The evidence we have is pretty clear that people who have been living in places that are more polluted over time, that they are more likely to die from coronavirus.”
Why are people of colour - ethnic minorities in Europe and North America - at greater risk of contracting and dying from COVID-19? There's not yet a definitive answer, but Devi Sridhar, P...
