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.
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...
La Grande Réinitialisation - reconstruire l'économie mondiale d'une manière plus juste et plus verte alors que nous sortons de la pandémie de coronavirus - exigera également des sociétés ...
El Gran Reinicio - reconstruir la economía mundial de una manera más justa y más verde al salir de la pandemia del coronavirus - también exigirá que las sociedades luchen contra el racism...
"The COVID-19 crisis has shown us that our old systems are not fit any more for the 21st century," said World Economic Forum Executive Chairman Klaus Schwab. "In short, we need a great re...
The Great Reset - rebuilding the global economy in a fairer, greener way as we come out of the coronavirus pandemic - will also require societies to battle and beat racism.
"I don't think we should assume there'll be a post-COVID-19 era, any more than there's a post-influenza era, or a post-tuberculosis era, or a post-AIDS era."
1. How COVID-19 is affecting the globe
1. How COVID-19 is affecting the globe
Incredible: that's the word the IMF's chief economist uses to describe the impact of COVID-19 on the global economy.
1. WHO Assembly meets online
"Before, when I had my full time job, I only really got to play maybe two, three hours a night. But now my whole day is clear, I pretty much just play all day."
