Managing Director, leading the Centre for Nature and Climate and the Forum’s Foundations (Global Shapers, Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, Young Global Leaders); previously Member of the Executive Committee and Co-Head of the Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, overseeing the Centre’s Global Network of Affiliated Centres, Innovator Communities, and Deep Tech units; earlier roles include Head of Programming and Deputy Head of the Global Programming Group, responsible for the Forum’s Annual Meetings in Davos and China, as well as programme officer positions at the International Labour Organization and UNDP; certified facilitator, public speaker, and regular commentator on the intersection of technology, society, and the economy; Professor of Practice at the University of Geneva.
Since the advent of the modern firm, businesses have had to contend with a fundamental paradox: society needs large organizations to solve complex collective problems, but also fears cent...
截止上个月，183位企业首席执行官签署了一份声明，承诺他们要超越“股东至上”的魔咒，转而关注包括员工、客户、供应商和社会等所有利益相关方的利益——很多人都对此表示怀疑。但将美国企业圆桌会议声明仅仅斥之为一项公关噱头而不予理睬是因为未能意识到企业前进所面临的剧烈逆风压力——也没有考虑到事实已经验证了他们的适应能力。
“We need a new architecture for this new world,” Hillary Clinton said in her farewell speech as US secretary of state. “[One] more Frank Gehry than formal Greek.”
When Jack Ma, China’s iconic business leader and founder of the e-commerce giant Alibaba, spoke at the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in 2017, the corridors were packed with minist...
Have you ever wondered why trees grow to a few hundred feet but not a mile? Did you realize that most companies stop growing at half a trillion in assets? Have you wondered why the city i...
Since the Agrarian Revolution, technological progress has always fueled opposing forces of diffusion and concentration. Diffusion occurs as old powers and privileges corrode; concentratio...
Desde la revolución agraria, el progreso tecnológico siempre ha alimentado fuerzas opuestas de dispersión y concentración. La primera ocurre con la erosión de viejos poderes y privilegio...
Rapid change and rampant inequality are testing the resilience of economies and societies. It is in our hands to ensure that the potentially disruptive shifts of the Fourth Industrial Rev...
The world economy has had sluggish growth for years. Cities are congested like never before. Man-made fake news pollutes citizens’ thinking. And our political systems seem to crack under ...
Leadership is about defining what the future should look like and getting stakeholders not only to share but develop that future together.
Exactly 200 years ago, in 1816, a teen-aged girl called Mary Shelley began writing the story of Frankenstein in a villa in Cologny, a short walk from where the World Economic Forum now ha...
At a recent talk at TEDx Lausanne, I began my remarks with two simple questions: who feels we are living in a time of remarkable innovation in science and technology? And, who believes th...
August 15, 1971, marked the end of a golden quarter. Faced with the mounting debt of the Vietnam War, rising unemployment, and a worsening balance of payments, US President Richard Nixon ...
