What are 'elastocalorics' or 'reconfigurable intelligent surfaces'? In a few years' time these emerging technologies may have transformed the way we heat and cool our homes, and how we transmit ever greater amounts of data. They are among the technological innovations identified in the World Economic Forum's annual Top 10 Emerging Technologies report, which picks the tech that could transform the world in the coming years. In this video-podcast, the two lead authors of the report take us through each of the 10 on this year's list. The report is produced in collaboration with Frontiers. Guests: Mariette DiChristina, Dean and Professor of the Practice in Journalism, Boston University College of Communication Bernie Meyerson, Chief Innovation Officer Emeritus, IBM Links: Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2024: Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Previous editions of the Top 10 Tech report: 2023 2021 2020 Related podcasts: Check out all our podcasts on : - - : - : - : Join the :

Unsafe, costly transit contributes to everything from wealth and equity gaps to pollution. But as cities grapple with growing populations, shifting needs, technological advancement and the energy transition, we’re approaching a moment of reinvention that could lead to positive change if planned correctly. Benjamin de la Peña, the CEO of the Shared-Use Mobility Center breaks down the incentives and strategies that could drive more climate-ready, equitable, safe and affordable transportation. He also discusses the importance of systems thinking and planning that factors in the generations to come -- thinking that can help any leader make big change happen. 

From bespoke gene editing to AI-powered healthcare, we are living in an age of breakthroughs propelled by advances in AI. What are the trade-offs societies and industries need to manage as AI adoption progresses? Speaker: Erik Brynjolfsson, Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Professor; Director, Digital Economy Lab, Stanford University Host: Zeina Soufan, Senior Anchor, Asharq News This is the full audio from a session at the Annual Meeting of the Global Future Councils 2024 in Dubai on 16, Oct, 2024. Watch it here: Links: Article based on this session: Related podcasts: Check out all our podcasts on : - - : - : - : Join the :

Daphne Koller is an AI pioneer, MacArthur fellow, member of the National Academy of sciences and the founder and CEO of drug discovery and development company insitro. She’ll talk about how attitudes surrounding AI have evolved in her multi-decade career and what's ahead - including how technology is reshaping drug discovery, paving the way for more targeted treatments for the patients who can benefit most. But maximizing AI-powered innovation will depend on better investments in data aggregation, quality and collection and navigating hype cycles that can distract from real impact.  This academic-turned-entrepreneur will also share how founding insitro (and a previous company, Coursera) helped her expand her leadership and management skills, all while driving home the importance of shaping a company culture. At insitro, this focus building a culture that works for unique needs led to a special ‘helix’ inspired-structure that helps discovery biologists, automation engineers and others in the company's cross-functional teams keep communication flowing, problem solve, and prevent the siloes that can hold true innovation back.  Transcript: Insitro: Top Ten Technologies of 2024:

Wars, trade tensions and elections around the world are testing humanity's ability to tackle climate change. Two experts from the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council on the Future of Geopolitics look at the diplomacy and real-world reality of climate change politics and economics, with a particular focus on the global South. This episode is published to coincide with the Annual Meeting of the Global Future Councils, find out more here: Guests: Arun Sharma, senior advisor to the Chairman, Adani Group Varun Sivaram, Senior Fellow for Energy and Climate, Council on Foreign Relations Co-host: Jessica Margolis, Lead, Geopolitical Agenda, World Economic Forum Links: The World Economic Forum’s network of Global Future Councils: Global Future Council on the Future of Geopolitics: Shaping Cooperation in a Fragmenting World: Related podcasts: Check out all our podcasts on : - - : - : - : Join the :

Gaps in the design of everything from AI to pharmaceuticals lead to everything from safety risk to poor health outcomes. Ngina Muntean, the chief of innovation at the United Nations Population Fund, is looking to fix this, making research and design more inclusive for everyone. Her agency launched the Equity 2030 Alliance last year bringing together leaders in tech and pharma and other sectors to share best practices. Its experts in academia, government and business come together to help advocate for new standards in equitable investment, and to champion more gender-inclusive approaches to tech and design. The group is coming upon its first year anniversary which it celebrated during this year's UN General Assembly Week in New York City at the Summit of the Future. Nigina is also a former physician and a public health expert who understands how investments in research and design impact the lives of everyday people, especially those with the least resources. She shares her first-hand perspectives on what’s needed tackle bias in design and what any leader should keep in mind. More about this episode:  2030 Equity Alliance: 2024 World Economic Forum Global Gender Gap: 2024 Sustainable Development Impact Meetings: Related podcasts: Cyber has a skills gap. How approaches to tech, hiring – and retaining women - can help: Build a culture of innovation: HPE's CTO shares what must be in place:      

After the pandemic, Tiya Gordon realized the next global crisis would be climate based. To that end, she’s co-founded It’s Electric, a curbside solution that takes power from buildings, sidestepping the currently time-consuming permitting and installation process that slows the growth of charging stations in cities around the world. She shares how her design background has helped her be clear-eyed on objectives, identify fresh approaches and break down stubborn barriers, all to speed the change needed for the energy transition.  To learn more: Guest: Report: Related podcasts: An energy company is building the world's largest airplane. Here's why: 7 top innovators share strategies that drive cutting edge solutions:

"The global economy - it's a complicated picture, in the sense that it's doing better than we expected just six months ago but it's doing much worse than what it was doing six years ago." World Bank Chief Economist Indermit Gill gives his assessment of the 'glass half-full' global economy. And as the World Economic Forum publishes the latest edition of its Chief Economists Outlook, the Forum's Head of Economic Growth, Revival and Transformation, Aengus Collins, talks us through the highlights. Links: Chief Economists Outlook: Related podcasts: Check out all our podcasts on : - - : - : - : Join the :

A new, critically acclaimed documentary follows the fortunes of online investors, including one who made - and lost - $3 million in cryptocurrency. The director of This Is Not Financial Advice hopes his movie will help people understand the risks and potential benefits of investing, and how they can educate themselves. Co-host: Meagan Andrews, Lead, Capital Market Initiatives, World Economic Forum Guest: Chris Temple, Film Director at Optimist Links: Centre for Financial and Monetary Systems: Film website: Related podcasts: Check out all our podcasts on : - - : - : - : Join the :

Jeremy Allaire is the co-founder and CEO of Circle, a global financial technology firm that operates one of the largest dollar digital currency payment systems in the world -- USDC. Stablecoin is already seeing billions of digital dollars in economic activity and he talks about what we can expect next, including emerging applications for humanitarian aid. He’ll talk about Circle’s special partnership with the refugee agency UNHCR, and how new approaches for social impact could be more and more important as political strife and climate change drive up the numbers of unbanked around the world.  Transcript: More about this episode: Circle: 

As investors pour money into companies developing or deploying artificial intelligence, what are the steps they should be taking to ensure that AI is safe and responsible? The Responsible AI Playbook for Investors published by the World Economic Forum and pension fund CPP Investments, sets out real-world examples of how investors can - and must - use their position to promote responsible AI. Guest: , Managing Director, Head of Strategy Execution & Relationship Management, CPP Investments Links: Responsible AI Playbook for Investors: Related podcasts: Check out all our podcasts on : - - : - : - : Join the :

Ty Wiggins coaches leaders during the hardest moment in their careers – the shift from mere mortal to CEO. He drives the CEO and executive transition practice at consultancy Russell Reynolds and has had a backstage pass to what works (and what doesn’t) in the top role. He’s put what he’s leaned into a new book, The New CEO, and in this wide-ranging interview, he shares tactical advice that can help any leader adjust, from what to do in the first 100 days, how to get more honest feedback from your team, common pitfalls to avoid, the traits effective leaders must develop and how leaders can adjust to a new reality where your words have outsized impact and few people tell you “no.” Related links:  The New CEO:

How can cities - with ever growing populations - tackle air deadly pollution and reduce greenhouse gas emissions? Breathe Cities is a global network of cities sharing data, expertise and experience to do just that. Guest: Jaime Pumarejo, Executive Director of Breathe Cities. Links: Breathe Cities: GAEA - Giving to Amplify Earth Action: Alliance for Clean Air: World Economic Forum Centre for Nature and Climate: Related podcasts: Check out all our podcasts on : - - : - : - : Join the :

Artificial intelligence has the potential to massively improve human health: from developing new drugs to providing more accurate diagnoses and helping people who live with severe disabilities. But AI also has the potential, if used wrongly or governed badly, to make life worse for people dealing with health problems. In this episode, we hear from people on the front lines of the technology. This episode was first published on 29 May, 2024. Radio Davos will resume new weekly podcasts from September 2024. Speakers: Victor Pineda, president and founder of the Alexandra Reeve Givens , CEO, Chris Mansi, CEO, Daphne Koller, founder and CEO of Links: Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution: AI Governance Alliance: Centre for Health and Healthcare: Related podcasts: Check out all our podcasts on : - - : - : - : Join the :

Theatre director Jude Kelly founded the Women of the World (WOW) Festival almost two decades ago to spur conversations about women, men and feminism. WOW is now a global phenomenon, but does the rise of online misogyny pose a threat to progress on gender equality. Jude Kelly, who spoke to Radio Davos on World Women's Day 2024, says why it is vital to include men in the conversations about an issue that affects us all. This episode was first published on 28 March, 2024. Radio Davos will resume new weekly podcasts from September 2024. Links: WOW Foundation: Gender Gap Report: Podcasts: Check out all our podcasts on : - - : - : - : Join the :

What's Dwight from The Office doing in the metaverse? Actor Rainn Wilson joins us in avatar form to check out a virtual world created by the World Economic Forum that aims to raise awareness of the impact of climate change on the Arctic and the rest of the world. We also hear from Gail Whiteman, Professor of Sustainability at the University of Exeter Business School, and Executive Director of Arctic Basecamp on her hopes for action to stop the Earth reaching disastrous tipping points. And Rebecca Ivey, head of the Global Collaboration Village, tells us how the metaverse can bring people together in a unique way. Watch the video: This episode was first published on 15 January, 2024. Radio Davos will resume new weekly podcasts from September 2024. Links: Global Collaboration Village: Arctic Basecamp: Related episodes: For a longer interview with Rainn Wilson and Gail Whiteman, listen to our sister podcast, Meet the Leader: Our visit into an earlier version of the Global Collaboration Village: And more... More podcasts Check out all our podcasts on : - : - : - : - : Join the :

For half a century, Nile Rodgers has been making hit records that have touched people's hearts around the world. The creative force behind disco pioneers Chic, and some of the best known songs of David Bowie, Madonna and Beyoncé, tells us the definition of an artist: someone whose work "speaks to the souls of a million strangers". But what if generative AI can make music that's just as good? Is AI a threat or a blessing to art and human expression? We also hear from the head of the Hollywood actors' union on why moviemakers went on strike over the threat posed by AI. And from Refik Anadol, a leading light in AI-generated art. This episode was first published on 4 April, 2024. Radio Davos will resume new weekly podcasts from September 2024. Guests: , National Executive Director and Chief Negotiator of the actors’ union SAG-AFTRA  Media Artist and Director, Refik Anadol Studio , musician and founder of the We Are Family Foundation Watch: Nile Rodgers interview:  Podcasts: Check out all our podcasts on :  -  - :  - :   - :  Join the : 

Going green - in energy, agriculture, industry and elsewhere - will have costs and benefits, so how can we ensure the poorest don't pay the price or miss out on the opportunities? A new report from the World Economic Forum has defined six 'archetype' countries and looks at the differing challenges across the globe, and what policymakers need to know to achieve an 'equitable transition'. Guest: Tarini Fernando, Lead, Equitable Transition, World Economic Forum Links: Accelerating an Equitable Transition: A Data-Driven Approach: Related articles: How do we ensure the green transition doesn't penalize the poorest? 5 key insights into how to accelerate an equitable energy transition: Why the global energy transition must be just and equitable: Why it's vital to take a people-centred approach to equitable energy transitions: Related podcasts:

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies is powered by 17 million volunteers in 191 counties.. At its helm is Jagan Chapagain, a man who started himself at the organization as a teenaged volunteer in Nepal, wanting to do good. He returned after college and has been with the organization ever since, eventually serving in a number of leadership roles until he was appointed to his current position of chief executive officer and secretary general in February 2020. In this wide-ranging conversation, he sets the stage for humanitarian challenges ithe world faces as well as how the IFRC is developing solutions to prevent the next crisis from occurring. He'll also share a first-of-its-kind for the humanitarian sector insurance solution that can transform disaster preparedness and resilience. But he'll also share what any organization can learn from the IFRC on engaging and motivating teams -- and the simple lessons any leader can keep in mind. Transcript: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/meet-the-leader/episodes/jagan-chapagain-red-cross-red-crescent-disaster-insurance To learn more about IFRC: https://www.ifrc.org/ To learn more about IFRC-DERF insurance: https://www.ifrc.org/happening-now/emergency-appeals/disaster-response-emergency-fund-dref/dref-insurance Other related podcasts: Helping the unprecedented number of forcibly displaced: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/meet-the-leader/episodes/kelly-clements-unhcr-refugee/ : https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/meet-the-leader/episodes/speak-effectively-takeaways-from-scientist-turned-comms-founder/

Incubated at the World Economic Forum, the Global Impact Coalition (GIC) is an organisation that pools the resources of major chemicals companies to develop ways of making their industry more sustainable. We hear from Charlie Tan, CEO of the GIC, and from two technical experts at the GIC's Research and Development Hub at Netherlands-based research centre TNO. Speakers: Jan Harm Urbanus, Lead Scientist Circular Plastics, TNO Hella Koops, Senior Project Manager and Cluster Lead Circular Plastics, TNO Charlie Tan, CEO, Global Impact Coalition Links: Centre for Energy and Materials - World Economic Forum: GIC: TNO: Related podcasts: Check out all our podcasts on : - - : - : - : Join the :

As populists are on the rise in many countries, how should the moderates respond? We hear from Yair Zivan, the author of a new book called "The Centre Must Hold", who argues that centrism is more than just the mid-point between two extremes, and can be a radical force for good. Links: “The Centre Must Hold: Why Centrism is the Answer to Extremism and Polarisation,” edited by Yair Zivan: Essay by World Economic Forum President Borge Brende: The Second Coming, poem by WB Yeats: Related podcasts: Check out all our podcasts on : - - : - : - : Join the :

Amid signs of potential economic optimism, a complex array of risks threatens to derail progress. From tackling climate emergencies, to rising geopolitical tensions and the accelerating infodemic, how can global collaboration and innovation protect and propel economic growth? This is the full audio from a session at the Annual Meeting of the New Champions (AMNC24) on June 26, 2024. Watch it here: Speakers: Peng Sen, President, China Society of Economic Reform (CSER) Michael Wang, Anchor, Global Business and BizTalk, China Global Television Network (CGTN) Busi Mabuza, Chairperson, Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa Andre Hoffmann, Chairman, Massellaz Mohamad Al-Ississ, Minister of Finance, Ministry of Finance of Jordan Links: Annual Meeting of the New Champions - Next Frontiers for Growth, 25–27 June, 2024, Dalian, China: Centre for the New Economy and Society: Podcasts: Check out all our podcasts on : - - : - : - : Join the :

OakNorth Bank is a digital commercial bank founded by serial entrepreneurs who know firsthand the role advice and expertise plays in growing vibrant businesses. To that end, OakNorth has developed a special 'mentorpreneurship' program with the London School of Economics, all to help build socially-conscious businesses through mentoring. Meet the Leader talked to co-founder Rishi Khosla about what traits great mentors share and how anyone can make the most of the expertise around them. He also shared why it can be powerful to consider mentorship as a way to build your own personal board of directors, people who can give you the range of measured, honest insights that aren't often easy for top leaders to find any other way. To learn more: This episode's Transcript: "Mentorpreneurship" at the London School of Economics: OakNorth: Related podcasts: 9 leaders from Microsoft, IKEA and more share advice for new grads: Workers have changed - How leaders must adapt: Randstad's Sander Van't Launch your brainchild: Raise Our Voice Australia's Ashleigh Streeter-Jones:

Climate change is an extremely serious issue, but can comedy help us cope with - and communicate about - it? We hear from the University of Colorado, Boulder where students can take a course in ‘climate comedy’ that ends in them performing on stage in a comedy club. And we unpack the power of cartoons from the World Economic Forum’s climate ‘cartoonathon’. Thumbnail image: Wade Kimbrough (with the help of A.I.) The caption reads: "Changing paths? That's not in this quarter's budget." Guests: , Professor, Director of Graduate Studies in Theatre & Performance Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder: , Professor, , University of Colorado, Boulder Gill Einhorn, Head, Innovation and Transformation, Centre for Nature and Climate, World Economic Forum John Letzing, Digital Editor, Strategic Intelligence, World Economic Forum Links: Inside the Greenhouse: 2024 Inside the Greenhouse Climate Comedy Special: Earth Decides: Cartoonathon: Podcasts: Check out all our podcasts on : - - : - : - : Join the :

What’s the health condition that affects us all, but is often seen as an add-on for healthcare - and how much is this neglect costing the economy? Oral diseases affect half the world's population and, according to a new report, have knock-on costs to the economy worth $710 billion every year. Marko Vujicic of the American Dental Association joins us to discuss 'The Economic Rationale for a Global Commitment to Invest in Oral Health'. Links: The Economic Rationale for a Global Commitment to Invest in Oral Health: Half the world is affected by oral disease – here’s how we can tackle this unmet healthcare need: Global Health Equity Network: Related podcasts: Check out all our podcasts on : - - : - : - : Join the :

Florian Hoffman is the Founder of The Do, a platform for tomorrow’s entrepreneurs that runs a special 'anti-business' business school focused on helping leaders implement real solutions. He shares why leaders need to shift how they motivate and inspire, moving from driving a 'command and control' mindset' to driving a movement that connects with hearts and minds. He explains why this approach helps leaders tackle apathy and resistance to change, and how it will be all the more important given increasingly fast cycles of innovation. To learn more: About this episode:  Related podcasts:

Mark Lundstrom is the CEO and founder of energy company Radia. He'll explain why he's building the world's largest plane --and how a unique approach to making offshore wind turbines onshore can speed progress on tackling emissions. He'll also share why this company is focused on using just existing technologies. He'll explain why this approach can actually lead to a host of new solutions for innovators and tackle big challenges more quickly -- and can be especially powerful as leaders consider how to efficiently tackle sustainability issues.  To learn more:  World Economic Forum Energy Transitions Index:  Radia:  Related podcasts Check out all our podcasts on :  -   - :   - :   - :  Join the : 

Deglobalization, reglobalization, decoupling, de-risking, reshoring friend-shoring, export bans, tariffs and sanctions - is global trade going into reverse, or simply into a new phase? As the World Economic Forum hosts the Annual Meeting of the New Champions in China, we ask an expert about the state of global trade and where it might be heading. Guest: Simon Evenett, founder of the . Links: Annual Meeting of the New Champions - Next Frontiers for Growth, 25–27 June, 2024, Dalian, China: Geopolitical Rivalry and Business: 10 Recommendations for Policy Design: Forum’s Global Future Council on the Future of Trade and Investment: Centre for Regions, Trade & Geopolitics: Related podcasts: Check out all our podcasts on : - - : - : - : Join the :

Soichi Noguchi is a former astronaut with the Japanese space agency JAXA who has flown to space not once but 3 times. He’ll talk about the unique training these astronauts undergo - and the special lessons these trainings can teach any team about tapping each individual's expertise and what's needed to be a great leader and a great follower. He has since worked in a number of capacities, including as a professor at the University of Tokyo and an executive fellow at the Institute for International Socio-Economic Studies. He’ll share what he’s focused on now - and how space can help us better live on Earth.  

As the World Economic Forum convenes the 'Annual Meeting of the New Champions' in China, this expert helps us better understand how the Asian powerhouse sees its place in the world. With Markus Herrmann, the Swiss-Chinese co-founder of the consultancy. Links: Annual Meeting of the New Champions - Next Frontiers for Growth, 25–27 June 2024: Centre for Regions, Trade and Geopolitics: Related podcasts: Check out all our podcasts on : - - : - : - : Join the :

The Global Gender Gap Index annually benchmarks the current state and evolution of gender parity across four key dimensions (Economic Participation and Opportunity, Educational Attainment, Health and Survival, and Political Empowerment). It is the longest-standing index tracking the progress of numerous countries’ efforts towards closing these gaps over time since its inception in 2006. Forum Managing Director Saadia Zahidi talks us through the main finding of the Global Gender Gap Report 2024 and how she sees the progress and challenges in closing the gender gap worldwide. Links: Global Gender Gap Report 2024: Centre for New Economy and Society: Related podcasts: Check out all our podcasts on : - - : - : - : Join the :

With hacking, it’s always a matter of when, not if. But many leaders believe cyber skills gaps could leave their organization vulnerable. In fact, nearly 80% of respondents surveyed in our 2024 Cybersecurity Outlook said their organizations do not have the in-house skills to meet their cybersecurity objectives. Given tech’s fast pace of growth and change, making opportunities available more widely will be critical bridging that skills gap in the sector, while also driving opportunity and economies in general. Petra Jenner, senior vice president and general manager at cyber and analytics company Splunk shares how leaders can expand talent pools to new groups (including women and those with non-traditional backgrounds) and how to retain people skilled in such a stressful field. This episode leverages the following research: Global Gender Gap 2024: Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2024: Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2023:  https://www.weforum.org/publications/global-cybersecurity-outlook-2023/  

Today's grads will live longer, face faster cycles of technological change and drive careers like we've never seen. This special compilation episode taps top leaders from companies like Intel, Microsoft, Ingka Group and more on the unique ways they can make the most of the first days of their careers. From remembering to "take your space" to finding time to "browse", they share the advice that has shaped them and that they wish they knew sooner.  In this episode: Olajumoke Adekeye, Founder, Young Business Agency; Ulrika Biesèrt, CHRO, INGKA Group; Sander van't Noordende, CEO, Randstad; Rishi Khosla, Co-founder and CEO of OakNorth; Annette Mosman, APG; Madison O'Brien, Teamgage; Christy Pambianchi, Chief People Officer, Intel; Brad Smith, President, Microsoft. 

Climate 'tipping points' are the dangerous phenomena that could suddenly make climate change even worse than it is already: melting ice sheets that could change ocean currents, thawing permafrost that releases vast amounts of methane, or rainforests turning into dry savannah - events that could completely destabilise the global environment and would be hard or impossible to reverse. But, according to a growing number of climate scientists, there is also the prospect of ‘positive tipping points’. Things that can happen to speed up the reduction in greenhouse gas emissions in ways that humanity has so far failed to achieve. One of those is Tim Lenton, Professor of Climate Change and Earth System Science at the University of Exeter. As you will hear in the interview, other climate experts use terms such as 'social tipping points' or 'sensitive intervention points' - Professor Lenton says these are similar concepts that altogether should dispel the notion that we are doomed by climate change. Links: First Movers Coalition: Tim Lenton at the University of Exeter: Related Podcasts: Related videos: Check out all our podcasts on : - - : - : - : Join the :

Artificial intelligence has the potential to massively improve human health: from developing new drugs to providing more accurate diagnoses and helping people who live with severe disabilities. But AI also has the potential, if used wrongly or governed badly, to make life worse for people dealing with health problems. In this episode, we hear from people on the front lines of the technology. Speakers: Victor Pineda, president and founder of the Alexandra Reeve Givens , CEO, Chris Mansi, CEO, Daphne Koller, founder and CEO of Links: Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution: AI Governance Alliance: Centre for Health and Healthcare: Related podcasts: Check out all our podcasts on : - - : - : - : Join the :

With the pandemic well behind us, international travel has bounced back. The World Economic Forum’s Travel and Tourism Development Index, a major survey of the state of the sector, gives a clear picture of how things look around the world. Maksim Soshkim, who leads much of the Forum’s work on the issue tells us the headlines, and Jacqueline Gifford, Editor-in-Chief of Travel + Leisure magazine, gives her take on the state of the travel scene. One of the key areas the TTDI looks at is sustainability - the impact of travel and tourism on the environment and local communities. And in this episode we hear from two people engaged in making tourism more sustainable: a hotel company taking action across its supply chain, and the head of tourism for Rwanda, where income from foreign visitors helps conserve a unique ecosystem and its endangered mountain gorillas. Speakers: Maksim Soshkin, Centre for Energy and Materials, World Economic Forum Jacqueline Gifford, Editor-in-Chief, Travel + Leisure Neil Jacobs, CEO, Six Senses Hotels Resorts Spas Michaella Rugwizangoga, Chief Tourism Officer, Rwanda Links: Travel and Tourism Development Index: Global Future Council on the Future of Sustainable Tourism: Related podcasts: Thumbnail photo: Samrat Khadka on Unsplash Check out all our podcasts on : - - : - : - : Join the :

As Microsoft’s vice chair and president, Brad Smith leads a team of professionals across business, legal and corporate affairs, tackling issues that stand at the crossroads of technology and society. In this wide-ranging discussion recorded at the Annual Meeting in Davos, he shares how these issues have shaped his thoughts on innovation and how they have informed his book and podcast Tools & Weapons. The 30-year Microsoft veteran also shares the career lessons that have changed him, how he leverages AI in his everyday work, why he thinks leaders must learn to be better storytellers and the tech blindspots they'd do well to avoid.

The Netflix documentary 'The Tinder Swindler' is a mind-boggling case of so-called 'romance fraud' in which a charming, handsome - and apparently very rich - man meets women on a dating app - gets them to fall in love with him - and then cons them out of lots of money. Cecilie Fjellhøy is the Norwegian woman at the centre of the documentary whose life was torn apart by the actions of a conman. A survivor of romance fraud on a grand scale, she now advocates for the rights of, and support for, others who find themselves in similar grim circumstances. We also hear from Sean Doyle, who works at the World Economic Forum’s Centre for Cybersecurity, on just how widespread romance fraud really is, why it’s a multinational, multi-billion form of cyber crime, and what is being done to combat it. Links: Centre for Cybersecurity: Cybercrime Atlas: 's organisation LoveSaid: The Tinder Swindler documentary: Related podcasts: Check out all our podcasts on : - - : - : - : Join the :

Living longer than ever will mean we’ll need to prepare for our later years in ways we've never done before. While financial education and making savings last is always paramount, the World Economic Forum's recent Longevity Principles report drives home the need to make sure we also prepare to live those extended years with purpose, changing the way we approach everything from careers to community. Annette Mosman, the CEO of APG (one of the world’s largest pension investors) shares how she approaches the long-term as well as the trends she sees on the horizon -- and how they could change how workers and leaders take on everything from training to career development and advancement. 

'Spatial computing', 'blended reality', 'the metaverse'. For those of us who still use screens and keyboards to access the digital world, those phrases might not mean very much. But many experts believe the '2D' internet will soon be a thing of the past, and we will all be, one way or another, in a 3D metaverse. With Apple's Vision Pro headset renewing interest in virtual reality, we speak to two proponents of the metaverse who see both huge opportunities and significant risks. Guests: Yonatan Raz-Fridman, CEO of Supersocial and host of the podcast Brittan Heller, lecturer on International Law, Technology, and Human Rights, Stanford University. Links: Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Metaverse Identity: Defining the Self in a Blended Reality: Navigating the Industrial Metaverse: A Blueprint for Future Innovations: Related podcasts: Check out all our podcasts on : - - : - : - : Join the :

Mining is an industry that many of us probably rarely think about, but one that provides the raw materials for so many of the things we use, not least the modern technologies such as smart phones and electric vehicles that require certain minerals that are not always in abundant supply. The International Energy Agency predicts that the demand for minerals will double by 2040. So how can we meet that demand in the most energy efficient and sustainable way? UpLink, the open innovation platform of the World Economic Forum, is inviting entrepreneurs who have answers to that question to take part in its Sustainable Mining Challenge - a competition that aims to pick the most promising startups in the field. On this episode we speak to Vivek Salgaocar, the founder of Prospect Innovation, which is the leading funder and business partner of the Sustainable Mining Challenge, and to Megan O'Connor, CEO and Co-founder of Nth Cycle, a company which is innovating in ways to better recycle mining waste. This podcast is published around the World Economic Forum's Special Meeting on Global Collaboration, Growth and Energy for Development. Find more information at and across social media using the hashtag #specialmeeting24. Links: UpLink Mining Challenge: Related podcasts: Check out all our podcasts on : - - : - : - : Join the :

Norsk Hydro was founded nearly 120 years ago to tackle global famine. Today, it has evolved to take on a bigger challenge: climate change. The company focuses on low- and no-carbon aluminium, a material that will be key in electric vehicles, construction and comprises 2% of emissions. CEO Hilde Merete Aasheim shares the unique technologies and partnerships that are helping to drive a green energy transition. She also takes us through her unique path to the top job, one that has spanned a range of roles, from plant manager to auditor to HR leader. She shares how seemingly unrelated roles can help you better understand yourself and how you can contribute as a leader -- better motivating people and tapping the full capabilities of your team.  This episode was recorded at the Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, 2024. 

What are the new technologies that can help us reach net zero? And how do we bring them to scale fast enough? World Economic Forum Managing Director Jeremy Jurgens joins us to talk about the Advanced Energy Solutions community, and we hear from three of its members, from widely different sectors and geographies, implementing the energy solutions of tomorrow. Guests: Ann Mettler, Vice President, Europe, Breakthrough Energy VK Samudrala, President, Amara Raja Energy & Mobility Maarten Michielssens, Founder and CEO, EnergyVision Special Meeting This episode is related to the Forum’s Special Meeting on Global Cooperation, Growth and Energy for Development held in Riyadh on 28-29 April 2024. Links: Advanced Energy Solutions community: Related podcasts: Check out all our podcasts on : - - : - : - : Join the :

SUGI is a unique global organization that brings pocket forests -- ultra-dense, biodiverse forests leveraging the proven Japanese Miyawaki Method -- to cities all over the world. The group has built 200 pocket forests in 42 cities so far, with each providing a key form of "urban acupuncture" that can protect biodiversity, restore ecosystems, and even better reconnect people to nature. Founder and CEO Elise Van Middelem shares more about SUGi and how it got started - and the unique ways these projects are reviving places from England to Cameroon.  This interview was recorded at the Urban Transformation Summit in Detroit, Michigan in October 2023. 

In a polarised world, with the most powerful nations and the UN unable to prevent or end many wars, could the so-called 'middle powers' step up? This week's two guests, both members of the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council on Geopolitics, think so, and say those countries might even consider setting up an 'M-10' of middle powers seeking to resolve conflicts and other problems. This podcast is published ahead of the World Economic Forum's Special Meeting on Global Collaboration, Growth and Energy for Development. Find more information at and across social media using the hashtag #specialmeeting24. Guests: Susana Malcorra, Senior Advisor at Spain’s IE University and former Argentinian foreign minister and UN Secretary General Chief of Staff. Bruce Jones, Senior Fellow with The Brookings Institution Co-host: Nicolai Ruge, Lead, Geopolitics and Trade at the World Economic Forum. Links: Davos 2024 session: Global Future Council on the Future of Geopolitics: Shaping Cooperation in a Fragmenting World: Special Meeting on Global Collaboration, Growth and Energy for Development: Related podcasts: Check out all our podcasts on : - - : - : - : Join the :

What workers want - and what keeps them motivated - has changed drastically in recent years. And with big technological and demographic shifts driving labor shortages, knowing how to both retrain and retain your workforce will be more important than ever. Randstad CEO Sander Van't Noordende will share insights from the talent firm's annual Workmonitor survey, giving a one-of-a-kind snapshot on how workers are thinking about everything from ambition, to purpose, to flexibility and pay. He'll also share what new habits leaders will need to adopt (including the value of microfeedback) and how leaders should be approaching everything from how they connect with workers to how they future proof their talent pipelines.  Recorded at the Annual Meeting in Davos, 2024.  Transcript here:

“Climate Capitalism is an antidote to the dominant narrative that because we’ve ignored the climate crisis for so long, it will soon be too late. While it’s true that we’ve not done enough yet, we’re nowhere close to being too late.” So says , Bloomberg’s senior climate reporter and host of the podcast Zero, in his new book Climate Capitalism, which looks at ways business and industry and finance can make, and in some cases are making, real progress on climate change. Mentioned in this episode: Links: Related podcasts: Check out all our podcasts on : - - : - : - : Join the :

For half a century, Nile Rodgers has been making hit records that have touched people's hearts around the world. The creative force behind disco pioneers Chic, and some of the best known songs of David Bowie, Madonna and Beyoncé, tells us the definition of an artist: someone whose work "speaks to the souls of a million strangers". But what if generative AI can make music that's just as good? Is AI a threat or a blessing to art and human expression? We also hear from the head of the Hollywood actors' union on why moviemakers went on strike over the threat posed by AI. And from Refik Anadol, a leading light in AI-generated art. Guests: , National Executive Director and Chief Negotiator of the actors’ union SAG-AFTRA Media Artist and Director, Refik Anadol Studio , musician and founder of the We Are Family Foundation Watch: Nile Rodgers interview: Podcasts: Check out all our podcasts on : - - : - : - : Join the :

As a busy mom working in tech, Ritu Narayan understood the chaos school logistics can bring to kids and parents. Her personal experience inspired her to found Zum, a startup providing an end-to-end solution for districts with optimized bus routes, one including bus fleets to match different-sized schools, and an approach that makes school transit transparent and efficient for the first time in a century. The startup was launched originally as an on-demand service and she shares the key questions that helped her pivot the company for scale -- questions that can help any founder make a big shift happen. She also discusses the unexpected impact family logistics can have on parents (such unpredictability can nudge some moms out of the workforce altogether) and how tackling that can boost opportunity for parents and kids alike. This episode was recorded at the World Economic Forum's Urban Transformation Summit in Detroit in October 2023. 

Theatre director Jude Kelly founded the Women of the World (WOW) Festival almost two decades ago to spur conversations about women, men and feminism. WOW is now a global phenomenon, but does the rise of online misogyny pose a threat to progress on gender equality. Jude Kelly, who spoke to Radio Davos on World Women's Day 2024, says why it is vital to include men in the conversations about an issue that affects us all. Links: WOW Foundation: Gender Gap Report: Podcasts: Check out all our podcasts on : - - : - : - : Join the :

A year ago in Davos, energy - particularly the disruption to supply and prices caused by the war in Ukraine - was a top issue at the Forum's Annual Meeting and on Radio Davos we invited two experts in to set out the top lines of the energy discussion. Roberto Bocca, who heads up energy at the World Economic Forum, and John Defterios, a business professor and former CNN journalist, return this year, as war is an even bigger issue. They also discuss the 'energy transition', especially how that might look in the global South, and they address what was the top issue at this year's Davos: artificial intelligence - which many people believe could play a central role in the energy transition, but which is also itself creating a surge in demand for energy to power all the compute needed to create AI. Guests: Roberto Bocca: John Defterios: Mentioned in this episode: Nuclear Energy Summit 2024 - 21 March: SDG-7: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all: Links: Centre for Energy and Materials: Global Future Council on the Future of Energy Transition: Related podcasts: A common good? The companies making the AI products we'll soon all be using: Related sessions from Davos 2024: Building Equitable Transitions: Green and Fair: Climate and Nature: Seed Capital Needed: Live from the Deep Sea: Podcast: Davos 2024: Live from the Deep Sea: Catch up on all the action from Davos at and across social media using the hashtag #WEF24. Check out all our podcasts on : - - : - : - : Join the :

Kat Bruce is an eco-entrepreneur who founded NatureMetrics, one of the world's leading nature technology companies measuring the very tiny traces of DNA that organisms leave in the air, water and soil. She’s also a former jungle explorer who has led expeditions in the Amazon, riding on balsa rafts she’s made herself and rowing trips in roiling seas with near strangers. She shares how those experiences  have helped her to be a better leader: to be reflective, to understand different people’s unique roles in a team, and to make difficult choices quickly. She also shares the potential environmental DNA provides, and why more leaders than ever are understanding the need to leverage data to tackle their environmental impacts. 

What's in store for 2024? Ian Bremmer's political risk consultancy predicts an 'annus horribilis' but Exponential View's Azeem Azhar says we are in an 'incredible decade'. So is the state of the world 'glass half empty, or half full'? And in an uncertain world, Oxford University's Rachel Botsman, tells why trust is so vital, and how it can be re-built, or rather, re-earned. Guests: Ian Bremmer: Rachel Botsman: Azeem Azhar: World Economic Forum Strategic Intelligence: World Economic Forum Global Risks Report 2024: Related podcasts: Check out all our podcasts on : - - : - : - : - : Join the :

Forget snacks and gym memberships: Today's worker wants to know you value their family.    When Reshma Saujani founded Moms First -- a movement to drive paid leave for families --she already had a successful non-profit under her belt in Girls Who Code. But she quickly learned that advocating for moms and parents uncovers a host of structural barriers that hold back both women and families. In a special conversation recorded at the 2024 Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, she shared how leaders will need to focus on their teams' families to stay competitive and to bridge a host of gaps - including gender pay gaps and labor shortages coming down the line. She also shared how a special AI-powered tool her organization built -- PaidLeave.AI -- is connecting thousands to benefits in New York State and showing how new technologies can expand opportunity in surprising ways. 

The UNHCR, cares for 114 million refugees and displaced people worldwide. Filippo Grandi, the head of the United Nations refugee agency, says that number could double in a decade if the world cannot find ways to stop war. Mentioned in this episode: : https://www.weforum.org/projects/the-refugee-employment-and-employability-initiative/ Read more: Catch up on all the action from Davos at and across social media using the hashtag #WEF24. Related podcasts: Check out all our podcasts on : - - : - : - : - : Join the :

If 2023 was the year we all got familiar with generative AI, is 2024 the year when governments will act on the governance of this powerful technology? At Davos 2024 we spoke to these experts, from the industry and civil society: Alexandra Reeve Givens, CEO, Center for Democracy & Technology Aidan Gomez, Co-founder and CEO of Cohere Anna Makanju, Vice President of Global Affairs, OpenAI Catch up on all the action from Davos at and across social media using the hashtag #WEF24. World Economic Forum's AI Governance Alliance: Related podcasts: Check out all our podcasts on : - - : - : - : - : Join the :

Where do you see yourself and your team a year from now? How can you maximize tech - and mitigate its risks? How can you stay focused despite increasing geopolitical tensions? What impacts will small decisions now have in 5 to 10 years? In this special compilation episode of Meet The Leader recorded at the Annual Meeting in Davos, heads of top companies, civil society organizations and non-profits shared what leaders should prioritize this year. They share questions to ask yourself, how to set your objectives, ways to better serve your team, the risks to keep on your radar and ways to build your vision for the long term. In this episode:  Sander van 't Noordende, CEO, Randstad Fidelma Russo, CTO, HPE Milton Cheng, Global Chair, Baker McKenzie Daphne Koller, CEO, Insitro Hilde Merete Aasheim, CEO, Norsk Hydro Petra Jenner, senior vice president and general manager, Splunk  Christy Hoffman, General Secretary, UNI Global  Reshma Saujani, founder, MomsFirst Olajumoke Adekeye, Founders, Young Business Agency Catalina Cock Duque, Co-Founder and President, Fundacion Mi Sangre Rudayna Abdo, founder, Thaki Jagan Chapagain, Secretary-General, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)

Technology is revolutionizing global commerce and investment, and digitalizing the trade ecosystem holds the potential to increase trade by nearly $9 trillion by 2026 within the G7 alone. On the eve of the World Trade Organisation's 13th Ministerial Conference, MC13 (26-29 February, 2024) in Abu Dhabi, we speak to the event's host, UAE Minister of State for Trade Thani Ahmed Al Zeyoudi about MC13 and the TradeTech initiative that the UAE is pursuing with the World Economic Forum. We also hear from WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on her hopes for MC13, and from Vincent Clerc, Chief Executive Officer, A.P. Møller-Maersk, with his views on trade tech. Read more about the TradeTech initiative: and the TradeTech Forum, 27 February, 2024: Read Thani Ahmed Al Zeyoudi's Agenda blog: The WTO's 13th Ministerial Conference, 26-29 February, 2024: Watch this session from Davos 2024: Watch Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Thani Ahmed Al Zeyoudi at this Davos Press Conference: Catch up on all the action from Davos at and across social media using the hashtag #WEF24. Check out all our podcasts on : - - : - : - : - : Join the :

"This is going to be the most transformational moment, not just in technology, but in culture and politics of all of our lifetimes." Three AI pioneers, all of them in  most influential people in AI, share their views on the past, present and future of this transformational technology. Guests: Aiden Gomez, Co-Founder and CEO, Cohere Mustafa Suleyman, Co-Founder and CEO, Inflection AI Yann LeCun, Chief AI Scientist, Meta World Economic Forum's AI Governance Alliance:  Related podcasts: Check out all our podcasts on :  -  - :  - :   - :   - :  Join the : 

In an episode recorded before the escalation of conflict in the Middle East, we hear from two private-sector companies involved in the distribution of food, about how they manage to operate in a war zone like Yemen, which has been in a state of civil war since 2015. Guests: Mohamed Nabil Hayel Saeed, Senior Strategic Advisor, HSA Niels Hougaard, Managing Director, Tetra Pak Arabia Check out all our podcasts on : - - : - : - : - : Join the :

What do social media content creators make of Davos? We speak to three YouTubers - with a collective audience in the millions - who were given full access to the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting 2024 to ask who they met and what stories they would be telling. Featuring: Jacob Beautemps, @BreakingLab Adanna Steinacker, @houseofadanna Gohar Khan, @goharsguide Catch up on all the action from Davos at and across social media using the hashtag #WEF24. Check out all our podcasts on : - - : - : - : - : Join the :

What’s next for the year ahead? Is a much-promised “soft landing” for certain economies possible? And what new impacts can we expect from inflation? Meet The Leader caught up with International Monetary Fund managing director Kristalina Georgieva at the Annual Meeting in Davos to get her take on what's ahead, including how upcoming elections and other global challenges could make some moves especially tricky in 2024. She discusses the findings of a new IMF report exploring how AI will impact jobs in different economies around the world in the decades to come -- and how leaders can get prepared now. She also shares the mindsets and approaches that can help leaders stay nimble in what could be an unpredictable year -- along with what gives this "die hard" optimist hope. 

The World Economic Forum just held its Annual Meeting - but what impact will it have on the world beyond Davos? The people who lead the Forum's work throughout the year tackling the world's most important issues pick the highlights of the week that show how Davos 2024 will make a positive impact. And we hear clips from some of the most impactful discussions from the Congress Centre. Davos 2024 sessions featured in this episode: Forum reports and initiatives mentioned in the episode: - - - . Catch up on all the action from Davos at and across social media using the hashtag #WEF24. Related podcasts: Radio Davos Meet the Leader Agenda Dialogues Check out all our podcasts on : - : - : - : - : Join the :

New approaches to partnering and collaboration will be key to tackling climate action. This will require new mindsets, new systems and connecting with people and groups you might have otherwise overlooked. To better understand how collaboration is evolving, this week’s episode talks to Chief Procurement Offers, leaders who do more than acquire goods and services, but who increasingly work across the business and hold a holistic perspective, exposed to everything from the bottom line to changing trade rules, innovations and shifting geopolitical contexts. They share methods they use to collaborate in new ways -- practices any leader can put to work to push climate action forward. In this episode:  Rachael De Renzy Channer, Global Head of Sustainability, Egon Zehnder  Andrea Fuder,  Chief Procurement Officer, Volvo Group  Björn Stenecker, Chief Procurement Officer, Vattenfall  Dan Bartel, Chief Procurement Officer, Schneider Electric

Canadian-Pakistani filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy interviews fashion designer Diane von Fürstenberg about the designer's life and one-of-a-kind perspective. The spirited, wide-ranging conversation goes beyond the creation of the famous wrap dress and how Furstenburg built one of the world's most recognizable brands, to explore how these two strong female creatives open doors for others and navigate challenges in their industries.  Recorded at the Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland January 18, 2024.  Watch the full session here: https://www.weforum.org/events/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2024/sessions/wrapped-in-leadership    

Intel Chief Executive Officer Pat Gelsinger talks with World Economic Forum Executive Chairman Klaus Schwab in this wide ranging conversation on technology, leading edge semiconductor production and the trends shaping the year ahead. Recorded January 17, 2024. Watch the session here: ---- Check out all our podcasts on :  - : - : - : - : Join the :

Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella speaks to World Economic Forum Executive Chairman Klaus Schwab in a special wide ranging conversation covering how AI will transform science, new game-changing technologies that will drive progress, and more. This conversation was recorded at the Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland. Recorded January 16, 2024.  Watch the session here: https://www.weforum.org/events/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2024/sessions/a-conversation-with-satya-nadella-and-klaus-schwab

What's Dwight from The Office doing in the metaverse? Actor Rainn Wilson joins us, in avatar form, to check out a virtual world created by the World Economic Forum that aims to raise awareness of the impact of climate change on the Arctic and the rest of the world. We also hear from Gail Whiteman, Professor of Sustainability at the University of Exeter Business School, and Executive Director of Arctic Basecamp on her hopes for action to stop the Earth reaching disastrous tipping points. And Rebecca Ivey, head of the Global Collaboration Village, tells us how the metaverse can bring people together in a unique way. The environments shown in images and environmental sounds heard in this episode in the Global Collaboration Village's Climate Tipping Points Hub were developed in partnership with Accenture and Microsoft. The Global Collaboration Village is a World Economic Forum Initiative in Partnership with Accenture and Microsoft This episode is a video-podcast - find the video on our YouTube channel: Related podcasts: For a longer interview with Rainn Wilson and Gail Whiteman, listen to our sister podcast, Meet the Leader: Metaverse: Check out all our podcasts on : - - - - Join the Join the

How do the world's top leaders maximize their time to connect and build solutions to the world's biggest problems? This special highlight episode shares insights recorded at past Annual Meetings in Davos, Switzerland with a range of voices including CEOs, entrepreneurs, civil society leaders and an astronaut. They share the personal approaches they employ to listen effectively, build trust, strengthen collaborations, seek out new perspectives and ensure their leadership meets the moment.  In this episode: Roy Jakobs, CEO, Royal Philips Priya Lakhani, CEO and Founder, Century Tech Alex Liu, Chairman, Kearney Matthias Maurer, astronaut, European Space Agency David Rubenstein, founder, Carlyle Group Achim Steiner, administrator, UNDP Ashleigh Streeter-Jones, founder, Raise Our Voice Australia

Swami Sivasubramanian’s first experience using a computer was in high school in India, where there was just one computer for the entire school. While each student could use the computer for just a few minutes a day, those few minutes sparked his lifelong passion for technology, one that led to his current role as VP of Data and AI at Amazon Web Services. It also drove home to him that any exposure to new technologies can be transformative. He talks to Meet the Leader about why it's critical to prioritize access to AI training for a range of ages and backgrounds, especially those in non-technical fields like HR or Marketing where new possibilities will be on the horizon. He also shares a slate of free AWS programming for cutting edge AI tools as well as guidance for leaders setting training priorities for the year ahead. He’ll also explain how he's changed as a leader and technologist since starting at Amazon as a mere intern and the key questions that can help teams get future ready, including one that helped teams at AWS maximize technologies like machine learning. 

As leading figures from government, business, academia and civil society head to Davos for the Annual Meeting 2024, what are the big global challenges they will be discussing? The World Economic Forum's Global Risks Report sets out the biggest issues over the short and medium terms, based on a survey of more than 1,400 global risks experts, policy-makers and industry leaders. This year, the impact of artificial intelligence is felt throughout the report, with rising concern about disinformation and cyberinsecurity. Gayle Markovitz hears from two of the people who put the report together, Carolina Klint, Managing Director at Marsh McLennan, and Peter Giger, Group Chief Risk Officer at Zurich Insurance. Links: Read the Global Risks Report 2024: Follow all the action from the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting 2024 in Davos at and across social media using the hashtag #WEF24. Forum Agenda blogs: Previous episodes on the Global Risks Report: Related episodes: Check out all our podcasts on : - - - - Join the Join the Photo by on Unsplash.

Radio Davos is a podcast that is as wide-ranging and thought-provoking as the work of the World Economic Forum itself. Rather than being restricted to any one topic, each week it focuses on a particular issue of global importance, such as macro-economics, the environment, technology, health, social inequalities and much more - always seeking solutions to the big problems On this episode we listen back to a selection of episodes from 2023. Episodes featured: Read more: The World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting 2024: Global Risks Report 2023: The Future of Jobs Report 2023: AI Governance Alliance: Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2023: Global Gender Gap Report 2023: related podcast episode: Global Coalition for Value in Healthcare Centre for Nature and Climate Find us here: Check out all our podcasts on : - - - - Join the

Want a book for that hard-to-shop-for person? Or a book to make you that much sharper in the year ahead? In this special collection episode, CEOs, startup founders and more share the books that have changed their minds, how they lead and even changed their careers. Their book picks include business classics, as well as surprising selections from histories, how-to books and the Bible. These recommendations helped this year's class of leaders better manage teams, their time and their energy, all while making critical shifts in their lives and mindsets.  Interviewees include: Alyssa Auberger, CSO, Baker McKenzie Deborah Braide, E-Guide Didier Elzinga, Chief Executive Officer, Culture Amp Martine Ferland, Chief Executive Officer, Mercer Tiya Gordon, founder, It's Electric Fahd Jamaleddine, co-founder, Nafda Lebonan Cassandra Mao, Chief Strategy Officer, Halo Car Benjie de la Pena, Chief Executive OfficerShared Mobility Center Blake Scholl, Chief Executive Officer, Boom Supersonic Mitzi Short, CEO of New Season Coaching and Consulting Aaron Tartakovsky, Chief Executive Officer, Epic Clean Tech Dylan Taylor, chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Voyager Space Angela Williams, Chief Executive Officer, United Way Worldwide Interviews in this episode were recorded at: Annual Meeting, Davos Switzerland; Sustainable Development Impact Summit, New York; Urban Transformation Summit, Detroit.      

As 2023 draws to a close and the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting approaches, we look at an issue that will be on everyone’s lips in Davos: artificial intelligence. Cathy Li, head of AI at the Forum tells us about the work of the AI Governance Alliance, which has brought stakeholders together to seek the best way for humans to oversee the rapid rise of the technology. And we hear from a handful of the stakeholders who attended the AI Governance Summit in November: Sara Hooker, VP of Research at Cohere and leader Cohere For AI Sabastian Niles, President & Chief Legal Officer, Salesforce Andrew Ng, Founder, Coursera and DeepLearning.AI Khalfan Belhoul, Chief Executive Officer, Dubai Future Foundation Links: For more on the AI Governance Alliance:  The  Related podcasts: Radio Davos mini-series on generative AI: Other related episodes: Check out all our podcasts on : -  -   -   -  Join the 

2023 saw an unprecedented number of forcibly displaced people worldwide - 110 million and counting - all thanks to climate calamities, conflict and more. Kelly Clements, the deputy high commissioner of the UN’s refugee agency shares the unique ways businesses around the world have stepped in to help tackle this problem, putting training in place to help refugees become economic drivers or even designing education solutions that help children in remote areas stay in school. She also shares what gives her hope, what keeps her up at night and the traits she depends on most to drive this work – insights that can help leaders of any stripe tackling complex challenges.

If you’re a ‘digital native’ - someone who can’t remember a world before the internet - you might feel you have a good idea of the role technology will play in your life and perhaps in that of future generations. But journalism professor Jeff Jarvis, author of a history of another transformative technology from more than five centuries ago - the printing press - says we can have no way yet of knowing where the internet, and AI, will take us. The book is called . Jeff spoke to us at the World Economic Forum's AI Governance Summit. AI Governance Alliance: AI Governance Summit: Podcast links: Check out all our podcasts on: - - - - Join the Join the

Plastics pollution is a very visible, global environmental and health challenge, and last year the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) launched a process to draft a global treaty aimed at solving the problem. Earlier this week, delegations from all over the world met in Nairobi to work on the first full draft of a treaty that could set binding rules that would affect the production, use and disposal of plastics. To get a readout of what happened there, and what might happen next, we hear from Kwame Asamoa Mensa-Yawson, head of the Ghana National Plastic Action Partnership, a multistakeholder group looking at solutions to the plastics issue, under the auspices of the World Economic Forum. Guests and links: Kwame Asamoa Mensa-Yawson, head of the Bethanie Carney-Almroth, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and Kristian Syberg, Roskilde University and Eline Leising, Regional Program Manager, , Global Public Affairs Lead - Packaging & Sustainability Nestlé João Ribeiro-Bidaoui, Global Affairs Special Envoy, Le Ngọc Tuan, delegate to INC-3 from Ministry of Environment of Viet Nam Podcast links: Related episodes: Check out all our podcasts on : - - - - Join the Join the

When Professor Tom Crowther published research into the massive potential of trees to absorb more carbon than previously thought, he helped spur the Trillion Trees movement to plant, restore and conserve forests. But it also caused massive debate. As he publishes updated research, Crowther tells Radio Davos that growing trees must increase biodiversity, and not lead to monoculture plantations, and that it must never be an excuse to slow the drive to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions. Links: Science at , an online platform for the global restoration movement Podcast links: Related episodes: Check out all our podcasts: on : - - - - Join the

The concept of 'value based health care' - where patient outcomes are monitored and health care services are funded on the basis of the quality of care, rather than the quantity of procedures - has been around for a couple of decades, but has yet to become the norm. This podcast explores the potential benefits of a shift from 'volume' to 'value', to patients and to health care providers. Guests: Catherine MacLean, Chief Value Medical Officer at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York. Meni Styliadou, Founder and Co-lead of the Health Outcomes Observatory and VP Health Data Partnerships, Data Science Institute, Takeda (featured in thumbnail picture). Links: Related episodes: Podcast links: Check out all our podcasts on : - - - - Join the

Melting arctic ice will have knock-on effects around the globe, impacting farms, homes, livelihoods and more. But making people care about melting ice or the Arctic - things most people will never see firsthand - can be almost impossible. Unless you get creative, that is.. Arctic Basecamp (a group of arctic experts and scientists), has found a range of creative ways build awareness, including: a special basecamp during Davos (where visitors can learn the latest research by day and some spend the night like polar researchers in below zero temperatures), name-changing (and attention-getting) apps, and ice cream booths that drive home the fact our favorite foods are vulnerable to climate change. There's even a new metaverse experience developed with Accenture on Polar Tipping Points (as part of the World Economic Forum's larger Global Collaboration Village). Meet the Leader talked with founder Gail Whiteman and board member and actor Rainn Wilson about how they strategically "speak science to power," to grab the attention of changemakers from grassroots activists to heads of state. They also discuss how they target and connect with a 'moveable middle" a segment of the population open to change and willing to consider new ideas and approaches.

This week we’re celebrating 100 episodes of our sister podcast Meet the Leader. Every week, Linda Lacina interviews leaders - of major companies, organisations, or what we might call ‘thought leaders' in the fields of academia or campaign groups. If you want to know what makes these individuals tick, and what lessons we might learn from their experiences, subscribe to - you can find it on our podcast website, and . In this episode: Jane Goodall, Founder, Jane Goodall Institute; Al Gore, Founder, Climate Reality Project; former US Vice President; Hans Vestberg, CEO, Verizon; Bas Van Abel, Founder, Fairphone; Punit Renjen, Global CEO Emeritus, Deloitte; Caroline Casey, Founder, The Valuable 500; Harmony Jade Wayner, International Arctic Research Center; Andrea Fuder, Chief Procurement Officer, Volvo Group; Yuxiang Zhou, Founder, Black Lake Technologies; John Amaechi, Founder, APS Intelligence. Check out all our podcasts on : - - - - Join the Join the

Melting arctic ice will have knock-on effects around the globe, impacting farms, homes, livelihoods and more. But making people care about melting ice or the Arctic - things most people will never see firsthand - can be almost impossible. Unless you get creative, that is.. Arctic Basecamp (a group of arctic experts and scientists), has found a range of creative ways build awareness, including: a special basecamp during Davos (where visitors can learn the latest research by day and some spend the night like polar researchers in below zero temperatures), name-changing (and attention-getting) apps, and ice cream booths that drive home the fact our favorite foods are vulnerable to climate change. There's even a new metaverse experience developed with Accenture on Polar Tipping Points (as part of the World Economic Forum's larger Global Collaboration Village). Meet the Leader talked with founder Gail Whiteman and board member, activist and actor Rainn Wilson about how they strategically "speak science to power," to grab the attention of changemakers from grassroots activists to heads of state. They also discuss how they target and connect with a 'moveable middle" a segment of the population open to change and willing to consider new ideas and approaches.

The first black female CEO of one of the largest privately-funded global non-profits discusses the experiences that helped her learn how to be a better advocate for others. These experiences range from a father who served in the NAACP tackling civil rights in 1960s South Carolina, to her own life journey serving as a trial lawyer, a Baptist minister and in the military during Operation Desert Storm. She’ll explain what she’s learned about partnering and rallying others for a cause - and what every leader must know about engaging others and getting your point across.

The digital transformation is shifting more than technology - it’s changing the skills workers will need, the mindsets required to tackle big challenges, and the nature of business itself. Roland Busch, Siemens CEO, shares how tech is reshaping Siemens and how reskilling will evolve, and how managers especially will need to empower teams for the changes ahead. He shares why more decisions should happen near the bottoms of organizations (to compete in a fast-changing world), the corners leaders will be tempted to cut for short-term gains in tough quarters (but shouldn't) and the ingredient that's critical for building agile and accountable teams. He also shares the skills he depends on most in after 30 years at the company, including how his PhD in physics shaped his approach to problem-solving, and a key turning point that changed how he delegates.

In 2003 - the a year before a 19-year-old Harvard student called Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook - Philip Rosedale launched Second Life - an online virtual world that looked set to transform the internet. Two decades later, with the Facebook company, now called Meta, and its competitors seeking to develop the metaverse, what does Rosedale see as the future of the still emerging technology? Interview by Linda Lacina, host of the weekly podcast. Related episodes: Check out all our podcasts on : - - - - Join the Transcript available here:

Trust time. Pick your moments. Find joy in doing. Know the future is not ordained. These are just some of the hard-won lessons learned that have guided the top minds in government, civil society, business on Meet the Leader. This 101st episode collects the program’s highlights, from Jane Goodall's run-in with a grumpy cabbie, to a moment that changed how Al Gore communicates, to a habit that Verizon’s CEO can’t work without. Dig in and take a tour though the one-of-a-kind insights, aha moments and turning points that shaped the world’s biggest changemakers. In this episode:  Jane Goodall, Founder, Jane Goodall Institute; Al Gore, Founder, Climate Reality Project; former US Vice President; Hans Vestberg, CEO, Verizon; Bas Van Abel, Founder, Fairphone; Punit Renjen, Global CEO Emeritus, Deloitte; Caroline Casey, Founder, The Valuable 500; Harmony Jade Wayner, International Arctic Research Center; Andrea Fuder, Chief Procurement Officer, Volvo Group; Yuxiang Zhou, Founder, Black Lake Technologies; John Amaechi, Founder, APS Intelligence.

What is the single most important thing that any individual can do to help alleviate the climate crisis? Katharine Hayhoe is the chief scientist for The Nature Conservancy, a distinguished professor at Texas Tech University and the author of Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World. She believes that only if we all talk about climate change will humanity take the right paths to tackle climate change. But what if the person you are talking to doesn’t believe in climate change? Or what if they do, but they are so depressed or anxious they feel helpless? Katharine has practical advice. Episode page and transcript: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/climate-science-katharine-hayhoe Related podcasts: :  :  :  Check out all our podcasts on : - - - - Join the Join the

At the start of this year, the World Economic Forum published its annual Global Risks Report - a major survey of sentiment about what are the big things that could go wrong - in the economy, the environment, in health, cybersecurity, geopolitics - and more. In this podcast, we invite back the two guests who appeared on Radio Davos in January to talk about the report and its conclusion that the world faced a 'polycrisis' - a combination of risks from many sources. Carolina Klint, Managing Director at Marsh, and Peter Giger, Group Chief Risk Officer at Zurich Insurance Group, discuss how the 'risk landscape' has changed in the few months since then. January's episode on the Global Risks Report: Read the report: Check out all our podcasts on : - - - - Join the Join the Photo by on

Sourcing and scaling viable innovations to decarbonize ‘hard-to-abate’ sectors like mining and aviation will be critical to the success of the Sustainable Development Goals. How can we leverage cutting-edge technologies and adopt novel strategies to accelerate the race to net-zero in these sectors? This is the full audio from a panel discussion at the Sustainable Development Impact Meetings 2023 held September 20. Speakers: Vivek Salgaocar, Director and Co-Founder, Vimson Group; Shahrukh Shamim, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, EnviCore; Emanuela Orsini, Digital Content Specialist, World Economic Forum Geneva, Benedikt Sobotka, Chief Executive Officer, Eurasian Resources Group Sàrl; Annie Hills, Senior Adviser on Innovation to the Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, US Department of State Watch the session here:https://www.weforum.org/events/sustainable-development-impact-meetings-2023/sessions/innovation-for-tough-to-decarbonize-industries About the Sustainable Development Impact Meetings: https://www.weforum.org/events/sustainable-development-impact-meetings-2023

Gender parity has recovered to pre-pandemic levels globally, but the pace of change is stagnating. It will take an estimated 131 years to reach full parity at the current trajectory. How can we boost women’s economic participation and political empowerment and achieve gender parity at all levels of society? This is the full audio from a panel discussion at the Sustainable Development Impact Meetings 2023 held September 20. Speakers: Keir Simmons, Chief International Correspondent, NBC News Thierry Déau, Chief Executive Officer, Meridiam Reshma Saujani, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Moms First Randall Tucker, Chief Inclusion Officer, Mastercard International Incorporated Clare Akamanzi, Chief Executive Officer, Rwanda Development Board (RDB) Watch the session here: https://www.weforum.org/events/sustainable-development-impact-meetings-2023/sessions/accelerating-progress-on-gender-parity About the Sustainable Development Impact Meetings: https://www.weforum.org/events/sustainable-development-impact-meetings-2023

Small and medium agricultural enterprises (agri-SMEs) are Africa’s largest employer and economic engine—and the key to transforming food systems and improving food security for the continent. Yet three out of four agri-SMEs can’t access formal bank financing, and are too large for microfinance, creating an estimated $100 billion gap in unmet demand for financing. How can donor governments, development finance institutions, African governments, and the private sector catalyze action to strengthen food value chains in Africa through innovative financing, and better support small and medium agricultural enterprises? The event is co-hosted with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This special Leadership Panel on strengthening food value chains was held September 18, 2023 at the World Economic Forum's New York headquarters. - Speakers: William Samoei Ruto, President of Kenya, Office of the President of Kenya; Scott Nathan, Chief Executive Officer, U.S. International Development Finance Corporation; Samantha Power, Administrator, US Agency for International Development (USAID); Rebecca Enonchong, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, AppsTech;Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, US Department of the Treasury; Jacqueline Novogratz, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Acumen; Børge Brende, President, World Economic Forum Geneva; Anne Beathe Tvinnereim, Minister of International Development, Norway Government; Akinwumi Ayodeji Adesina, President, African Development Bank (AfDB). Watch the session here: https://www.weforum.org/events/sustainable-development-impact-meetings-2023/sessions/leadership-panel-bridging-the-gap-financing-africas-agricultural-growth About the Sustainable Development Impact Meetings: https://www.weforum.org/events/sustainable-development-impact-meetings-2023

Helen Mountford is the president and CEO of ClimateWorks Foundation, a philanthropy platform that has granted more than a billion dollars to worthy projects and grantees in more than 50 countries since 2008. She’s a key partner in a World Economic Forum initiative that launched this year called GAEA - Giving to Amplify Earth Action - and she'll tell us why philanthropy can be a critical way to fund and experiment with new ideas that can be scaled further by the private sector and how it creates an ecosystem to make big change possible. About GAEA: https://initiatives.weforum.org/giving-to-amplify-earth-action/home About ClimateWorks Foundation: https://climateworks.org/

The World Economic Forum has just published its latest Chief Economists Outlook, a regular report based on the views of senior economists around the world.  This edition shows a glass half full and half empty, with concerns of widespread economic recession easing since the last report in May, but slowing global growth and continued economic uncertainty and geopolitical tensions. In this episode, Jérôme Haegeli, chief economist at Swiss Re, gives his views on the state of the global economy, and where things may be heading. Read more: Episode page with transcript:   Related episodes: May 2023: Find all our audio at: - - - - Join the Join the

More companies have set sustainability goals than ever. But many will struggle to meet those goals. Baker McKenzie's Alyssa Auberger shares insights from a special survey that reveals business leader worries and the blindspots that some might overlook. As the global law firm's first-ever Chief Sustainability Officer, she also shares her unique journey to the role -- from pianist to lawyer to her current position -- and how the discipline and creativity required in music shapes how she works even today. To read the survey, click here: The Race to Net-Zero: Is the global business community on course to beat the clock?, To learn more about Baker McKenzie's approach to navigating risks, check out its podcast Solutions for a Connected World sharing advice on driving growth that is both sustainable – and inclusive.

Semiconductors make the world go round, and the most cutting-edge versions are necessary to propel the artificial intelligence revolution. Historian Chris Miller, author ‘Chip War’, explains what chips do, how they are made, and why they are so vital to global supply chains and international relations. Transcript available here: Read more:  Check out all our podcasts on : -  -   -   -  Join the  Join the 

Dylan E. Taylor is the chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Voyager Space, a space infrastructure company and one of just a handful of firms awarded contracts to help in replacing the aging International Space Station. He and his team are working hard to ensure there’s no ‘space station gap’, all while getting the infrastructure in place so as many people as possible can one day live and work in space.  In this episode, he talks about why expanding access to space motivates him, how his own visit to space changed him, and his experience travelling to one of the deepest part's of the ocean. In this conversation, recorded at the Annual Meeting in Davos, he also shares his approach to risk taking and how he prepares for big challenges - and how that strategy helps him make decisions quickly and navigate the unexpected.  Transcript: https://tinyurl.com/yvr4zxbt

Trust time, make one thing better everyday and keep upgrading yourself. CEO Yuxiang Zhou shares the lessons he has learned in co-founding Black Lake Technologies and his journey to help digitise factories -- a too-often analog world where too many still depend on paper and pencil. It’s a trip through big ideas, big disappointments (including a failed startup), and the slow process of building back from the ground up. The World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer talked to Forum video producer Kateryna Gordiychuk at the Annual Meeting of the New Champions in China this summer, sharing the potential he sees for manufacturing and for cloud computing to connect factories in new ways. He also shares how taking a job on a factory shop floor and climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro helped him pivot and get the perspective he needed to focus on the right solutions and priorities.  Episode Transcript: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/meet-the-leader/episodes/yuxiang-zhou-black-lake-technologies-startup World Economic Forum Technology Pioneers Program: https://initiatives.weforum.org/technology-pioneers/home

How can something as simple as a seed help the world begin to make strides across big challenges such as protecting water, tackling climate change and even strengthening food security and opportunity? Ponsi Trivisvavet, the CEO of seed design company Inari, shares the innovations that are helping to protect the earth while tackling stubborn problems like hunger. She also shares her leadership journey, the question she feels is key to strengthening any leader's resilience and the unique approaches to biotech innovation that help this company drive cutting-edge solutions. 

Is your team solving the right problems and building the right solutions? Are they truly pushing the envelope - in the short- and long-term? This compilation episode shares the questions top innovators ask themselves and their teams, across engineering, biotech, healthcare and more. It also highlights the practical tactics and strategies they use to keep teams challenged, focused and engaged so they are poised to develop the leading ideas that will truly reshape the future.  This episode features: Cristiano Amon, CEO, Qualcomm; Shez Partovi, Chief Innovation and Strategy Officer, Royal Philips; Geraldine Matchett, co-CEO and CFO, Royal DSM; Ponsi Trivisvavet, CEO Inari; Rodrigo Santos, president, Crop Science Division, Bayer Crop Science; Lars Stenqvist, Volvo Group; Alex Liu, Managing Partner, Kearney.

Professor Stuart Russell shares his concerns about the rapid rise of generative artificial intelligence. Listen back to our 5-part series on generative AI: Episode 1: Episode 2: Episode 3: Episode 4: Episode 5: Related episodes: Check out all our podcasts on : - - - - Join the

Designer phages, spatial optics, plant sensors and bendable batteries - just some of the items on this year's World Economic Forum Top 10 Emerging Technologies that will change our lives in the next 3-5 years. To talk us through all 10, we hear from the two people who led the work compiling the list: Mariette DiChristina, Dean and Professor of the Practice in Journalism, Boston University College of Communication; and Bernie Meyerson, Chief Innovation Officer Emeritus, IBM. LINKS: The report: Related podcasts: Check out all our podcasts on : - - - - Join the

Chief Risk Officers (CROs) are firefighters, investigators, counselors and -- critically -- the people trained to ensure companies have the systems, frameworks and culture in place to identify, assess and monitor big challenges ahead. They also help teams help teams take meaningful action and chart a path forward. On the launch of the World Economic Forum's Chief Risk Officers Outlook, Bahare Heywood, the first ever CRO at global law firm Clifford Chance, shares her take on the report's highlights as well as the real-world approaches she believes are critical to make risk management effective in any business. She shares strategies she used to create a risk management culture, her personal lessons learned and the one thing all risk management plans must consider right now.

Is the metaverse still a thing or has the world’s attention moved on to generative AI?  On this episode of Radio Davos, we speak to a vice president of the consumer electronics company HTC. Pearly Chen heads Business Development & Content Partnerships for VIVEPORT a subscription plan for virtual reality gaming - immersive video games played using VR headsets. Pearly is convinced of the potential for metaverse applications for healthcare, social care and education, and believes the advent of generative AI will make us all builders of the metaverse. Links: ​​Social Implications of the Metaverse: Privacy and Safety in the Metaverse: Blogs: Podcasts: Check out all our podcasts on : - - - - Join the

Qualcomm has long served as a tech pioneer, driving innovations in cellular connectivity, AI, autonomous driving and more. CEO Cristiano Amon shares how digitalization will further transform our lives -- from health and retail to energy and the future of work. He also shares how Qualcomm drives innovative thinking in its teams and the simple framework any leader can use to decide which disruptive ideas to take forward.

Claude Marshall fled Nazi Germany as a small boy in the 1930s and now helps today’s refugees by fundraising for sports facilities in refugee camps. He tells Radio Davos why sport is so important for traumatised young people, and compares the plight of people today forced from their home with his own childhood experience. Related links: The World Economic Forum’s , co-chaired by the and , Transcript available on the podcast episode page: Check out all our podcasts on :  - - - - Join the

Hard-fought battles by leaders around the world have helped better protect nature in recent years but more work is needed to secure everything from future economic resilience to progress on climate action. Dr. Andrew Steer of the Bezos Earth Fund shares what transitions must happen this decade and the new approaches to philanthropy, policy, technology and more that can bring those transitions past the tipping point for true change. In this episode recorded at the 2023 Annual Meeting in Davos, he also shares how he's changed as a leader over his long career: from earning his Economics Ph.D., to roles at the World Bank and the World Resources Institute and other organizations, developing the approach he takes today that helps him better balance a range of competing challenges to solve the problems he wants to solve most.

Can we prevent a repeat of COVID-19? In a new book, , author Kate Kelland looks at what we learned from the pandemic and how scientists, governments and societies can be better prepared for the next one. Links World Economic Forum’s Website page for the “Centre for Health and Healthcare”. Regional Vaccine Manufacturing Collaborative:  Pathogen Surveillance Initiative:  Disease X:  Related podcasts: Check out all our podcasts on :  - - - - Join the Join the

The global gender gap isn't budging, new research shows, and in this week's episode, women leaders share some of the unique policies and programs that can help build a pipeline for women in leadership and get closer to bridging that divide. Women also share the strategies that they have personally used to get their ideas heard and lead in only the way they can. This episode features: Ashley Dartnell, Global Senior Director for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Boston Consulting Group; Jane Sun, CEO, Trip.com; Peggy Johnson, CEO, Magic Leap; Anna Katrina Shedletsky, founder, Instrumental, Nela Richardson, Chief Economist, ADP; Ashleigh Streeter-Jones, CEO and Founder, Raise Our Voice Australia; Lynn Martin, President, NYSE Group; Cristina Gamboa, CEO, World Green Building Council; Geraldine Matchett, co-CEO and CFO, Royal DSM; Becky Frankiewicz, Chief Commercial Officer, Manpower Group.

The final episode of our AI series comes from the Annual Meeting of the New Champions (AMNC), the World Economic Forum’s ‘summer Davos’, in Tianjin, China. Cathy Li, head of AI at the World Economic Forum, says what needs to happen next as the world gets to grips with generative AI, and introduces the AI Governance Alliance. And we listen in to discussions at AMNC about AI - the opportunities for business and implications for things such as medicine and education. Follow AMNC here:  Watch the AMNC sessions quoted in this episode: Generative AI: Friend or Foe? Keeping Up: AI Readiness Amid an AI Revolution A transcript is available on the episode page on our website:  Mentioned in this episode: Check out all our podcasts on :  - - - - Join the

Amid pressures on the global economy from recent major crises and renewed turbulence in financial markets, stakeholders will need to convert the bright spots of accelerated trade and investment in green and innovative industries into a new paradigm for sustained growth. How can both government and the private sector draw on the opportunities stemming from this time of change and transition to rewire the models underpinning global growth? Speakers: Zhang Yuzhuo, Chairman, State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC) Pham Minh Chinh, Prime Minister of Viet Nam Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director-General, World Trade Organization (WTO) Mia Mottley, Prime Minister of Barbados, Barbados Government Chris Hipkins, Prime Minister of New Zealand Børge Brende, President, World Economic Forum Transcript available at: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/06/amnc23-braving-the-headwinds-rewiring-growth-amid-fragility Read more: https://www.weforum.org/events/annual-meeting-of-the-new-champions-2023/sessions/braving-the-headwinds-rewiring-growth-amid-fragility Watch the session: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/06/top-leaders-discuss-managing-economic-hurdles-at-amnc23/ Check out all our podcasts on wef.ch/podcasts:  Radio Davos - subscribe Meet the Leader - subscribe World Economic Forum Book Club Podcast - subscribe Agenda Dialogues - subscribe Join the World Economic Forum Podcast Club Join the World Economic Forum Book Club

In most parts of the world, the gender gap - the difference in opportunities and outcomes for women compared to men - is closing. But closing so slowly that it would take, at the current rate of progress, until 2154 for men and women to be truly equal. That statistic comes from the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Report, an extensive, annual survey whose latest edition has just been published. In this episode, World Economic Forum Managing Director Saadia Zahidi picks some highlights from the report - which has lots to say about the state of gender inequality in the post-pandemic, cost-of-living squeezed world. We also hear from Sue Duke, Vice-President of LinkedIn where she heads public policy. Sue talks about the challenges facing women in the workplace, particularly in the area of STEM - science, technology, engineering and maths - and how tricky is still is for women to get to the top of companies (the 'C-suite'). For a transcript, go to the episode page: Please note the final episode of our AI series will be published next week. Read more on the Gender Gap Report: Get the report here: Analysis: , by Sue Duke Podcasts: Check out all our podcasts on : - - - - Join the Join the

"AI will have some form of intelligence that will either compete with us or augment us. This is a question for us as a species. For the past thousands of years, we didn’t have a cousin or a brother and now we may have one. So it is how we understand that and how we deal with it." On Episode 4 of our special series on generative AI, we consider the options for how we can govern the rapidly growing technology. Guests: Amir Banifatemi, Director, AI Commons; Cyrus Hodes Co-Founder of AIGC Chain and Stability AI, Harvard Kennedy School of Government Co-host: Lucia Velasco, Lead, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, World Economic Forum Transcript available at: Previous episodes in this series: Episode 1 Episode 2 Episode 3 Related podcasts: Related video: Links: : The World Economic Forum's : Check out all our podcasts on : - - - - Join the

Speaking to the media during COVID drove home to epidemiologist Prativa Baral the need for clear science communication training so experts can build trust with the public and be understood. Her experience led her to found Let Science Connect, a social enterprise that trains scientists and technical experts how to speak without jargon and connect more effectively with audiences. She shares the frameworks and tips that can help anyone get their message heard. 

The rise of generative artificial intelligence raises a lot of philosophical questions. So can philosophy help us make AI that serves humanity for the good? On this episode we hear from 'applied ethicist' Cansu Canca, AI Ethics Lead at the Institute for Experiential AI, Northeastern University, USA; and from Sara Hooker, head of Cohere For AI, a research lab that seeks to solve complex machine learning problems. Full transcript available at: Previous episodes in this series: Episode 1 Episode 2 Related podcasts: Links: The World Economic Forum's : Check out all our podcasts on : - - - - Join the

This Co-CEO and CFO explains how biotech leader Royal DSM invests in innovation that propels the company in the short term while putting in place the solutions that will be critical for the future. She'll share key mindsets, such as the frameworks critical for balancing present and future needs, the key role purpose plays, and more. She also shares the skillset that must be built in the next 3 years that not every leader might be considering and the surprising advice that shapes how she looks at leadership - and that helped convince her to take her current role. 

For a transcript, visit the episode page at: In the second a special series on generative artificial intelligence, we hear from two companies involved in the AI revolution - one of the biggest and oldest names in computing, Microsoft, and a young startup making waves in this booming industry, Hugging Face. Speakers: Natasha Crampton, Chief Responsible AI Officer, Microsoft; Thomas Wolf Chief Science Officer and Co-Founder, Hugging Face. Co-host: Benjamin Larsen, Lead, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, World Economic Forum. Previous episodes in this series: Related podcasts: Links: The World Economic Forum's : Check out all our podcasts on : - - - - Join the

In the first of a special series on generative artificial intelligence, we ask why AI is suddenly such big news and where things might go from here. Speakers: Cathy Li, Head, AI, Data and Metaverse, World Economic Forum; Francesca Rossi, AI Ethics Global Leader, IBM Research; and Pascale Fung, Professor at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Thumbnail picture: generated by Dall-E with the prompt 'the face of rodin's thinker as a robot' Transcript available on the episode page: Related podcasts: Links: The World Economic Forum's : Check out all our podcasts on : - - - - Join the

In this special compilation episode, top CEOs, founders, activists reveal the advice that shaped them, helping them change their minds and their approaches to work and life, improving on everything from patience and authenticity to how they team and learn. Featured in this episode: Leif Johansson, former non-executive chairman at AstraZeneca, AstraZeneca; Marie-France Tschudin, President of Innovative Medicines International and Chief Commercial Officer, Novartis; Caroline Casey, founder, the Valuable 500; Nicola Mendelsohn, Head of the Global Business Group, Meta; Cassandra Mao, Chief Strategy Officer, Halo Car; Ponsi Trivisvavet, CEO, Inari; Melonie Parker, Chief Diversity Officer, Google; Blake Scholl, founder, Boom Supersonic; Nazanin Boniadi, activist and actress.

The World Economic Forum's Future of Jobs report finds that 44% of worker skills will be disrupted in the next five years. In this episode, experts from Google, LinkedIn and more talk about the mindsets and approaches that will help workers and employees navigate the skills disruption ahead - and what some companies are already putting into place to help workers stay relevant.  In this episode: Becky Frankiewicz, Chief Commercial Officer, Manpower Group; Nela Richardson, Chief Economist at ADP; Valérie Beaulieu, Chief Sales and Marketing Officer, Adecco Group; Judith Wiese, Chief People and Sustainability Officer, Siemens;  Melonie Parker, Chief Diversity Officer at Google; Lindiwe Matlali, founder, Africa Teen Geeks; Allen Blue, co-founder, LinkedIn, Nicolas Schmit, Commissioner for Jobs and Social Rights, European Commission, Soon-Joo Gog, Chief Skills Officer, SkillsFuture Singapore; Alex Liu, managing partner and chairman at Kearney.

Josef Aschbacher's role as Director General for the European Space Agency (ESA) requires mobilizing support for visionary innovations that often take decades to build. He shared the strategies he’s learned while at ESA to talk about technical marvels in a clear way, without jargon, to earn buy in for big ideas and connect with a range of stakeholders from policy makers to children. These methods for sparking inspiration, trust and excitement can be critical to any leader making long-term change a reality. He also discussed the $350-billion-dollar (and growing) space economy, sharing how a range of initiatives and shifts can foster new businesses and help ensure space will continue to strengthen economies and protect the environment for years to come.

Against a backdrop of persistently sluggish growth, the global economy and markets continue to be roiled by crisis after crisis. What trends will determine the prospects for the year ahead, and are there grounds for optimism that the worst may be over? This is the full audio of the Chief Economists Briefing session at the Growth Summit, on 3 May 2023, You can watch it here: https://www.weforum.org/events/the-growth-summit-jobs-and-opportunity-for-all-2023/sessions/global-economic-outlook-7aefadfe78 Podcast transcript available here: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/agenda-dialogues/episodes/growth-summit-2023-chief-economists-briefing Speakers: Sandra Phlippen, Chief Economist, ABN AMRO Paul Donovan, Chief Economist, UBS Global Wealth Management, UBS AG John Defterios, Professor of Business, New York University Abu Dhabi Gregory Daco, Chief Economist, EY-Parthenon Subscribe on any platform: https://pod.link/1574956552 Join the World Economic Forum Podcast Club

With an estimated shortfall of 10 million workers in the sector by 2030, the health and care economy is under severe stress. What multi stakeholder policies and strategies can help recruit, retain and rethink healthcare jobs? This is the full audio from a session at the World Economic Forum’s Growth Summit 2023, Future of Work - Health and Care. Watch the session here: https://www.weforum.org/events/the-growth-summit-jobs-and-opportunity-for-all-2023/sessions/closing-the-talent-gap-healthcare Speakers:Ricardo Baptista Leite Member of Parliament, Portuguese National Parliament (Assembleia da República) Howard Catton Chief Executive Officer, International Council of Nurses (ICN) Bianca Rothier International Correspondent, Globo TV Anjali Bhagra Professor of Medicine; Medical Director, Office of Equity, Inclusion and Diversity, Mayo Clinic Subscribe on any platform: https://pod.link/1574956552 Join the World Economic Forum Podcast Club

With a background in software engineering and ad tech, Blake Scholl has an unusual CV for an aviation CEO. However, his singular passion for aviation drove him to learn this sector and eventually found a sustainable aviation company with flights twice as fast as what's offered today. Founding Boom was one of several crossroads moments in Scholl's life that drove home to him that knowledge and skills are adaptable and changeable, and there to support our passions. In this episode, recorded at the Annual Meeting in Davos, he explains the opportunity supersonic flight offers now, decades after the famed Concorde, for tackling emissions and connecting the world. He also shared key pivot points - from leaving high school early, to hitting a wall as Boom founder - where he relied not on what he knew but what he could learn and possibly teach himself. Such an approach is critical for any listener as the job market will be increasingly transformed by a demand for new skills.

Wondering what job you’ll be doing in five years’ time? Chances are it may be quite different from what you do now, and you’ll need different skills. The transition to clean energy and the rise of artificial intelligence are likely to have a big impact on the world of work so employers, too, need to adopt a ‘skills-first’ mindset. We hear from Tan Kok Yam, Chief Executive of SkillsFuture Singapore, who is putting theory into action, and to Tarika Barrett, CEO of Girls Who Code, a non-profit that equips young women with the computing skills to pursue 21st century opportunities. Transcript available here: Read the report : https://www.weforum.org/whitepapers/putting-skills-first-a-framework-for-action/ Follow the Growth Summit here: Mentioned in this podcast: : : More podcast episodes from the Growth Summit: : : Check out all our podcasts on : - - - - Join the Join the

The CEO of Mercer, one of the world's largest human resource consultancies, shares the blind spots holding companies back from building healthier and more resilient teams. She shares how targeted uses of data can boost uptake of health and wellness benefits, the role of reskilling in future workforces and the importance of rethinking retention strategies in the long term.  

What’s going on in the global economy? Christian Keller, the Head of Economic Research at Barclays, joins Radio Davos to discuss the latest Chief Economists Outlook and explore what likely lies ahead for consumers, businesses and policymakers. More on the Growth Summit:  A transcript is available on the episode page on our website Check out all our podcasts on :  - - - - Join the

The World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs report is a snapshot of the world of work now, and a look into where we are going. The latest edition comes as we are still digesting the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and as we all become aware of the massive impact that Artificial Intelligence is likely to have on pretty much every job humans do. Forum Managing Director Saadia Zahidi sets out the highlights of the report, and Jeff Maggioncalda, CEO of online learning company Coursera talks about the skills we will all need in this rapidly changing world.  

With a career that spans nearly 5 decades in science and technology -- one that includes time at AstraZeneca during its history-making effort to deliver billions of vaccines to countries around the world -- Leif Johansson shares his unique lessons learned. Before he steps down from his role as non-executive chairman this month, he shared with Meet The Leader how his interest in physics has made him a better leader, the key moments that shaped him and even changed his mind, and the advice he's been most grateful for.  

“Arguably the most common devastating disease that most people have never heard of. It affects at least one in nine women. It is the cause of up to 50% of infertility cases in women.” Endometriosis is the subject of director Shannon Cohn’s documentary Below the Belt. She tells how women have been overlooked, disbelieved and gaslit by medical practitioners and policymakers - and why that has to stop. Website of the movie Below the Belt: Find out more about the World Economic Forum's Women's Health Initiative: A transcript is available on the episode page on our website:  Check out all our podcasts on : - - - - Join the

A blood cancer diagnosis turned this Meta exec's day-to-day upside down in 2016. But it also reinforced a key personal philosophy: control what you can control. It's an approach that she stresses to her teams at Meta, reminding her staff to focus on areas where they can make the biggest impact. And it's an approach that has empowered her to make big change happen for others, inspiring her to build a special charity to seek a cure: the Follicular Lymphoma Foundation. In this episode, recorded at the 2023 Annual Meeting in Davos, Mendelsohn shares what she's learned about focus and resilience and how she's put those qualities to work to drive a host of innovative solutions, from leveraging virtual reality for remote meetings to building resources to support a new generation of women entrepreneurs.

COVID transformed the world of work, but AI’s impact will be much bigger. “It’s the first time in the history of humanity that we have to rethink what it means to be human. It’s no longer, ‘I think, therefore I am’. Most of our thinking can be outsourced to machines.” Artificial intelligence is about to transform the world of work, says Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Chief Innovation Officer at ManpowerGroup and the author of ‘I, Human: AI, Automation, and the Quest to Reclaim What Makes Us Unique’. He looks at the huge changes COVID and home-working have already wrought, and how we can cope with the even bigger AI revolution. Related podcasts: Check out all our podcasts on :  - - - - Join the  

It often looks like we are doing too little too late to wean ourselves off fossil fuels, but companies around the world are creating new ways of generating and delivering energy. We hear from four CEOs about their work on aviation fuel, electric vehicles, green hydrogen and new nuclear. And World Economic Forum John Defterios, who covered energy for three decades as a journalist at CNN, shares his thoughts. Guests: Michael Farkas, Founder, Executive Chairman & CEO at  Theye Veen, Co-Founder and Chief Commercial Officer at Jason Few, President & CEO at Stefano Buono, founder and CEO, The interviews were recorded at the inaugural meeting of Advanced Energy Solutions, the World Economic Forum community that aims to speed up deployment of advanced energy solutions from years to months while eradicating the green premium. It engages leaders in frontier, fast-growing segments of the energy system such as clean fuels, hydrogen, storage, new nuclear, carbon and demand management. Find out more about the Forum’s work on energy here:  Related podcasts: Radio Davos: Meet the Leader: Check out all our podcasts on :  - - - - Join the Join the

Augmented reality (AR) is transforming retail, surgery and even how we read a book. Peggy Johnson, CEO of Magic Leap -- a company pioneering in this technology -- shares how AR might evolve – and what could hold that progress back. She also shares key milestones from her decades in tech -- including the surprising lesson mobile ringtones taught her about making way for big breakthroughs and how as an introvert early in her career she found ways to get her ideas heard.

The first UN Water Conference in almost 50 years was a watershed moment to catalyze a series of several key opportunities this year, to assess progress on the SDGs, but what are the major outcomes? How can leaders take the water action agenda forward as an enabler to address the nexus of critical issues including climate, energy, and food systems? In this session, hosted by the World Economic Forum, high-level public and private stakeholders come together virtually to discuss the main outcomes of the UN Water Conference and the actions required to ensure a water-positive future for people and planet. This is the audio from a panel discussion that you can watch here: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/03/beyond-the-un-water-conference-leaders-on-whats-next/ Speakers:Jim Andrew, Executive Vice-President, Chief Sustainability Officer, PepsiCo Beth Koigi, Co-Founder, Majik Water Usha Rao-Monari, Undersecretary-General and Associate Administrator, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Henk Ovink, Special Envoy for International Water Affairs of the Netherlands Gary White, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Water.org Matt Damon, Co-Founder, Water.org Related podcasts:UN Water Conference: the entrepreneurs on a mission UN 2023 Water Conference: water is life, but it’s also politics Xylem’s Patrick Decker: Purpose, focus - and effective communication

At the UN Water Conference, a group of entrepreneurs from around the world are telling how their innovations could help tackle some of the big challenges related to water. Laura Beltran, of the World Economic Forum's UpLink platform, talks to three of them who are: taking water from the air in Kenya; making the most of rain runoff from buildings in Canada; and getting affordable water filters to people in Latin America. Guests: Beth Koigi, Co-founder, (Kenya) - An atmospheric water generator system which uses proven condensation-based techniques to capture water moisture from the air. Majik serves communities that are not able to access safe drinking water, offering a turnkey solution. Kevin Mercer, President & Co-founder, (Canada) - Building community-scale, property-based, digital networks for net-zero residential property rainfall runoff, while generating verifiable ecosystem credits and restoring the health and security of groundwater and watersheds. Laura Stocco, CTO & Co-founder, (Switzerland) - A locally-assembled and managed, biodegradable membrane filter that removes pathogen heavy metals from water. Through its microfranchising model, entrepreneurs can manufacture and sell filters, creating a sustainable business. Read more: More podcast episodes on water: Subscribe: Check out all our podcasts on : - - - - Join the

As the world meets at the United Nations for the first water summit in a decade, we speak to someone who has written a history of humanity’s relationship with water. Giulio Boccaletti, author of Water: A Biography says it is human decisions that have created water crises, and it’s humans that can solve them. Read more: Liked this? Try these: Radio Davos Meet the Leader Agenda Dialogues World Economic Forum Book Club Podcast Check out all our podcasts on : - - - - Join the

What is your purpose? What societal impact are you driving? Patrick Decker, CEO of Xylem, shares how this water technology company is helping to tackle these questions while tackling big issues impacting society and the planet (such as water scarcity, water infrastructure and emissions), leveraging everything from effective communication to technology (AI and digital twins) and innovative demand deposit accounts. On this episode, released ahead of the UN 2023 Water Conference, Decker shares the virtuous circle purpose creates - how it draws motivated people to join teams, attracts partners and commercial teams, drives fresh thinking and keeps a cross-section of groups aligned on big goals. Decker shared the practical ways leaders can keep teams in touch with a shared purpose -- from aligned communication (that sidesteps confusion) to a simple question asked at the top of meetings to keep conversations focused.

Everyone, it seems, is talking about ChatGPT - the generative artificial intelligence application that you can chat to like a very intelligent human and instruct to write things previously done by humans. In this episode, Aakrit Vaish, Co-Founder & CEO of Haptik, an Indian company that makes AI that interacts with people by voice or text, says the developments of the last few months are a real breakthrough and that we are entering a golden age of AI. Check out all our podcasts on : - - - - Join the Liked this? Try these: Radio Davos Agenda Dialogues

Too many groups, including women and gender diverse people, do not see themselves as policymakers or politicians. Raise Our Voice Australia works to change that by providing special training on how the political system works, as well as tactical skills in areas like community building and having conversations with people you disagree with. Founder Ashleigh Streeter-Jones shares the important role a mentor played in crafting a step-by-step process to launch the social enterprise, one that helped break the massive project into 'bite-sized' pieces, a process that can be instrumental for founders of any startup or initiative. In fact, Streeter Jones has a circle of mentors she turns to for advice and commiseration, and she shares the key role that mentoring plays in sharing knowledge and building anything big. 

With growing social polarisation and a lack of trust in the fairness of economic systems, progress on more efficient global taxation mechanisms, such as the OECD's global corporate tax deal, is becoming essential. How can we address the tax challenges raised by digitalisation and ensure a fairer redistribution of tax revenues across countries? This is the full audio of the session at the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting 2023. Speakers:Joumanna Bercetche, Anchor, CNBC (moderator) Zainab Shamsuna Ahmed, Nigerian Minister of Finance Mathias Cormann, Secretary-General, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Gabriel Zucman, Director, EU Tax Observatory Faisal Alibrahim, Saudi Minister of Economy and Planning Watch this session:https://www.weforum.org/events/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2023/sessions/is-global-tax-reform-stalling SubscribeSubscribe on any platform: https://pod.link/1574956552 Join the World Economic Forum Podcast Club Follow all the action from the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting 2023 at wef.ch/wef23 and across social media using the hashtag #WEF23.

The second woman in history to run the New York Stock Exchange shares her 'non-linear' path to President and the integral role her background in programming, technology and statistics plays in running a modern stock exchange. In a conversation recorded at the 2023 Annual Meeting in Davos, she talks about her first year on the job, the simple habit that helped her navigate 2022's rollercoaster year for stocks, the books inspiring her now, and what's needed to get more women into finance and tech.

Up to now, the vast majority of the world’s ocean was not governed by a global treaty that would protect this vital part of the planet from pollution or over-exploitation - meaning the high seas were something of a Wild West. But that is all changing. After years of negotiations, member states of the United Nations have agreed the High Seas Treaty, ensuring the protection and sustainable use of marine biodiversity of areas beyond national jurisdictions. Almost two-thirds of the planet’s surface is ocean and the seas make up 95% of the Earth’s total habitat by volume. But, only 1% of the high seas has, up until now, been under any protection protocol and just 39% of the ocean falls under the national jurisdiction of individual countries. Kristian Teleki, Director of at the World Economic Forum tells us what is in the treaty and why it’s such a big deal for the planet. Find out more: Further listening: Subscribe on any platform: Join the Get all our podcasts at .

COVID-19 set women at work back a generation - pushing some to leave professions or the workforce altogether. And with many women in dual-earning couples still doing the lion's share of childcare, those remaining in the workforce might feel skeptical about the benefits of innovations such as 4-day weeks. In a conversation recorded at the Annual Meeting in Davos, ManpowerGroup's Becky Frankiewicz talked to Forum editor Gayle Markovitz about what leaders can do now to ensure their new remote and flexible work policies are adapting to meet all their staffers' changing needs - and how to tackle looming challenges in reskilling and labor scarcity for their teams overall. 

Flows of capital, goods, services and people have boosted productivity and living standards, tripling the size of the global economy over the past three decades. However, tensions over trade and investment are undermining growth and trust. As the cost of further disintegration severely outweighs the benefits, how can leaders reshape the current system to develop a new agenda for trade, growth and investment? This session is directly linked to the ongoing work of the Trade and Investment Platform of the World Economic Forum. This is the full audio of the session at the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting 2023. Speakers Robert Habeck, Vice-Chancellor and Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, Germany Alexander De Croo, Prime Minister, Belgium Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director-General, World Trade Organization Laurence D. Fink, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, BlackRock Inc. Børge Brende, President, World Economic Forum (host) Subscribe Subscribe on any platform: https://pod.link/1574956552 Join the World Economic Forum Podcast Club Follow all the action from the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting 2023 at wef.ch/wef23 and across social media using the hashtag #WEF23.

If you’re lucky enough to have some spare cash to invest, how do you decide where to put it? In the past few years the answer to that question may have changed. The rise of robo-advisers - algorithms that can guide you - and of 'finfluencers' - social media influencers keen to impart their wisdom - have transformed the way many people manage their money. To find out more about the big changes happening in financial markets and the way individuals approach them, we talk to Steph Guild, CFA and Head of Investment Strategy at Robinhood Financial, and to Laura Astorino, a Managing Director at Accenture. Thumbnail image by on Unsplash Subscribe on any platform: Join the

Investors in natural ecosystems face hard choices to ensure credible outcomes at scale, given the rapid action needed to stabilize Earth systems and legitimate concerns of greenwashing. An expert panel asks: How can data, regulation and Indigenous knowledge spur investors to channel resources towards quality conservation and restoration at scale? This is the full audio of the session at the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting 2023. SpeakersAndrew Steer, President and Chief Executive Officer, Bezos Earth Fund Helena Gualinga, Co-Founder, Indigenous Youth Collective of Amazon Defenders Suzanne DiBianca, Chief Impact Officer, Salesforce Luiz Fernando do Amaral, Chief Executive Officer, Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) Katherine Garrett-Cox, Chief Executive Officer, GIB Asset Management, Gulf International Bank (UK) Nicole Schwab, Co-Head, Nature-Based Solutions; Member of the Executive Committee, World Economic Forum Geneva SubscribeSubscribe on any platform: https://pod.link/1574956552 Join the World Economic Forum Podcast Club Follow all the action from the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting 2023 at wef.ch/wef23 and across social media using the hashtag #WEF23.

A more sustainable future means transforming how business is done. In a special conversation recorded at the 2023 Annual Meeting in Davos, PepsiCo's CEO Ramon Laguarta shared how the food and beverage giant is rethinking things like packaging and consumption models - and how de-risking investments, scaling new habits and the right mix of internal collaboration and competition can spur innovation. 

The ties that bind the world economy together have frayed in recent years. From the competition over advanced microchip manufacturing between the US and China to Russia's war in Ukraine, globalization is undeniably entering a new phase. But has globalization reached the end of the line — or is a resurgence on the cards? This is the full audio of the session at the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting 2023 that you can watch here: De-Globalization or Re-Globalization? SpeakersIan Bremmer, President, Eurasia Group (host) Adam Tooze, Director, European Institute, Columbia University Ngaire Woods, Dean, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford Niall Ferguson, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University Péter Szijjártó, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hungary

A 20-seater plane powered by a zero-emissions hydrogen fuel cell engine just made its first test flight. We talk to the company behind it, that believes all planes can be made zero-emissions. In a recent test flight, ZeroAvia, an engine builder, made history by flying a 20-seater aircraft completely powered by green hydrogen, a zero-emissions fuel. The breakthrough test, which is the largest aircraft to ever be flown using hydrogen power, is a promising step towards a zero-emissions future for the aviation industry.  In this episode of Radio Davos, Val Miftakhov, the CEO of ZeroAvia, talks about the company's mission to develop zero-emission planes, the potential for commercial airlines to adopt this technology, and the role of customer demand and government regulation in achieving a more sustainable aviation industry. The episode also explores the challenges and opportunities in transitioning to zero-emission aviation. Links:  Clean Skies for Tomorrow initiative:  Technology Pioneers: ZeroAvia:   Read more:  Episode page: Subscribe on any platform: Join the

Caroline Casey is the founder of The Valuable 500, an organization that represents 22 million workers across 64 sectors worldwide working to end disability exclusion. Key to this effort is bridging a data gap to make it easier to track progress for inclusion and make apples-to-apples comparisons between companies. But critical, too, is ensuring leaders have the skills and the mettle to transform their organizations for a more inclusive world. She shares her journey in founding The Valuable 500, what motivates her and how a mentor changed how she thinks about impact. She also shares why a leader’s self-awareness is critical to better managing people - and what could be unlocked if more CEOs engaged in therapy. 

‘Polycrisis’, a relatively new term, was in the air at the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting in January, where people were discussing the intertwined global issues of war, economic uncertainty, inflation, recession and the climate crisis, among others. But does that word really tell us anything new about the world we live in and the challenges we face? Historian Adam Tooze tells us about the origins of the term and of the polycrisis itself.   is Professor of History at the University of Columbia in New York. He is also host of Foreign Policy’s weekly economics podcast , and the author of books including and, most recently, .   Links: Episode page:   Related podcast episodes:       Subscribe: Subscribe on any platform: Join the 

In a tight labor market, how can you ensure you're filling much-needed roles with the right people? And once they're hired, how can you ensure those new staffers stay for the long haul? Valerie Beaulieu, Adecco Group's Chief Sales and Marketing Officer, shares why labor scarcity is here to stay, how companies can navigate hiring, and how workers can make the most of this moment. She also shares a skill she honed in an early career as a journalist and how it can help any leader spot new talent trends as they emerge.

How can we navigate the ‘polycrisis’? A range of leaders give their quick tips on how to set priorities and stay true to your values.  This episode was first published on our Meet the Leader podcast channel.   Subscribe on any platform: Radio Davos:  Meet the Leader: https://pod.link/1534915560 Agenda Dialogues: All our podcasts here: Join the Find all the action from the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting 2023 at and across social media using the hashtag #WEF23.

More people have a bank or mobile account than ever before, giving more people in the developing world and beyond a chance build savings, grow businesses and protect their families from the next global shock. But despite big gains in financial inclusion, there’s much more work to do. This work is especially urgent as a new swirl of economic, humanitarian and climate shocks could make getting payments to people quickly and efficiently more important than ever. Al Kelly, Jr, Executive Chairman and former CEO of Visa shared what’s needed next to bridge gaps and reach true financial inclusion in an interview recorded at the Annual Meeting in Davos in 2023. He also shares the questions all good leaders ask themselves as well as the lessons he learned from an early role at the White House and from Visa’s founder and first CEO Dee Hock.

The engines of global growth are slowing and the number of households and businesses facing economic distress is rising. What does the future of growth look like and what policies are needed to stabilize the global economy? This is the full audio of the session at the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting 2023 that you can watch here: Davos 2023: Global Economic Outlook: Is this the End of an Era? Speakers:Geoff Cutmore, Anchor, CNBC Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund Christine Lagarde, President, European Central Bank Bruno Le Maire, Minister of Economy, Finance and the Recovery and Industrial and Digital Sovereignty of France, Ministry of Economy, Finance and Industrial and Digital Sovereignty Kuroda Haruhiko, Governor, Bank of Japan Lawrence H. Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor, Harvard Kennedy School of Government Subscribe:Subscribe on any platform: https://pod.link/1574956552 Join the World Economic Forum Podcast Club Follow all the action from the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting 2023 at wef.ch/wef23 and across social media using the hashtag #WEF23.

Actress and activist Nazanin Boniadi, who was at the WEF’s Annual Meeting in Davos to talk about the protest movement being led by women in her native Iran, joins us on Radio Davos to discuss the situation. And we hear from former Spanish foreign minister Arancha González, who tells a panel discussion at Davos 2023 that “power is very hostile to women”. Davos 2023 sessions related to this podcast:     Read more:  Subscribe on any platform: Join the Follow all the action from the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting 2023 at and across social media using the hashtag #WEF23. Check out all our podcasts on :  - - - -

At the Annual Meeting in Davos this year, we asked CEOs, activists and civil society leaders how leaders can prioritize what really matters despite a swirl of challenges: an energy crisis, a food crisis, geopolitical conflict, a potential economic downturn, and more. They shared their strategies and secrets -- from how they make time in their calendars and unlock 'people power', to how they tap 'unhealthy impatience'. Learn the 'tells' that reveal you're building momentum and the tough questions you must ask yourself to ensure your actions are really laddering up to your values.  In this episode:  Roy Jacobs, CEO, Royal Philips; Harmony Jade Wayner, vice-chair, Arctic Youth Network; Deborah Braide, sustainable energy leader and researcher, E-Guide; John Schultz, Chief Operating Officer, Hewlett Packard Enterprise; Blake Scholl, founder and CEO, Boom Supersonic; Alyssa Auberger, Chief Sustainability Officer, Baker Mackenzie; Delia Ferreira Rubio, Chair of Transparency International; Lynn Martin, president of NYSE Group; Geraldine Matchett, co-CEO and CFO, Royal DSM; Alex Liu, managing partner and chairman, Kearney; Becky Frankiewicz, Chief Commercial Officer, Manpower Group, Inc.; Dr. Andrew Steer, president and CEO, Bezos Earth Fund.

At the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting that ended days ago there was no bigger issue than the energy crisis - with its links to the challenges of climate change, geopolitics and the cost of living - what has come to be known as the ‘polycrisis’. On this episode, we hear from two people immersed in the discussions at Davos on why the global conversation on energy has changed, with climate change and the energy transition now firmly centre-stage. People on this episode: Roberto Bocca, Head of Shaping the Future of Energy and Materials, World Economic Forum John Defterios, World Economic Forum energy fellow Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission (addressing Davos 2023) António Guterres Secretary-General of the United Nations (addressing Davos 2023) Related episodes: Davos 2023 sessions relevant to this episode: Subscribe: Subscribe on any platform: Check out all our podcasts on wef.ch/podcasts:   Join the Follow all the action from the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting 2023 at and across social media using the hashtag #WEF23.

Driving growth, equity and transformative solutions to today’s challenges needs more gender-diverse leadership across the economy, politics and civil society. However, progress on parity is stalling globally. An expert panel asks: How can we create better pathways to advance more women into the highest levels of leadership? Speakers include: Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, Leader of the Democratic Forces of Belarus, Republic of Belarus; Masih Alinejad, Journalist and Activist, U.S. Agency for Global Media; Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of the State of Michigan, United States Office of the Governor; Arancha Gonzalez Laya,Dean, The Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA), Sciences Po This session was recorded 19 January at the World Economic Forum 2023 Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland.

What if the next time your smartphone broke, you could fix it yourself? The repairable, sustainable smartphone maker Fairphone does just that all while helping to wean consumers off the quest for the thinnest, latest gadget -- a cycle that simply adds tons of valuable materials to landfill annually. Founder Bas van Abel joins Meet the Leader for a frank talk about what’s really involved in making a smartphone, his journey from designer to device CEO, and the tough moments he faced in the startup’s early days to stay on track with the startup's sustainable mission. He’ll also share why he founded two startups tackling circularity (Fairphone and food waste startup De Clique) and what’s needed for true system change. He’ll also explain what excites him about social enterprise and how entrepreneurs with big ideas for sustainability can tackle multiple challenges at once, from working conditions to resource protection, helping to reshaping entire sectors and practices in the process.

Europe is facing a slow-growth, high-debt and high-inflation economy, even as labour markets remain persistently tight. With limited fiscal and monetary tools available, where can Europe's leaders find the space to deliver growth? A panel of top experts digs into this topic at the 2023 Annual Meeting in Davos Switzerland, including: Mark Rutte, Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Office of the Prime Minister of the Netherlands; Valdis Dombrovskis, Executive Vice-President for an Economy that Works for People; Commissioner for Trade, European Commission; Christian Sewing, Chief Executive Officer, Deutsche Bank AG; Christine LagardePresident, European Central Bank; Andrej Plenković, Prime Minister of Croatia, Office of the Prime Minister of Croatia. This conversation was recorded at the Annual Meeting in Davos Switzerland 19 January.

In the face of a 'polycrisis' - an energy crisis, a climate crisis, geopolitical conflict and a potential economic recession, what's needed to ensure global cooperation on climate action continues? Learn more from this panel held at the World Economic Forum 2023 Annual Meeting 18 January with top voices, including: Julia Chatterley, Anchor, CNN; Jesper Brodin, Chief Executive Officer, Ingka Group (IKEA); Helena Gualinga, Co-Founder, Indigenous Youth Collective of Amazon Defenders; Anna Borg, President and Chief Executive Officer, Vattenfall AB; Jennifer Morgan, State Secretary and Special Envoy for International Climate Action, Federal Foreign Office of Germany; John F. Kerry; Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, National Security Council (NSC). This session was developed in collaboration with CNN.

Emily Maitlis and Jon Sopel of the News Agents podcast join us to look at the final day at #wef23 where the global economy is in focus. Also: European Central Banker Christine Lagarde says she will take all measures needed to get inflation down; YouTuber Prajakta Koli on her first Davos experience; AI expert Vilas Dhar on the human side of technology; documentarist Immy Humes on her historic photos showing one woman among a group of men; and Yo-Yo Ma and Angélique Kidjo give an impromptu convert outside the podcast studio!   People in this episode: Yo-Yo Ma, cellist Angélique Kidjo, singer Emily Maitlis, Jon Sopel, hosts of the podcast Vilas Dhar, President, Patrick J. McGovern Foundation ​​ Prajakta Koli, YouTuber Christine Lagarde, European Central Bank President Immy Humes, documentary maker and author of   Sessions relevant to this episode:   Subscribe on any platform: Join the Follow all the action from the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting 2023 at and across social media using the hashtag #WEF23.

Alex Karp shares with Carlyle Group founder David Rubenstein how he founded and leads software company Palantir Technologies. This thoughtful, wide-ranging conversation covers serious topics such as how its work with governments powers anti-terror efforts and counters human rights abuses. It also includes its share of light and even funny moments, including Karp's non-traditional background, his hair and why he lives in the New Hampshire.backwoods.. This conversation was recorded at the Annual Meeting in Davos Switzerland 18 January. Subscribe on any platform: https://pod.link/1574956552 Follow all the action from the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting 2023 at wef.ch/wef23 and across social media using the hashtag #WEF23.

Does tech need a new business model? How will computing power drive the energy transition? What’s ahead for the tech skills gap? In a special conversation, the CEO of Microsoft talks to Klaus Schwab, World Economic Forum Founder and Executive Chairman about tech trends, AI, cybersecurity, economic growth and three trends driving the future of remote work. This conversation was recorded at the Annual Meeting in Davos Switzerland 18 January. For more information on the session, click here. SubscribeSubscribe on any platform: https://pod.link/1574956552 Join the World Economic Forum Podcast Club Follow all the action from the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting 2023 at wef.ch/wef23 and across social media using the hashtag #WEF23.

On today’s Radio Davos, co-hosted by ‘Exponential View’ writer, author and podcaster Azeem Azhar, UN Secretary-General warns of a ‘great fracture’ in the world, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis tells us the war in Ukraine affects the whole world. We talk to Caroline Casey of the disability inclusion campaign Valuable 500 and tour the art exhibition bringing the voice of refugees to Davos. “It is essential for the two countries to have meaningful engagement on climate trade and technology to avoid the decoupling of economies and even the possibility of future confrontations.” UN chief António Guterres says the world can well do without a ‘great fracture’ caused by rivalry between the United States and China. And he calls the continued exploration for fossil fuels the stuff of dystopian science fiction. Ty Greene, Project Lead, Health Equity at the World Economic Forum tells us about health equity and how companies leading are pledging to achieve it. Caroline Casey, founder and director of the Valuable 500 tells Linda Lacina’s Meet the Leader podcast about a surprising pivotal moment in her life that galvanized her life’s work.  Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis tells Radio Davos why the world needs to unite behind Ukraine. And we stroll up the stairs from the Radio Davos studio, in the heart of the Davos congress centre, to admire artwork created by refugee children around the world, and speak to the people behind the project, Brazilian artist Vik Muniz and Max Frieder of Artolution. People in this episode: Azeem Azhar, entrepreneur, author, podcaster, writer of Exponential View António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations Ty Greene, Project Lead, Health Equity, World Economic Forum Caroline Casey, Founder and Director, The Valuable 500 Gabrielius Landsbergis, Foreign Minister of Lithuania Max Frieder, Co-Founder, Chief Creative Officer, Artolution Vik Muniz, artist   Davos 2023 sessions related to this episode:

On Day 3 at Davos 2023, we enter the metaverse to experience the Forum’s Global Collaboration Village, hear why inflation may have peaked, but prices haven’t, and speak to astronaut Matthias Maurer. Heba Aly, of the podcast Rethinking Humanitarianism, co-hosts. We hear from recipients of the Crystal Awards Idris and Sabrina Elba. The boss of Unilever, a top IMF economist and Germany’s finance minister weigh in on the impact of inflation. We welcome into the Radio Davos booth astronaut Matthias Maurer. And we enter the metaverse to take a tour of the Global Collaboration Village. People in this episode Heba Aly, host of the podcast Rethinking Humanitarianism Sabrina Elba, United Nations International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) Goodwill Ambassador Idris Elba, Entrepreneur, Actor, Musician, UN IFAD Goodwill Ambassador Fatih Birol, Executive Director, International Energy Agency Olivier Schwab, Managing Director, World Economic Forum  Gill Einhorn, Head of Innovation and Transformation, Centre for Nature and Climate at the World Economic Forum Alan Jope, Chief Executive Officer, Unilever Gita Gopinath, First Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund Christian Lindner, Germany’s Federal Minister of Finance Olena Zelenska, First Lady of Ukraine Jaci Eisenberg, Head of Content Curation at the Global Collaboration Village Mark Curtis, co-lead, Accenture Metaverse continuum business group Elisabeth Papadopoulos, Creative Director, Accenture Metaverse continuum business group Nadia Botello, Audio Lead, Accenture Metaverse continuum business group Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum  Julie Sweet, Chair and Chief Executive Officer, Accenture Brad Smith, Vice-Chair and President, Microsoft Corp Sessions mentioned in the episode: Subscribe on any platform: Join the Follow all the action from the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting 2023 at and across social media using the hashtag #WEF23. Other links:

With inflation soaring and real wages falling, an expert panel asks: Have we seen the worst of inflation? Will the cost of living crisis get worse before it better? What role will productivity play? And do policy-makers need a new toolkit to tackle this challenge? Learn more from this panel held at the World Economic Forum 2023 Annual Meeting 17 January with top economic minds including: Christian Lindner, Federal Minister of Finance for Germany; Gita Gopinath, First Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund; Alan Jope, Chief Executive Officer, Unilever; and Laura Tyson, distinguished professor, Graduate School of Berkeley.  SubscribeSubscribe on any platform: https://pod.link/1574956552 Join the World Economic Forum Podcast Club Follow all the action from the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting 2023 at wef.ch/wef23 and across social media using the hashtag #WEF23.

It’s a fragmented world - can humanity learn to cooperate to solve the big issues? Bloomberg climate change reporter, host of the Zero podcast, Akshat Rathi, joins us to look at Day 2 of Davos 2023. Saadia Zahidi, head of the Forum’s Centre for the New Economy and Society picks her priorities for Davos 2023 and, as the World Economic Forum published its latest Chief Economists Outlook, ADP’s Chief Economist Nela Richardson gives her assessment of the economy in the year to come. Davos shines a spotlight on the situation in Iran, Iranian-British actress and activist Nazanin Boniadi tells us why the power of women is an unstoppable political force. Another Middle Eastern artist who uses her platform to campaign for human rights, singer Farah Siraj, often referred to as the ‘Music Ambassador of Jordan’, talks about the transformational power of music The head of energy at the Forum, Roberto Bocca tells us about important discussions in Davos on that crucial subject.  People on this episode: Akshat Rathi, host of the Zero podcast from Bloomberg Roberto Bocca, head of Energy, Materials and Infrastructure at the World Economic Forum Saadia Zahidi, head of the Forum’s Centre for the New Economy and Society Nela Richardson,  ADP Chief Economist Nazanin Boniadi, actress and activist Farah Siraj, singer and activist Subscribe on any platform: Join the Follow all the action from the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting 2023 at and across social media using the hashtag #WEF23.

More than 100 million displaced people struggle to find new work after fleeing war and chaos. To help refugees and asylum seekers find a true fresh start, Ingka Group (the chief owner and operator of IKEA retail) designed the Skills for Employment Initiative. With its 3-6 months of training in language and other critical job skills, displaced people can find meaningtul work at IKEA or other companies and get a true fresh start. In this episode, Ingka Group CEO Jesper Brodin shared the lessons he has learned from this initiative and how, if scaled, programs like this one could play an important role in everything from tackling labor shortages to strengthening economies. He also shared how programs like this one can reveal key hiring blindspots, ensuring leaders re-examine current hiring approaches to be more inclusive, less slow, and even less biased towards a certain types of profiles.

It’s Day 1 at Davos 2023. In this first of the daily shows that will drop every morning this week, we hear from the president of the World Economic Forum on what to expect, we hear about artificial intelligence that can prevent wildfires, we take a peek into the metaverse, and hear music played on an instrument with a 1,000 year history. People on this episode: Linda Lacina, host of the Meet the Leader podcast. Børge Brende, president of the World Economic Forum Kay Firth-Butterfield, Head of Artificial Intelligence at the Forum Cathy Lil,  head of Shaping the Future of Media, Entertainment & Sport at the Forum Joseph Tawadros Oud player, James Tawadros, percussionist  Subscribe to Radio Davos on any platform: Check out all our podcasts on :   Join the

Ahead of the 2023 Annual Meeting, Makhtar Diop, the Managing Director and Executive Vice President of the International Finance Corporation (IFC), shares a special funding initiative designed to confront the food crisis, one that can also help address other issues including financial resilience for farmers and more sustainable solutions for the climate. Success requires new forms of collaboration and drives home one of the key themes of this year's global conference in Davos, 'Cooperation in a fragmented world.' Diop also shares what gives him hope, what keeps him up at night, and what he hopes leaders should prioritise at this year's conference in Davos.  These resources can help you learn more about the topics in this episode: IFC: The IFC is the private sector arm of the World Bank, and describes itself as ‘the largest global development institution focused on the private sector in developing countries. Learn more here: Global Food Security Platform: this IFC initiative is tackling the overlapping crises simultaneously including the food crisis, financial resilience and climate change. Learn more here. OPC: The world’s largest producer of phosphate-based fertilizers is a Strategic Partner at the World Economic Forum and announced a plan in October to dedicate 4 million tonnes of fertilizers to strengthen food security in Africa. Learn more here

Carolyn Kousky is the Associate Vice President for Economics and Policy at the Environmental Defense Fund and the author of Understanding Disaster Insurance: New Tools for a More Resilient Future. In this episode, Kousky dives deep into the world of insurance markets, exposing major vulnerabilities and detailing how private and public partnerships can help built insurance models that are capable of responding to the climate crisis.

Ahead of the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos, we look at two issues that will be at the heart of many discussions: energy and jobs. We discuss a new report, , with David Rabley who leads the energy transition practice for oil and gas at Accenture, and Roberto Bocca, Head of Energy, Materials and Infrastructure at the World Economic Forum. And in the second half, Saadia Zahidi, head of the World Economic Forum’s Centre for the New Economy and Society, talks about the - another new report, that looks at the rapidly changing world of work, with a focus on the green jobs and the care economy. Links: Don't miss our other Davos 2023 preview episode, on the Global Risks Report: Check out all our podcasts on :   Join the

The cost of living crisis around the world is the number one risk in the short-term, according to the latest Global Risks Report, but climate change remains the greatest challenge in the medium and long term. In this episode we hear from two of the people involved in creating the Global Risks Report - required reading ahead of the Annual Meeting in Davos - Carolina Klint, managing director at Marsh, and Peter Giger, Group Chief Risk Officer at Zurich Insurance Group. 'As 2023 begins, the world is facing a set of risks that feel both wholly new and eerily familiar.' So reads the executive summary of the Global Risks Report 2023, the result of a major annual survey conducted by the World Economic Forum in collaboration with Marsh McLennan and Zurich Insurance Group. 'We've seen a return of older risks inflation, cost of living crises, trade wars, capital outflows from emerging markets, widespread social unrest, geopolitical confrontation, and the spectre of nuclear warfare which few of this generation's business leaders or public policymakers have experienced.' The Global Risks Report is a fascinating read. It looks at short-term and long-term perceptions. And in the longer term, or the medium term, the threat posed by climate change is the top risk on a ten-year time horizon. But in the short term, worries about natural disasters and extreme weather fall to second place, pushed off the top spot by the cost of living crisis. You can find the report at . It's required reading ahead of the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting in Davos where figures from government, business, academia and civil society will come together to discuss the world's most pressing issues. Report Link: Executive Summary: Press Conference livestream and replay link: Follow all the action from the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting 2023 at and across social media using the hashtag #WEF23. Subscribe on any platform: Join the Check out all our podcasts on wef.ch/podcasts:  

Hiring has never been easy, but economic shifts, global crises and explosive demand for new skills has made finding talent harder. Mourshed discusses the models and mindsets her global non-profit uses to train and place adult learners and candidates that might be overlooked around the globe ensuring businesses can tap into and develop new pipelines of talent. She also shares how remote work can tackle job deserts, why buzzwords like quiet quitting provide an incomplete picture of labor challenges and helps leaders identify the hiring blind spots that might be holding their organizations back.

In the first episode of 2023, Kate Whiting speaks to academics and authors Professor Andrew Pettegree and Dr Arthur der Weduwen about their book The Library: A Fragile History. They discuss why, despite our love of collecting books, they have often been neglected and become tools and targets during times of war, while romance novels have gone from scourge to saviour of the modern-day library.

In this last episode of 2022, host Beatrice Di Caro and Kate Whiting look back at some of their favourite reads of the year, collate top reads from around the World Economic Forum, and share some of the best quotes from authors who have been on the Book Club Podcast. These include Adam Grant, Elif Shafak and Booker Prize winner Shehan Karunatilaka.

What’s inspired, informed, delighted and impressed the top leaders in business and civil society? In this second annual book recommendation episode, learn the top books recommended by CEOs, economists, government leaders and more in 2022. You’ll be reminded of the staying power of definitive business books (‘Made to Stick’, ‘Grit’), discover what new books tech leaders can’t put down ( ‘A Thousand Brains’), which books can help you better understand the economy (‘21st Century Monetary Policy’).and what classic children’s books can teach you about leadership. In this episode:  Bas von Abel, Founder, Fairphone; Justin Bibb, Mayor, Cleveland; James Chen, Philanthropist and Founder, Clearly; Chano Fernandez, Former Co-CEO Workday; Andrea Fuder, Chief Purchasing Officer, Volvo Group; Cristina Gamboa, CEO, World Building Council; Jane Gilbert, Chief Heat Officer, Miami-Dade County; Justin Hotard, EVP & GM, High Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence, Hewlett Packard Enterprise; Barbara Humpton, President and CEO of Siemens Corporation; Leif Johansson Non-Executive, Chair of the Board; AstraZeneca; Stephanie Linnartz, President, Marriott International; Alex Liu, Managing Partner and Chairman, Kearney; Tjada Mckenna, CEO, Mercy Corps; Tolullah Oni, Epidemiologist; Kahea Pacheco, Co Executive Director, Women's Earth Alliance; Shez Partovi, Chief Innovation and Strategy Officer, Philips; Nela Richardson, Chief Economist, ADP; Pete Stavros, Founder, Ownership Works; Kristian Teleki, Director, Friends of Ocean Action.

From machine learning to quantum sensing and the metaverse - these CEOs pick out the tech we should all be watching. This episode was previously published on our sister podcast . Subscribe to that here:  Check out all our podcasts on : -  -   -   -  Join the  Join the 

Paul Daugherty is the Chief Technology Officer at Accenture and co-author of Radically Human: How New Technology Is Transforming Business and Shaping Our Future. In this episode, he discusses how the pandemic accelerated a shift towards a more human-centered use of AI technology and how artificial intelligence will drive four key areas for companies to be successful in future: talent, trust, experiences, and sustainability.

Technologies are reshaping everything from how we work and relate to one another, to how we deliver healthcare, pursue an education, and manufacture goods. In interviews recorded at the Annual Meeting in Davos, the Global Technology Governance Retreat in June in San Francisco, and even the Urban Transformation Summit in Detroit his fall, leaders share how quantum sensing, the metaverse or data and a range of other tech will drive new shifts. They'll also share how these changes will put new demands on leaders and how they can navigate those changes best. Featured in this episode: Jeremy Bailenson, founding director of Stanford University’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab; C.P. Gurnani, CEO, Tech Mahindra; Jack Hidary, CEO, SandboxAQ; Justin Hotard, Executive Vice President and General Manager at Hewlett Packard Enterprise; Barbara Humpton, CEO, Siemens Corporation; George Oliver, CEO, Johnson Controls; Igor Tulchinsky, Founder, Chairman and CEO of WorldQuant.

In this episode, author Jon Alexander joins us to discuss his book Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything Is All of Us. How can we become better citizens? That is the question this book studies, looking at how people and societies moved from the subject story of kings and empires to the current consumer story. He argues it is now time to enter the citizen story.

In this episode, Zambian-born economist and author Dr. Dambisa Moyo discusses her latest book, How Boards Work: And How They Can Work Better in a Chaotic World. In it, she examines the traditional role of boards and suggests how they can adapt to the needs of a 21st-century marketplace.

Mina Guli is running 200 marathons in a year to raise awareness about water; Lewis Pugh swam across the Red Sea for climate change action. Meet the campaigners pushing their bodies to the limit in the hope of changing the world.   Guests: Mina Guli:  Lewis Pugh:  Hear a previous Radio Davos with him:  Also mentioned: Related episodes: Matt Damon talks to Radio Davos about his work on water: The World Economic Forum’s UpLiink platform is looking for innovative solutions on freshwater: Check out all our podcasts on : Join the 

Figures from business, government and civil society share their reflections on COP27, in a discussion hosted by the World Economic Forum just before the climate conference concluded. Speakers:  Antonia Gawel, Head, Climate Change, World Economic Forum (moderator) Janet Ranganathan, Vice-President, Science and Research, World Resources Institute Jesper Brodin, Chief Executive Officer, Ingka Group (IKEA) James Mnyupe, Presidential Economic Adviser; Green Hydrogen Commissioner Office of the President of Namibia Anish Shah, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Mahindra Group Pato Kelesitse, climate activist

In this special compilation episode timed to the COP 27 Climate Summit in Egypt, CEOs and government leaders share surprising and innovative approaches to scaling climate action. Featured in this episode: Rania Al-Mashat, the Egyptian minister for international cooperation; Patrick Decker, CEO, Xylem; George Oliver, CEO and chairman of Johnson Controls; Barbara Humpton, CEO, Siemens Corporation; Tjada D'Oyen McKenna, CEO, Mercy Corps; Mohammad Jafaar, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Kuwaiti Danish Dairy Company; Eric Rondolat, CEO, Signify.

The water we drink and use to wash and irrigate our crops is precious, and becoming ever more so due to climate change.The World Economic Forum’s UpLink platform wants to hear from you if you have innovative ideas on how to tackle the problem.On this episode, Roshni Nadar Malhotra, chairperson of HCL Technologies which is backing the search for innovations, joins UpLink’s Emanuela Orsini to discuss the issue.We also hear from entrepreneur Friso Klapwijk, whose company Wavin has created smart roofs to capture rainwater in cities. Guests: Emanuela Orsini, UpLink Digital Content Specialist at the World Economic Forum Roshni Nadar Malhotra, Chairperson, HCL Technologies Friso Klapwijk, Global Director of Urban Climate Resilience, Wavin The Global Freshwater Challenge on UpLink:  Learn more about our innovators and other innovation challenges on UpLink:  Check out all our podcasts on :     Join the  Episode transcript:

As COP27 begins in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, Radio Davos looks at the main themes, and talks to the head of climate action at the World Economic Forum about the role of business. Guest: Antonia Gawel, head of climate action at the World Economic Forum Open letter from the Alliance of CEO Climate Leaders: First Movers Coalition:  Check out all our podcasts on :    Join the  Episode transcript:

As the UN Climate Summit COP27 begins this month, here are 6 books - from ‘Braiding Sweetgrass’ to ‘Speed and Scale’ that have shaped, inspired and informed top climate leaders. In this episode: Al Gore, former US Vice President and founder of the Climate Reality Project; Activist Jane Goodall, Ezgi Barcenas, AB InBev’s Chief Sustainability Officer; Kristian Teleki, executive director, Friends of Ocean Action; Cristina Gamboa, CEO, World Green Building Council; Jane Gilbert, the Chief Heat Officer of Florida's Miami-Dade County; Kahea Pacheco, the co-executive director of the Women's Earth Alliance.

Zero is a new podcast from Bloomberg Green which looks at climate change and how we might use policy, technology and investment to achieve the huge reductions in greenhouse gas emissions needed to avert the worst of global warming. Its host Akshat Rathi talks about how he tackled one of the world’s biggest, most complex issues, and talks us through some recent interviews. Speakers featured on clips from Zero: Bryony Worthington, UK legislator Gabriel Kra co-founder of Prelude Ventures Bill Gates, business person and ‘tecno optimist’ Justin Trudeau, Canadian prime minister Check out all our podcasts on :     Join the Episode transcript: 

In this episode, author Shehan Karunatilaka discusses the inspirations for his Booker Prize-winning novel The Seven Moons Of Maali Almeida. It tells the story of a Sri Lankan war photographer, who realises he’s in a processing centre for souls in the afterlife and sets out to solve his own murder, which involves leading his friends to a box of incriminating photos under a bed. 

Ahead of the COP27 global climate summit, this special compilation episode collects interview excerpts from a range of leaders in government, business, and civil society about what leaders must put first for climate action. Leaders share a range of commitments they’d like to see move forward as well as insights on priorities that are often overlooked, including the role women play in climate change solutions, how ocean action can reduce emissions, the importance of scalable innovation and more. Includes interviews with: Rania Al-Mashat, Egypt's Minister for International Cooperation; Kahea Pacheco, co-director, Women’s Earth Alliance; Kristian Teleki, Director, Friends of Ocean Action; Ezgi Barcenas, Chief Sustainability Officer, Anheuser-Busch In-Bev; Barbara Humpton, CEO, Siemens USA; Jane Gilbert, Chief Heat Officer, Miami-Dade County, Florida; Frans van Houten, former Phillips CEO.

Humans are about to return to the Moon, and are working on a mission to Mars. Former NASA chief scientist Ellen Stofan explains why space exploration is so important for humanity. And why it can help us protect our 'pale blue dot' of a planet.] Guest:  Dr. Ellen Stofan, Under Secretary for Science and Research at The Smithsonian Interview by: Nikolai Khlystov, Lead, Future of Space, Shaping the Future of Mobility, World Economic Forum. More space from the Forum:  Other Radio Davos episodes on space: Check out all our podcasts on :     Join the  Episode transcript:

Gene therapy is one of the fastest growing areas of healthcare with over 2,000 therapies in development globally. The new techniques could challenge some of the world’s most feared diseases, including HIV and cancer, But the enormous cost means poorer countries could miss out, and the fact that R&D is concentrated in richer countries means the therapies developed there might not always be suitable for use in other parts of the world. This episode of the Radio Davos podcast hears from a senior healthcare figure in Uganda on what needs to be done.   Speakers:   , Executive Director of the Joint Clinical Research Centre in Uganda , Hoffmann Fellow, Precision Medicine and Emerging Biotechnologies, World Economic Forum Useful links: Joint Clinical Research Centre Facebook: CRISPRpedia Website: WEF white paper   Check out all our podcasts on wef.ch/podcasts:   Join the Episode transcript:

Joy is key to tackling big challenges - especially during a time of uncertainty. Leaders share strategies to rethink everything from meetings, individual success, to-do lists and more. This episode features insights from: Nela Richardson, Chief Economist, ADP; Alex Liu, Managing Partner and Chairman, Kearney; Chano Fernandez, Co-CEO, Workday.

From floods to wildfires and hurricanes across the globe, climate change is causing more frequent and catastrophic extreme weather events. In this episode, environmental journalist Gaia Vince sets out the central thesis of her book 'Nomad Century' which envisages a world where climate change forces as many as 1 billion people to migrate in the coming decades - and how the world can work together to cope. Transcript:  Join the BookClub And the Podcast Club Check out all our podcasts on :  

Every big company has a Chief Executive Officer - a CEO - many have CFOs and COOs but how many have a CXO, a chief exploration officer? Davis Wallerstein is an American at a big Chinese tech firm, Tencent. He explains what he does as CXO and how sustainability is at the heart of what he is exploring around the world. A version of this interview was published as an episode of our sister podcast Meet the Leader.   Check out all our podcasts on :     Join the   Episode transcript: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/10/chief-exploration-officer-tencent-wallerstein-radio-davos

Ezgi Barcenas, the CSO of beverage giant Anheuser-Busch InBev, explains how holacratic methods that swap rigid protocol for empowered, cross-functional teams can give organizations the flexibility they'll need to adapt to new sustainability challenges and spur the swift action needed to tackle climate change.

Food production has a huge impact on climate change. And climate change has a huge impact on our ability to produce the food we need. As the war in Ukraine creates additional challenges to the global food and energy markets, a panel of experts looks at ways food production and consumption can adapt to address some of these huge issues, This podcast is the audio from a session at the World Economic Forum’s Sustainable Development Impact Meetings 2022. Participants:  Adrian Monck, Managing Director, World Economic Forum Geneva (moderator) Jason Bordoff, Co-Dean, Columbia Climate School; Founding Director, Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University Geraldine Matchett, Co-Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, Royal DSM NV Sam Kass, Partner, Acre Venture Partners Máximo Torero. Chief Economist, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Watch the session here: https://www.weforum.org/events/sustainable-development-impact-meetings-2022/sessions/food-and-energy-tackling-a-global-resource-crisis Transcript: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/10/food-climate-energy-agenda-dialogues Check out all our podcasts on wef.ch/podcasts:  Radio Davos Meet the Leader  WEF Book Club Podcast Agenda Dialogues Join the World Economic Forum Podcast Club Catch up on all the action from the World Economic Forum’s Sustainable Development Impact Meeting 2022 at https://www.weforum.org/events/sustainable-development-impact-meetings-2022 and across social media, using the hashtag  #SDIM22.

Francis Kéré made history earlier this year as the first African person to win Architecture’s honor: the Pritzker Prize. He discussed the ways his architecture can reshape communities and opportunity - all while driving sustainability and building national pride. He also shared the surprising challenges he faced building one of his most famous projects - and the lessons those experiences taught him about rejection, resilience and making change happen.

What’s going on in the global economy? It is a question that the World Economic Forum’s  seeks to answer every three months with its .For large parts of the world inflation is high and rising, cutting deep into people’s real incomes - and posing dilemmas for policymakers in governments and central banks who want to stop prices spiraling but also want to avoid a deep, lengthy economic recession. So what will happen? In this episode we get the views of three experts: Rima Bhatia, Economic Adviser at Gulf International Bank in Bahrain Guy Miller, Chief Market Strategist at Zurich Insurance Santi Sathirathai, Chief Economist at the Singapore-based internet company Sea   The audio was recorded at the launch of the  which was hosted by the World Economic Forum’s Adrian Monck and Saadia Zahidi.   Check out all our podcasts on :        Join the   Episode transcript:    

Disinformation is not new. Examples of disinformation and so-called fake news campaigns are plentiful. But with increasing fears about the cost of living – exacerbated by the pandemic and the energy crisis – it is now more critical than ever to tackle disinformation head-on.This podcast contains the audio from an Agenda Dialogue discussion at the Sustainable Development Impact Meetings 2022 on how the public, regulators and social media companies can collaborate to increase online safety. Participants: Adrian Monck, Managing Director, World Economic Forum Geneva (moderator) Melissa Fleming, Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications, United Nations Rachel Smolkin, Senior Vice-President, Global News, CNN Digital Worldwide Claire Wardle, Professor, Brown University School of Public Health Transcript: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/09/tackling-disinformation-agenda-dialogues Watch the session: https://www.weforum.org/events/sustainable-development-impact-meetings-2022/sessions/tackling-disinformation Check out all our podcasts on wef.ch/podcasts: Radio Davos Meet the Leader  WEF Book Club Podcast Agenda Dialogues Join the World Economic Forum Podcast Club Catch up on all the action from the World Economic Forum’s Sustainable Development Impact Meeting 2022 at https://www.weforum.org/events/sustainable-development-impact-meetings-2022 and across social media, using the hashtag #SDIM22.

Inflation is a major concern around the world - for economic policymakers, for companies and for all of us who are seeing prices rise faster than our incomes.We’ve covered the issue on several previous episodes of Radio Davos - see links below. On this episode we hear from two experts who appeared on a video show hosted by Abhinav Chugh who works in the World Economic Forum’s Strategic Intelligence platform, which joins the dots between the multitude of causes and effects that impact our world.The audio you are about to hear is from the video series called Our World in Transformation that puts out to the World Economic Forum’s digital  members every two weeks, and, as you’ll hear, some of the questions he puts to the guests are from those members. You can sign up at the website    On this episode, Abhinav speaks to Sandra Phlippen, Chief Economist at ABN AMRO bank, and Erik Peterson, partner and managing director at the consultancy Kearney. He starts with a look at the 2 percent inflation target that many central banks try to achieve --  with inflation in the US and Europe around 8 or 9% at present, he asks Sandra Phlippen if she thinks inflation can be wrestled down to that 2% level by next year.   Previous episodes on related topics: What is inflation, and should we worry? An economist explains (with UBS Chief Economist Paul Donovan) Ukraine, inflation and pandemics: the big issues in a changed world, according to historian Adam Tooze What's next for the global economy? Experts talk inflation, stagnation and (de-)globalisation at Davos 2022 Check out all our podcasts on :    Join the  Episode transcript:

In the run-up to the next climate summit, COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, World Economic Forum President Børge Brende convened a panel of experts at the Sustainable Development Impact Meeting 2022 to take stock of global efforts to tackle the crisis.This Agenda Dialogues episode is the full audio of that session. Participants: Rania Al-Mashat, Minister of International Cooperation of Egypt Svein Tore Holsether, President and Chief Executive Officer, Yara International ASA Ville Skinnari, Minister for Development Cooperation and Foreign Trade of Finland Andrew Steer, President and Chief Executive Officer, Bezos Earth Fund Watch the session here:https://www.weforum.org/events/sustainable-development-impact-meetings-2022/sessions/the-geo-economics-of-climate-change Transcript: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/09/COP27-climate-change-SDIM-agenda dialogues Check out all our podcasts on wef.ch/podcasts: Radio Davos Meet the Leader WEF Book Club Podcast Agenda Dialogues Join the World Economic Forum Podcast ClubCatch up on all the action from the World Economic Forum’s Sustainable Development Impact Meeting 2022 at https://www.weforum.org/events/sustainable-development-impact-meetings-2022 and across social media, using the hashtag #SDIM22.

In his unique role as Chief Exploration Officer, Wallerstein searches the world for moonshot investments in innovations that could change the world - ones that could even tackle climate change. He talks about the potential he sees and the technologies that could slash emissions while reshaping how we travel live and work. He also explains how he’s changed as a leader, and how we can do everything we do now, just better and greener.

Liu believes a 'Great Reflection' lay at the heart of the the COVID-19 'Great Resignation.' More disruption is ahead and he explains that tackling the big challenges to come will take teams who've tapped into their purpose. On this episode, the managing partner shares what's needed to unlock talent in the months ahead, from rethinking routines (and meetings) to prioritizing joy at work.

What’s the connection between Jimmy Wales, Amal Clooney, Emmanuel Macron, Jacinda Ardern and ? Answer? They’re all Young Global Leaders. So what are ‘YGLs’ and how does being part of that group help people - with diverse backgrounds and world views - work for the greater public good? On this episode of Radio Davos we talk to the person who leads the Forum of Young Global Leaders at the World Economic Forum, and to three alumni who each work in very different sectors and parts of the world. Host: Robin Pomeroy Guests: Wadia Ait Hamza, Head of the Forum of Young Global Leaders Fatoumata Ba, Founder & Executive Chair of Janngo Capital Omar Sultan Al Olama, Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence, Digital Economy and Remote Work Applications at Government of the United Arab Emirates Lara Setrakian, Journalist and Entrepreneur Reporting by Greta Ruffino More information: Transcript: 

1.4 billion adults have no access to banking - that means it’s harder for them to save, to borrow, to send money or to start a business - than for those of us that do.Our guest on Radio Davos is an expert on the global state of people’s access to financial services, who helped create the , a huge survey on financial inclusion , a Lead Economist in the Finance and Private Sector Research Team of the Development Research Group at the World Bank, has a truly global view of this issue. She tells Radio Davos why financial inclusion - which is, fortunately, on the rise - can be crucial in eliminating poverty and improving lives.   Also mentioned on this podcast: The  from the World Economic Forum,  with data from 1,448 fintech firms from 192 countries. Host: Robin Pomeroy Editing: Jere Johannson Studio production: Gareth Nolan Transcript: 

This space tech CEO will explain how space services -such as launching satellites and delivering payloads to orbit - will build a growing space economy that can help us better live on earth. He shares what he learned defining cloud computing at NASA, building a shopping tool for Kroger and what he shares with students in the class he teaches on failure at Stanford’s business school.

Carbon offsets are when a polluting company buys a carbon credit to make up for the greenhouse gas it has emitted. The money should be used to fund action somewhere in the world that remove the same amount of carbon out of the air, or to prevent carbon emissions. Detractors say that offsetting is ‘greenwash’, allowing companies to avoid cutting their emissions while still being able to claim they are, or will be, carbon neutral. Proponents say offsetting, if done properly, can help channel funds to conservation and sustainable development projects that will reduce emissions, giving companies time to work towards zero emissions. On this podcast, we hear from Rachel Kyte, co-chair of the  which is building a rulebook that aims to ensure offsetting does what it claims to do. And we hear from Dharsono Hartono, CEO of , an Indonesian company  that manages the Katingan Mentaya Project, a forest in Borneo, Indonesia, that generates carbon credits. Written and presented by Robin Pomeroy Editing: Jere Johansson Studio production: Gareth Nolan Transcript:  Report due out in second half of September 2022: 

Yoni Assia, founder and CEO of social investment network eToro, shares why he founded the Good Dollar Project and how digital finance can be a force for good and financial empowerment.

Stewart Butterfield, Slack's co-founder and CEO, shares how leaders can navigate uncertainty while helping to make their teams more effective. He shares mindsets that can drive leaders to rethink outdated incentives and everyday practices (like the classic meeting) to reboot how companies tap their teams' capabilities. He shares questions leaders can ask themselves, what he's working on as a leader and the Slack tip he can't work without.

When Denise Bradley-Tyson’s husband - former Kaiser Permanente CEO Bernard J Tyson - passed away, she took on his work to bridge health equity gaps. Working with the American Heart Association, she’s helped drive the creation of a special fund that provides grants and low interest loans to social entrepreneurs and not-for-profits, ensuring both the funding and technical expertise needed to help new projects grow. She’ll explain how health access gaps can be bridged through entrepreneurship, prosperity, grassroots efforts - and people who lead with their hearts.

BlackRock Chief Investment Officer Pam Chan shares how living up to ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) standards will require new perspectives and partnerships. She explains how future leaders will need to think differently and move out of comfort zones to take sustainability further - while outlining the everyday habits and practices successful leaders will put into practice.

Radio Davos is the weekly podcast from the World Economic Forum that looks at the world’s biggest challenges and how we might solve them. This episode looks at some of our best stories from the last 12 months, and we hear from our sister podcasts, Meet the Leader, Agenda Dialogues, and the new World Economic Forum Book Club Podcast. Guests include: Samantha Cristoforetti, astronaut Nick Clegg, President for Global Affairs at Meta Gregory Daco, Chief Economist at EY-Parthenon Gita Gopinath, First Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund Vicki Hollub, CEO of Occidental Petroleum John Kerry, US climate envoy Adam McKay, film maker Lewis Pugh, endurance swimmer Stuart Russell, Professor of Computer Science a Elif Shafak, author Peter Schwartz, Peter Schwartz, Futurist & SVP of Strategic Planning, Salesforce Adam Tooze, Director, European Institute, Columbia University Saadia Zahidi, head of the World Economic Forum’s Centre for the New Economy and Society Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine   Transcript: 

As Chief Purchasing Officer, Andrea Fuder has a unique insight into supply networks and how those relationships impact everything from climate action to human rights. She sees each sourcing decision as a ‘wedding’ and shares the factors she weighs when vetting new partnerships and finding leaders she can trust in the long-term. She also shares how leaders can be resilient amid supply chain disruption, the advice she shares with young leaders and a charming book she recommends.

If we want to understand the war in Ukraine, and why it matters to the world, we need to know its history, says Yale Professor Timothy Snyder. The American historian, whose books include ‘Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin’ and ‘On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century’, is interviewed by World Economic Forum Social Video Producer Kateryna Gordiychuk. Transcript:  Find all our podcasts at  And join the World Economic Forum Podcast Club at 

Shez Partovi is a former physician turned Chief Innovation & Strategy Officer at Royal Philips whose early career helping patients taught him critical lessons about building truly innovative solutions to tackle tough problems. He'll take us through the questions that you should ask yourself to ensure you’re considering the right evidence, setting the right priorities and truly pushing innovation forward.

Laura Battle, Deputy Books Editor at the Financial Times, tells us how social media, especially #BookTok, has changed the global publishing industry and gives her own recommendations for summer reading. And Ella Berthoud, a ‘bibliotherapist’ who uses the power of books to help people through tough times and who wrote ‘The Novel Cure: An A to Z of Literary Remedies’ lists her favourite escapist fiction. The interviews in this episode were previously published on the World Economic Forum Bookclub Podcast. Transcript: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/07/book-club-summer-books-2022 Join the Book Club: https://www.facebook.com/groups/worldeconomicforumbookclub And the Podcast Club: wef.ch/podcasts

As summer sizzles in the northern hemisphere, this episode brings you top recommendations for books to pack on your vacation, and reading that will transport you far from home without you having to go anywhere. Laura Battle, Deputy Books Editor at the Financial Times, gives her book picks and also tells us how social media, particularly TikTok’s #BookTok, has disrupted the global publishing industry and had a big impact on business. And Ella Berthoud, a ‘bibliotherapist’ who uses the power of books to help people through tough times and who wrote ‘The Novel Cure: An A to Z of Literary Remedies’, lists her favourite escapist fiction. Transcript: Join the Book Club And the Podcast Club

In the face of a potential global recession, how can you lead the best team in the best conditions possible? Kearney Senior Partner and Managing Director Stefan Marcu shares the questions leaders should ask themselves about everything from hiring to spending – and the contingency plans they should be making now. He also shares how the pandemic shaped him as a leader and how compassion can help leaders better prepare their teams for the changes ahead.

Oxy’s CEO shares her thoughts on how energy markets will shift and what’s needed to fund the energy transition. As one of the first women to run a major US oil and gas firm, she also shares how she’s changed as a leader, the traits she depends on - and the training every person in the C-suite needs to bridge the gender gap.

Research shows that despite some progress, gender gaps in pay, leadership and more aren’t shrinking fast enough in a range of categories. Top female leaders share what’s needed to break down assumptions, build networks and improve living standards widely, stressing the training every exec will need and even the right place to sit in a meeting to get ideas heard. Episode features: Vicki Hollub, CEO, Occidental Petroleum; Pam Chan, Chief Investment Officer, BlackRock; Ebru Ozdemir, Chairperson, Limak; Nela Richardson, Chief Economist, ADP; Anna-Katrina Shedletsky, Co-founder, Instrumental.

‘The Motherhood Penalty: How to stop motherhood being the kiss of death for your career’ looks at the reasons why women’s careers suffer when they have children, and what can be done about it. The author, Joeli Brearley, is also founder of the UK campaigning charity Pregnant Then Screwed. Robin Pomeroy sits in for regular host Beatrice Di Caro. Interview by Kate Whiting.   Read the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2022:   Join the World Economic Forum Book Club on Facebook:   

The World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap report collates data on gender equality from 146 countries looking at the opportunities and obstacles for women, in the workplace, in education, business and politics. The Forum’s Saadia Zahidi talks us through the highlights and explains why we will all win if societies can close the gender gap.Read the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2022:  Interview by Gayle Markowitz

The World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap report collates data on gender equality from 146 countries looking at the opportunities and obstacles for women, in the workplace, in education, business and politics. The Forum’s Saadia Zahidi talks us through the highlights and explains why we will all win if societies can close the gender gap.Read the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2022:  Interview by Gayle Markowitz

What are humans doing in space and why are we talking about bases on the Moon or missions to Mars when there is so much here on Earth that requires our immediate attention? We hear from two people involved in the business of space - one of whom visited space last year, the other who is convinced there will be a city of 1 million humans on Mars. And we link up with the International Space Station to speak to astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti.

The World Economic Forum’s Global Cybersecurity Outlook report indicates that cyberattacks increased 125% globally in 2021, with evidence suggesting a continued uptick through 2022. In this fast-changing landscape it is vital for leaders to take a strategic approach to cyber risks.How can leaders better prepare for future cyber shocks? What individual and collective actions will foster a more secure and resilient digital ecosystem?This is the full audio from a panel discussion at the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting 2022 in Davos Moderator: Karen Tso, CNBC InternationalSpeakers: Jürgen Stock, Secretary-General, International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) Josephine Teo, Minister for Communications and Information of Singapore Chander Prakash Gurnani, Chief Executive Officer, Tech Mahindra Limited Robert M. Lee, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, Dragos Read the Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2022 here: https://www.weforum.org/reports/global-cybersecurity-outlook-2022/ Transcript: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/07/global-cybersecurity-outlook-davos-2022

In ‘The End Of Bias: How We Change Our Minds,’ Jessica Nordell, a science writer for publications including the New York Times, looks at what causes us to discriminate against other people, often without even realizing it, and the cognitive science and social psychology that can help change our ways of thinking. Join the World Economic Forum Book Club on Facebook: 

Why do we work five days a week? Could we be just as productive, and healthier and happier working four days? Experts from government, academia and industry debate the issue at Davos 2022. Speakers: Adam Grant, Saul P. Steinberg Professor of Management and Psychology, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania Ohood Bint Khalfan Al Roumi, Minister of State for Government Development and the Future, United Arab Emirates Government Jonas Prising, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, ManpowerGroup Inc. Hilary Cottam, Social Entrepreneur, Centre for the Fifth Social Revolution Anne-Marie Slaughter, Chief Executive Officer, New America Learn more: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/06/four-day-work-week-davos-2022

Greg Daco, chief economist at EY-Parthenon, talks about the multiple challenges facing the global economy and gives his view on, among other things, whether the global slowdown and rising inflation will combine to create the dreaded ‘stagflation’.

After years of disruption, can the world return to normal? In a special one-on-one-conversation at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, founder Klaus Schwab talks to CEO Albert Bourla for his take on how the COVID-19 pandemic will evolve - and how technologies and vaccines will change with it. Bourla also shares the surprising factors that made the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine possible and what those difficult days taught him about collaboration, tackling big goals, and how to make life-saving medicines available to the world's most vulnerable.

Ian Bremmer, author and founder of the research and consulting firm Eurasia Group, says while many of the global bodies created after the Second World War are no longer fit to cope with today’s crises, the size of those crises themselves, might compel them to reform and renew.

How can leaders navigate economic uncertainty? We asked Nela Richardson, the chief economist at ADP, to share the stats she's tracking now and the surprising long-term trends she's seeing. She explained how workers’ needs have transformed in recent years, how workers and employers might act differently in the next recession, and why some of the most important metrics right now have nothing to do with economics.

Can banks and investors shift to climate-friendly business in a way that will have a global impact on slashing greenhouse gases? This panel discussion at Davos 2022 goes into the details of this complex but crucial part of the fight against climate catastrophe. Speakers: Mark Carney, UN Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance Anne Richards, Chief Executive Officer, Fidelity International Makhtar Diop, Managing Director, International Finance Corporation (IFC) Celine Herweijer, Group Chief Sustainability Officer, HSBC David Schwimmer, Chief Executive Officer, London Stock Exchange Group Moderator: Martin Wolf, Associate Editor and Chief Economics Commentator, The Financial Times

Ahmad Joudeh, a dancer with the Dutch National Ballet, performed at Davos 2022. We hear how he fended off violent opposition to his dancing from his own father and Islamist militants, and how he is using his platform to speak up for million of people who, like him, grow up as stateless refugees.

On this panel at Davos 2022: Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund Jane Fraser, Chief Executive Officer, Citi François Villeroy de Galhau, Governor, Central Bank of France David M. Rubenstein, Co-Founder and Co-Chairman, The Carlyle Group Moderator: Geoff Cutmore, Anchor, CNBC

With every crisis people declare the end of globalization, but Thomas Friedman argues that, despite war, economic uncertainty and unrest, there are many reasons to believe globalization is stronger than ever. This is the audio of a conversation he had with World Economic Forum Managing Director Adrian Monck at the Forum’s Annual Meeting 2022 in Davos.

Nick Clegg, president for global affairs at Meta, came into the Radio Davos booth to explain his new role at the parent company of Facebook, and to set out his vision of the metaverse and why we need to ensure now that it will be a place people can move around freely and not be locked in to any one company’s version of what he says is the inevitable, ‘logical evolution’ of the internet.

Leaders gather at the Annual Meeting in Davos to discuss solutions to the world’s biggest problems. But how can they keep that sense of optimism once they return from the mountain? On the latest Meet The Leader podcast, CEOs, experts and more attending the May event share practical strategies as well as the roll of joy and understanding risk to ensure progress can move forward. Leaders featured: Ray Dalio, Founder, Bridgewater Associates; Lindiwe Matlali, Founder, Africa Teen Geeks; Frans van Houten, CEO, Royal Philips; Alex Liu, Managing Partner, Kearney; Achim Steiner, Administrator, United Nations Development Programmed; Nela Richardson, Chief Economist, ADP; Kristian Teleki, Director, Friends of Ocean Action; Tolullah Oni, urban epidemiologist.

YouTube Chief Executive Officer Susan Wojcicki explores top questions such as: How can a massive global video platform balance free speech and misinformation? Are we in a creator economy bubble? These topics and more are covered in a special one-on-one conversation with Alyson Shontell Lombardi of Fortune Magazine at Davos 2022 - the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting.

The Co-Chairman and Co-Chief Investment Officer of Bridgewater Associates studied 500 years of history to better predict challenges to come. He collects the insights from his recent book, Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order. He shares what he’s worried about now, what gives him hope, and how leaders can better navigate the likely turbulence that could come in the months ahead.

On the final day of the Meeting, Peter Prengaman, climate and environmental news director at the Associated Press, gives us his impressions of his first Davos. We hear the IMF’s Gita Gopinath and others on the prospects for global growth; we find out what schoolgirls in a refugee camp in Kenya want to hear from leaders at Davos; and hear acclaimed musicians Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax at the Davos concert ‘Our Shared Humanity’.

The recovery from the COVID-19 crisis has been deeply uneven within and between countries, depending on their access to fiscal resources and vaccines. Food, fuel and resource crises now risk further derailing an equitable recovery. How can a broader set of foundations for growth ensure long-term economic prosperity and a return to international convergence? This is the full audio from a panel discussion at Davos 2022 with Tom Keene, Managing Editor, Bloomberg Television & Radio; Jim Hagemann Snabe, Chairman, Siemens AG; Mariana Mazzucato, Professor, University College London (UCL); Gita Gopinath, First Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund.

The CEO shares how Microsoft is responding to a host of shifts and how leaders' roles are evolving in a dynamic time. This wide-ranging conversation from the 2022 Annual Meeting in Davos is moderated by World Economic Forum executive chairman Klaus Schwab and covers hybrid work, governance, cybersecurity threats in the Ukraine, the metaverse and the tech trends exciting him right now.

Shereen Bhan, managing editor of Indian business news channel CNBC-TV18, joins us to look ahead to Day 3 when climate change is a major topic. We also get the latest on COVID-19 and the risk of future pandemics. Plus artist Harry Yeff on the emotional impact of turning a voice into a work of digital art.  

While tech can tackle a range of problems, from wealth inequality to the Ukraine crisis, tech policy plays an unsung role making both innovation and social progress possible. The United Nations Development Programme Administrator shares how policy can enable change and a new tool that will be launched to the public today at the 2022 Annual Meeting through a partnership with the World Economic Forum's Edison Alliance. He also shares what keeps him up at night -- and the trait all 'credible leadership' depends on.

Enrique Acevedo. news anchor at CBS news, joins us in the Radio Davos booth to look ahead to the highlights on Day 2 of the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting 2022. We also hear some of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s address, get an advance glimpse of the Forum’s Travel & Tourism Development Index, hear political scientist Ian Bremmer on why the world is in a ‘geopolitical recession’, and chat to YouTuber Nuseir Yassin who plans to encapsulate the whole week in Davos in a one-minute video for his 8 million subscribers.  

What’s happening on Day 1 of Davos 2022? South African TV anchor Nzinga Qunta joins us in the booth at the heart of the conference centre to look ahead to some of the highlights to expect. The episode includes contributions from:  Saadia Zahidi, head of the World Economic Forum’s Centre for the New Economy and Society talking about the Chief Economists Outlook that will be launched today. Nick Clegg, President for Global Affairs at Meta. International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva.

It's an historical turning point - how can leaders make a difference? Ahead of the World Economic Forum 2022 Annual Meeting in Davos - the first in-person meeting of its kind in two years - leaders discuss the current storm of challenges facing the globe and this pivotal moment to make change happen. Features: David Rubenstein, Carlyle Group; Leif Johansson, AstraZeneca; Achim Steiner, UNDP.

The World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting, bringing leaders and experts together from around the world, traditionally happens in January. But for the first time, thanks to COVID-19, the Davos meeting is being held in May. But as Forum President Borge Brende says in this preview podcast, the absence of snow is not the main reason this Davos will be like no other.

As the world began to emerge from the pandemic, we were expecting some turbulence, but Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has upset all predictions. Global Chief Economist at HSBC Janet Henry gives her assessment of where we are and where we’re headed.

The World Economic Forum has been tracking global progress on the ‘energy transition’ for a decade and has just released a special report, Fostering Effective Energy Transition 2022, looking at where things stand at this extraordinary moment in history. The transition is the move away from fossil fuels that cause the climate crisis, while ensuring people around the world can get access to reliable, affordable energy. In this podcast, we listen in on a discussion of the issues, with Roberto Bocca, head of the Platform for Shaping the Future of Energy, Materials, and Infrastructure at the World Economic Forum. The other panelists are Muqsit Ashraf, Senior Managing Director and Global Energy Lead, Accenture; Dev Sanyal, Chief Executive Officer, VARO Energy, and Jesse Scott, International Director, Agora Energiewende and Adjunct Professor, Hertie School. The moderator is journalist John Defterios.  

Radio Davos and its sister podcast Meet the Leader will be podcasting from the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland 22—26 May 2022. Here's what to expect.

Adam Tooze, history professor at Columbia University, looks forward to the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting to be held in Davos in May 2022. The podcaster and author sets out the big issues that will dominate Davos and the global agenda in the months that follow. Adam Tooze is interviewed by Jim Landale and Abhinav Chugh of the World Economic Forum’s Strategic Intelligence platform - find out more at intelligence.weforum.org

In this special compilation episode, leaders like Al Gore, Jack Ma and more share advice for those starting out in their careers - both the tips they swear by and what they’d tell a younger version of themselves. Excerpts are taken from past episodes of Meet The Leader as well as the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting and feature tips from top execs and CEOs from Boston Consulting Group, Morgan Stanley and more.

ESG is an acronym that’s on everyone’s lips in the business world. But just what do we mean by the  ‘environmental, social and governance’ performance of a company, and how can we measure that in a meaningful way? Nadja Picard, Global Reporting Leader, PwC, Germany, talks us through what ESG is and how close we are to having clear ways of measuring it around the world.

Bacterial resistance to antibiotics kills between 1.25-5 million people every year. So why is antimicrobial resistance (AMR) not given the priority or funding that some other health problems receive? We hear from Christopher Murray, director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation which has done the first global assessment of the impact of AMR, and UK AMR envoy Sally Davies, who says AMR needs to be treated as a pandemic.

As opponents to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine seek to isolate Moscow, we ask an expert: what are sanctions, do they work, and how will the sanctions and Russia’s counter measures change the geopolitical landscape? Mikael Wigell, Research Director at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs and the author of, among many other publications, Geo-economics and Power Politics in the 21st Century, has plenty to say about the efficacy - or otherwise - of sanctions and gives his view on what we should look out for now - not least what China does - and what might be the unexpected consequences of what he calls a new cold war.

Pete Stavros of private equity firm KKR channeled a lifelong interest in bridging wealth gaps to found Ownership Works, a non-profit making it easier for companies to share ownership with employees. When done right, the approach can not only strengthen businesses and build engagement, it could create billions in wealth for working families.

It’s boomtime for cyber criminals trying to make easy money by taking computer data hostage and demanding ransom. As online working durged during the pandemic, so did cybercrime - ransomware attacks rose 151% in 2021. The World Economic Forum’s Global Cybersecurity Outlook found there were on average 270 cyberattacks per organization that year, with each successful cyber breach costing a company $3.6m. We speak to Jim Guinn, Senior Managing Director - Security, Strategy and Consulting Lead, Accenture - a company that had its own, well publicized ransomware attack last year, and to Algirde Pipikaite, Cybersecurity Strategy Lead at the World Economic Forum. And to talk about how ransomware can often be considered ‘ransom-war’, we speak to Alex Klimburg, head of the World Economic Forum’s Centre for Cybersecurity. Read the Forum’s Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2022 here: 

The climate summit COP26 was seen as a qualified success. As COP27, due to be held in Egypt by the end of the year, draws closer, and in the light of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, COP26 President Alok Sharma spoke with the head of the World Economic Forum’s Centre for Nature and Climate, Gim Huay Neo, to discuss the significance of public-private collaboration in delivering more radical climate action.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine is having big, and potentially long-lasting impacts on the global supplies of food and energy. Saad Rahim, Chief Economist at Trafigura, talks about the oil and gas markets, and David Laborde Debucquet of the International Food Policy Research Institute assesses the impact on food supplies and prices, and what policymakers need to do. We also hear from David Beasley, head of the United Nations World Food Programme, on how the crisis has immediate repercussions for hungry people all over the world. Thumbnail photo by by Darla Hueske on Unsplash

As war rages in Ukraine, leaders from global humanitarian agencies join a World Economic Forum Agenda Dialogue to say what they need from governments and business to tackle the crisis, and explain what the knock-on impacts will be around the world. Moderated by: Børge Brende, President, World Economic Forum, Adrian Monck, Managing Director, World Economic Forum Panelists: David Beasley, Executive Director, United Nations World Food Programme (WFP); Kelly Clements, United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR); Catherine Russell, Executive Director, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF); Inger Ashing, Chief Executive Officer, Save the Children International

David Miliband, CEO of International Rescue Committee, talks to Meet The Leader about the Ukraine humanitarian crisis, how aid organizations are keeping pace with an unprecedented flow of displaced people - and how the Russian invasion must end abuses of power and an 'age of impunity.'

How is Ukraine managing to keep electricity and heating supplies during the war? Government and industry chiefs address a World Economic Forum online event to explain the challenges and ask for help. As well as the supply of energy, they discussed the threat to Ukraine’s many nuclear power plants and called for ever tougher sanctions on Russian energy exports.   Plus: UNICEF spokesperson James Elder, just back from Lviv, updates us on the humanitarian situation and ‘the biggest refugee crisis we’ve seen since World War Two’.

The former US vice president has been pushing for climate action for decades. In this interview he says we are at a ‘political tipping point’ after which polluters will no longer hold sway, but admits that greenhouse gas emissions are still growing faster than any action to cut them back to zero.   This is an edited version of an interview first published on the World Economic Forum’s Meet the Leader podcast. Interview by Linda Lacina.

The former US vice president has been pushing for climate action for decades. In this interview he says we are at a ‘political tipping point’ after which polluters will no longer hold sway, but admits that greenhouse gas emissions are still growing faster than any action to cut them back to zero. This is an edited version of an interview first published on the World Economic Forum’s Meet the Leader podcast. Interview by Linda Lacina.

Oscar-winning filmmaker Adam McKay tells us how angst about climate change compelled him to make Don’t Look Up, an epic comedy disaster movie about humanity’s failure to tackle an existential threat. Featuring clips from the film with Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Jonah Hill, Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett and Tyler Perry.

As the world emerges from COVID, economies are revving back to life - but so is something that many parts of the world have not seen much of for decades - inflation.  So what is inflation and why has it suddenly reared up around the world? UBS Chief Economist Paul Donovan, author of The Truth About Inflation, speaks to Radio Davos.

James Chen has dedicated nearly two decades to making vision care accessible and affordable. Tackling this issue hasn’t been easy, but drove home for him the importance of an entrepreneur’s mindset and domain expertise to help philanthropists like himself both reveal and back the game-changing ideas that will have the biggest impact. He talked to Meet the Leader about resilience, collaboration, founding the education campaign Clearly, and the critical pivot that unlocked key progress after years of work (leading to the first-ever UN resolution on vision last July). He also delivered an important message about ‘moonshot philanthropy’ - and the special magic that can come when philanthropists take on risk.

Do we need a global treaty to tackle plastics pollution, similar to the one on climate change. Campaigners and a growing number of governments and businesses say we do. Ahead of a United Nations Environment Assembly which could launch talks on a plastics pact, the World Economic Forum heard from a range of experts on why we need a treaty and what it might contain. Speakers: Kristin Hughes, Director, Global Plastic Action Partnership, World Economic Forum; Espen Barth Eide, Minister of climate and environment of Norway and President of the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA); Marco Lambertini, Director-General, WWF International; Rebecca Marmot, Chief Sustainability Officer, Unilever; Luis Vayas Valdivieso,  Vice-Minister, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ecuador; Sheila Aggarwal-Khan, Director, Economy Division, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP); Inés Yábar, Communications Coordinator, Co-Founder, Life Out Of Plastic - L.O.O.P.; Gim Huay Neo, Managing Director, Centre for Nature and Climate, World Economic Forum. 

COVID-19 paralysed healthcare services around the world and meant many routine procedures were cancelled or delayed. That has taken a heavy toll on cancer patients. How big is the problem, what needs to be done to solve it, and what lessons can we draw from the pandemic to help the fight against cancer? Guests: David Fredrickson - Executive Vice-President, Oncology Business Unit, AstraZeneca; Dr Jagannath Palepu, Chairman, Dept. of Surgical Oncology, Lilavati Hospital & Research Centre, Mumbai

In her book ‘Anthrovision: How Anthropology Can Explain Business and Life’, Gillian Tett explains how she used her anthropology training to predict global events from the 2008 financial crisis to the COVID-19 pandemic. To understand the world, she says, we need to get out of the ‘goldfish bowls’ that we all live in, and see things from other people’s perspectives, and also recognise our own weaknesses, biases  and blindspots.

The Nobel laureate and former US Vice President Al Gore understands the key role policy makers will play in climate action. That’s why he’s been helping to train thousands around the world through the organization he founded, the Climate Reality Project, educating grassroots leaders and empowering them with the practical skills they need to drive change in their communities and help policy makers speed solutions for the environment. In this episode, Gore shares why he’s optimistic for change, how he’s evolved as a leader and communicator, the strategy he can’t work without and the advice he’d give to a younger self.

While COVID prevented the annual Davos meeting in the Alps for a second year, leaders from governments, business, academia and civil society met online at the Davos Agenda to discuss the world’s biggest issues. The episode has some of the highlights.

Speaking live from the International Space Station, Matthias Maurer gives a fascinating glimpse of what it’s like to spend months in orbit - what kind of research he’s carrying out - and how the experience has made him care more than ever about protecting our environment.

Borg is the first-ever female CEO for this European energy company - a firm committed to fossil-free living in a generation. Phasing out fossil fuels will reshape industry and lead to historic milestones and unique collaborations (such as the joint-project that developed the world’s first fossil-free steel last year). Not moving fast enough, however, can lead to ‘devastating’ risks for business and the planet. She explains what’s needed to scale new technologies. She also shares the frameworks and questions she and her team use to weigh big decisions and to drive transformation while staying competitive. 

Dr Anthony Fauci and other experts tell us why Omicron might - but only might - mean we are in the end-game in the fight against COVID. Alongside him at the Davos Agenda session ‘COVID-19 - What’s Next?’ are Professor Annelies Wilder-Smith, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; Richard Hatchett, CEO of the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness and Innovations (CEPI); and Stéphane Bancel, CEO, Moderna. The discussion is moderated by Francine Lacqua, Editor-at-Large and Presenter at Bloomberg Television

Climate change is the number one risk we face as a species, according to the World Economic Forum’s annual Global Risks Report. We look at what a ‘disorderly transition’ to net-zero might look like, and also examine the new risks posed by rapidly changing technology. Guests:  Peter Giger, Group Chief Risk Officer at Zurich Insurance Group; Carolina Klint, Risk Management Leader, Continental Europe, Marsh Read more: 

Parag Khanna, author of Move: The Forces Uprooting Us, which looks at one of the biggest issues of our time - mass migration. He explains why climate change will uproot millions of people, and suggest ways that can be made to work for the migrants, and the countries that welcome them.

Stuart Russell, Professor of Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley is one of the world’s most respected experts on artificial intelligence. He explains what AI is, when we might expect machines to overtake humans in every activity, and why that means we need to rethink how we design and use algorithms, and ask the deepest questions about how we are as humans. Co-hosted by Kay Firth-Butterfield, Head of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning at the World Economic Forum’s Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

Cloud computing needs exploded after COVID-19 emerged but worker skills aren't keeping pace. In this episode, the VP of Training and Certification at Amazon Web Services discusses the sought-after digital skills workers must train for now to prepare for future needs. She explains how AWS is scaling training to millions through a range of free programs and platforms and how simple routines used by her and her team can help you sharpen your skills now and in the years ahead.

Elif Shafak, author of the acclaimed The Bastard of Istanbul and The Forty Rules of Love, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for her 2019 novel 10 Minutes and 38 Seconds in This Strange World. The Turkish-British writer joins us to talk about her latest novel, The Island of Missing Trees, a story of forbidden love set in Cyprus and Britain, and tells Beatrice DiCaro why more men should read fiction.

For the second year running, the pandemic was the biggest news story around the world, but 2021 was also the year of the vaccine rollout, the return of big sporting events including the Olympics, and an invasion of the US Capitol. CNN anchor Eleni Giokos joins us to look back on the year and listen in to some of the most memorable moments.

Organisational psychologist and podcaster Adam Grant, author of Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know, talks about his work and picks his favourite new books.

This special compilation episode collects the top business and leadership books recommended by Meet The Leader guests -- people like Boston Consulting Group's CEO Rich Lesser, Bank of America's Brian Moynihan, organizational psychologist John Amaechi, IBM Research's Dario Gil, and more. These recommendations changed how their readers -- CEOS, founders, ambassadors -- think, work and lead. Find classics for the problem solver in your life as you complete your holiday shopping. And as you get ready to tackle your own big goals in 2022, find surprising reads that will inspire, challenge and strengthen you in the year ahead.

The Book Club podcast from the World Economic Forum brings you the world’s greatest storytellers.  For the last three years, the Forum’s Book Club has engaged with some of the world’s greatest writers, allowing a community of over 200,000 readers to put their questions and share their views. The podcast features in-depth interviews with some of our favourite authors looking at their most recent work, their motivations, inspirations and so much more. Great fiction, economics, psychology, philosophy - the world’s best storytellers will be telling us their stories.

Starting remote as CEO during COVID-19 meant reshaping the firm’s operations -- and building trust with thousands -- mostly over Zoom. In fact, it was more than a year before Thierry Delaporte could meet many of his teams in person thanks to travel restrictions. Delaporte talked to Meet The Leader about starting in Paris as a remote CEO and Managing Director for this India-headquartered company and how he focused his communication to build connections and help simplify the company’s operations. He also explained how a favorite hobby -- sailing -- prepared him to navigate COVID's uncertainty and how those lessons could help any leader. 

Was the Glasgow summit just the same old ‘blah, blah, blah’ or will it help us avoid climate catastrophe? Journalist Justin Worland covered COP26 for TIME and tells us his view on what was - and what was not - achieved.

In this special episode inspired by the COP26 summit, Meet The Leader compiles the habits and mindsets top leaders say we’ll need to stay on track to meet climate goals, such as: accepting imperfect compromises, forging partnerships, building leadership incentives and more. This episode includes insights from top global leaders (Barack Obama, Christiana Figueres), climate activists (Elizabeth Wathuti) and top C-Suite leaders (Vattenfall’s CEO Anna Borg; Yara’s CEO Svein Holsether; Russell Reynolds’ CEO Clarke Murphy; CEO Mahendra Singhi Dalmia Cement (Bharat) Limited and IKEA’s CDO Barbara Martin Coppola).

What are the breakthrough technologies that will transform our world in the next few years? Scientific American and the World Economic Forum present their annual top-ten emerging tech report. The two people who led the work -, Dean of the College of Communication at Boston University, and , Chief Innovation Officer Emeritus at IBM - talk to Radio Davos host Robin Pomeroy and Sophie Bushwick, Technology Editor at Scientific American. Read more here: 

The main greenhouse gas causing climate change is carbon dioxide - a colourless, odourless gas that is otherwise harmless to our health. But emissions of CO2 are often accompanied by other, toxic gases. So can we tackle air pollution - which kills 7 million people a year around the world - at the same time as we fight climate change? We hear from three cities - Buenos Aires, London and Singapore, that are doing just that by managing road transport to cut emissions.

The destruction of the natural world is the ‘other’ global environmental crisis, but it is entwined with climate change. Global warming is the number-one cause of that destruction, and the loss of forests and other ‘carbon sinks’ is increasing the pace of climate change. At COP26, world leaders agreed to  halt and reverse deforestation and land degradation by the end of the decade, pledging  $19 billion in public and private funds. Among the countries to sign up were  Brazil, Indonesia and Democratic Republic of Congo, which collectively account for 85% of the world’s forests. In this episode we speak to Tabi Joda, a forester in Cameroon who is helping plant the Great Green Wall - reforesting a strip right across the southern edge of the Sahara desert. We hear from Natura, a major cosmetics company on how businesses can make money from forests without destroying them, and Elizabeth Mrema, the head of the UN’s biodiversity convention - the person driving global efforts to protect nature - on a new plan to get companies to report on their impact on the natural world.

US climate envoy John Kerry and World Economic Forum President Brende Borge launched an initiative at COP26 to bring big companies and customers together to build demand for green products that require major investment and innovation. This episode has some highlights from the event which can be seen in full here: 

Jane Goodall is one of the world's best known primatologists and activists for animal welfare and the environment. The founder of the Jane Goodall Institute shares how to advocate for change and the strategies she's used over the decades to connect with compassion. She also shares a critical message about hope -- both how it propels her and how we can use it as a tool for action as leaders gather to discuss climate change at COP26.

As COP26 opens, Radio Davos hears from a journalist who has covered dozens of UN climate gatherings and has reported on how global warming is affecting the remotest corners of the world. Alister Doyle’s book The Great Melt: Accounts from the Frontline of Climate Change takes us from a dangerously melting ice sheet in the Antarctic to a town high in the Andes threatened by floods from glacial meltwaters. And we hear how Anders Celsius didn’t only invent the temperature scale by which we measure global warming, he also made big strides in the way we understand sea-level rise.

What is COP26, why is it important, and what should we expect? With guest co-host Gideon Lichfield, the global editor in chief of Wired, we look at the key issues at the Glasgow climate summit where world leaders need to show how we can achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions and avert climate catastrophe. Includes an interview with veteran climate campaigner Jennifer Morgan, the Greenpeace chief who has been to every single COP.

In this COP26 special, we look at the immense challenge of making energy carbon-neutral. As the International Energy Agency records a surge in coal use and record jump in greenhouse gas emissions, its head, Fatih Birol, tells us what he wants from the climate summit. And the CEO of UK electricity market disruptor Octopus Energy says data will be the key to switching to renewables. Plus a view on COP26 and climate change from young Peruvian @InesYabar.

This management consulting firm’s CEO discusses its research on disruption and how leaders can both anticipate change and better manage it, making decisions quickly and effectively. He also shares personal lessons learned from early roles, like his days working as an apprentice for his father’s boat building business. Classic people skills like listening with curiosity and respect can anchor any leader in ever-changing times

Food accounts for one-third of greenhouse gas emissions, so how can we make it sustainable? We talk to the author of Eating to Extinction about the risks of relying on a handful of food types, and learn how restaurants could play a big role in getting us to eat our greens. Guests: Dan Saladino, author of Eating to Extinction; Michael Oshman, founder and CEO of the Green Restaurants Association.

Ahead of the COP26 climate summit, endurance swimmer Lewis Pugh takes us into icy - but warming - Arctic waters; UN envoy Peter Thomson calls on world leaders to act urgently to protect the ocean. And we head to the swamps of Colombia to find out  why coastal ecosystems - mangroves, seagrasses and saltmarshes - are powerful allies in the fight against global warming.

Despite the pandemic forcing a rapid digitalization of the economy, 3.7 billion people in the world still do not have internet access. Business and government leaders from around the world meet to discuss how to change this.  Panellists: Paula Ingabire, Minister of Information and communications technology and Innovation of Rwanda Omar bin Sultan Al Olama, Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence, Digital Economy and Remote Work Application of the United Arab Emirates Achim Steiner, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme Tan Hooi Ling, Co-Founder, GrabRobert F. Smith, Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Vista Equity Partners Adrian Lovett, President and Chief Executive Officer, World Wide Web Foundation Chaired by: Børge Brende, President, World Economic ForumModerated by: Adrian Monck, Managing Director, World Economic Forum

As Unilever's Chief Human Resource Officer, Nair is the first female, first Asian and the youngest ever person to hold that post at the company. As a result, she knows a little something about pioneering and she talked to Meet The Leader about the future of work as Unilever tests new models such as 4-day work weeks and other new programs rethinking the classic 9 to 5. Our new work future will also take a mastery of soft skills - of vulnerability, transparency and the type of empathy that ensures everyone can truly have a voice and adapt their workplaces to meet the needs of the years ahead. Nair shares how she models these traits, the dramatic moment that shaped how she leads, and why mastering soft skills will be the hardest task of all.

Can we avoid climate catastrophe? Salesforce ‘futurist’ Peter Schwartz sets out three main scenarios for the future of humanity. And US climate envoy John Kerry pops in during his travels to drum up support for climate action ahead of the Glasgow summit.

US climate envoy John Kerry joins an in-person panel at the World Economic Forum to discuss how companies can lead the way in cutting greenhouse gas emissions. The leaders of the world’s biggest shipping and cement companies, Maersk and Holcim, tell us what they are doing.

As the world gathers for the COP26 climate summit, the weekly Radio Davos podcast looks for solutions to the crisis in areas such as energy, the ocean, forests and cities. Subscribe: 

As UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson called on members of the United Nations to take climate action ahead of the November climate summit COP26, leaders from business, civil society and government met online at SDIS21. We get a flavour of the action.

From the Sustainable Development Impact Summit, SDIS21, World Economic Forum President Borge Brende hosts a panel discussion looking at how the world can build a sustainable economy as we recover from the pandemic.

Protecting people and the planet is the biggest challenge of our lifetime and one that will require a new type of leadership. CEO Clarke Murphy understands this more than most. His firm Russell Reynolds Associates has just released a first-of-its-kind report, digging into what the new generation of leaders will need to meet sustainability goals in the decades to come. Clarke talked to Meet The Leader about the findings, from what 'spooked' him and inspired him to what gave him pause. He also shared steps leaders can take to bridge 'say/do' divides, rethink incentives and transform company culture. His practical advice paired with the report's surprising findings help leaders better tap the most important sustainability resource already in their organization: their people.

We take a preview of the Sustainable Development Impact Summit where business leaders will start to set out their stalls for the climate conference in November.

The president of the European Central Bank, ranked the world’s second most powerful woman by Forbes, chats with World Economic Forum Founder and Executive Chairman Klaus Schwab about what the world needs to do to fully recover from the pandemic; the role of finance in fighting climate change; and why cryptocurrencies aren’t actually currencies at all.

COVID has presented huge challenges to healthcare, education and poverty reduction in India. We speak to the ‘social entrepreneurs’ working in the community to help people survive the pandemic.

Africa's largest computer science non-profit looks to reshape opportunity in Africa by teaching kids to code and creating a pipeline of tech leaders and entrepreneurs. Matlali built this organisation from scratch, with bootstrapping and cold calls, as she worked to transform mindsets and curriculums, and bridge equity gaps. She talks to Meet the Leader about how tech training and entrepreneurship can reshape Africa. She also discusses the power of humility in making collaboration and making change happen and the lessons she's learned from her own mentor, Google’s Marian Croak, about being present. Those lessons can help anyone be a better mentor to a new generation.

After the Paris Climate agreement of 2015, the President and Chief Executive Officer of Yara shifted gears. The milestone event - held just a few months after he started at Yara - sharpened his understanding of the critical role his company could play in decarbonising food value chains. This shifts that resulted have meant new priorities and a new way of working for him and his teams at the fertiliser and food solutions company. It has also lead to an exploration of innovations such as green ammonia that could lead to fossil free solutions for fertiliser and fuel. Such new solutions require collaboration and trust. That trust, says Holsether, will be play a bigger role than miracle tech in making progress for the climate.

This former NBA basketball player changed course after his athletic career to earn a PhD in psychology and found a leadership consulting firm that leverages psychological research. He talks to Meet The Leader about how looking inward can help top execs recognize leaders throughout an organization and how everyday choices and commitments can shape success. He also shares how bias conversations must change in workplaces and insights from his latest leadership book: The Promises of Giants.

As many in the northern hemisphere head to the beach, we dispel the 'Jaws' myths and find out why sharks are vital to the ocean and the planet. And Dutch musician Don Diablo drops a summer hit that will help re-forest parts of Africa. With:  Andy Cornish, Global Shark & Ray Conservation Programme Leader at WWF Don Diablo, musician  Wessel van Eeden, Marketing and Communications Director at Justdiggit

CEO John Pearson shares the strategies this shipping and logistics company uses to simplify and focus a complex business – methods that have helped it navigate major upheavals including the COVID-19 pandemic. Special training programs - including one featuring a small red passport each staffer carries – are a special source of pride and one of several important ways the company keeps communication clear and thousands of employees aligned in one of the most global companies in the world. 

Racist reactions at Euro 2020, possible protests at the Tokyo Games, in this episode we ask whether sport unites us, or reveals the deepest and darkest divisions in society. Interviews: Former NBA basketball player John Amaechi; sociology professor and author on racism and sport, Lori L. Martin; Olympic and Tour de France cyclist Nic Dlamini

‘Doomscrolling’ - getting lost in a social media rabbit hole of bad news - became a thing during the pandemic. We talk to a psychologist about what it is and how to beat it, and we learn how to get the rest we need, that sleep cannot deliver.

During the COVID-19 crisis, those in critical infrastructure joined doctors and nurses in the pandemic’s front line as temporary hospitals and isolation rooms were needed nearly overnight. This chairman and CEO shared how practice and routine helped the company weather the crisis and how building technologies can help tackle other complex problems such as climate mitigation. Oliver also shared how routine can drive innovation and the habits this early riser depends in his own life.

On just one day in May, two US oil majors suffered a rebellion by shareholders who demanded action on climate change and a Dutch court ordered Shell to cut its greenhouse gas emissions. But was it a one-off, or are we seeing the battle for climate action move increasingly to the courts? And as some governments seek to embed the price of carbon into the products we buy, this former World Trade Organization judge tells us that even more litigation is likely. To consider how significant these events will prove to be, Radio Davos spoke to James Bacchus, Adjunct scholar the the Cato Institute and Distinguished University Professor of Global Affairs and Director of the Center for Global Economic and Environmental Opportunity at the University of Central Florida.

When most of IKEA’s global retail locations closed temporarily during the pandemic, e-commerce became the cornerstone of the business. This near overnight shift was possible, in part, thanks to a digital transition that was already several years underway, one of the biggest in the company’s 78-year-history. Barbara Martin Coppola, an alum of Google and Samsung, was hired in 2018 as the company’s first-ever Chief Digital Officer to lead this transition, using data and technology to modernize everything from IKEA’s supply chains, to its stores to the way its staffers work. In this episode, Coppola shares the leadership lessons she’s learned and why she believes in resilience and “stubborn optimism.” She also shares and the experiences that have prepared her to tackle big challenges including early music studies. 

The World Economic Forum has a new podcast - Agenda Dialogues, bringing you the audio from top-level discussions on the world’s biggest issues, hosted by Forum President Borge Brende. In this Radio Davos episode we dip into three upcoming Dialogues podcasts on climate change, trade, and health.

Millions of jobs may never return; gender equality has been set back; and work from home is here to stay: Journalist and podcaster Ashley Milne-Tyte talks us through some of the most striking insights from the Jobs Reset Summit.

There are more forcibly displaced people than ever - 82 million - despite the pandemic making it harder to flee across borders. On World Refugee Day, Radio Davos speaks to UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi, and to Victor Ochen, who grew up in a conflict zone in northern Uganda and has used his experience as a displaced person to help others.

To meet big climate goals, consumer goods giant Procter & Gamble is redesigning both products and supply chains. In this effort, P&G Europe is pioneering many sustainable products and helping consumers build better habits for the planet. P&G Europe’s president Loic Tassel shares how his teams are helping to rethink everything from how we buy our shampoo to the temperature with which we wash our laundry. He talks to Meet The Leader about the upcoming European Green Deal, how being a father of five drives him, and what he’s learned in his near 33 years at the company.

The chief sustainability officer of Morgan Stanley hails from policy and journalism and basically invented her current role. She’ll explain why unique backgrounds are key to tackling sustainability, what drove the firm to dive into sustainable investing during the last recession and how finance can play a key role in addressing some of the biggest challenges of our day.

Marine biologist and the head of the world’s largest research and expedition ship, Nina Jensen, joins us to look at highlights from the recent Virtual Ocean Dialogues and Climate Breakthroughs events, with US climate envoy John Kerry.

Are your children’s toys smarter than you? Two judges at the inaugural Smart Toy Awards, musician  and UC Berkeley Professor Ron Dahl, an expert on childhood development, talk about their hopes and fears over ‘intelligent’ toys.

The Chief Technology Officer of Volvo discusses tech’s role in transport’s decarbonisation. He’ll also explain the role creativity and accountability will play in that transition and how leaders will need to change how they interact with everyone from teams and rivals.

As a preview of the Jobs Reset Summit, Bloomberg TV’s Francine Lacqua joins us to look at the changing world of work and what might be the jobs of the future.

When hackers shut down a pipeline dubbed the US ‘infrastructure jugular’ demanding millions of dollars, the world woke up to the threat of ransomware. Experts from the Centre for Cybersecurity explain what’s at stake and we speak to the head of US Homeland Security.

The CEO discusses leadership lessons from three decades at the firm, the signals that prompt teams to tackle big challenges - and what’s really needed to make progress on the climate.

‘Corporate wellness’ is big business, but can it really help tackle the huge challenges of mental health? We hear from the Wellcome Trust’s Director of Mental Health, Professor Miranda Wolpert, and  health advocate Grace Gatera.

The co-founder of Wikipedia - the world’s fifth most popular website - had a Q&A with entrepreneurs from the World Economic Forum’s UpLink programme. His key word of advice: don’t be scared to try.

The CEO of quantitative investment firm WorldQuant talks experimentation, the principles he lives by and why he founded a not-for-profit online university to modernize talent pools and bridge opportunity gaps.

If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to lead a huge company, Linda Lacina has the answers. In her podcast, Meet the Leader, she chats with a senior figure - usually a CEO - of a big organisation to find out what makes them tick and to get tips we might all learn from. This episode features the chief executive of telecoms group Verizon, Hans Vestberg.

For 10 years the World Economic Forum has tracked the world’s progress on getting better, cleaner energy for all. We look at the latest findings and ask how we can achieve climate change goals.

Axios Chief Technology Correspondent Ina Fried joins Robin Pomeroy for a look at some of the best moments of GTGS, featuring the CEOs of YouTube, Salesforce, government ministers from France and Singapore and predictions from full-time futurologists.

The CEO of Verizon shares why he charts his time, the questions he asks world leaders and why he's dedicated his life to bridging connectivity gaps.

Nikkei journalist Hiroyuki Nishimura joins Robin Pomeroy for a look at the World Economic Forum’s tech summit, hosted by Japan - an event bringing together more than 50 governments and 600 companies to look at the promises and pitfalls of the technologies rapidly changing all our lives. 

The World Economic Forum’s  gives a worrying indication of the impact that the COVID pandemic has has on gender inequality. Radio Davos hears from Forum Managing Director Saadia Zahidi and LinkedIn head of public policy Sue Duke.

Hollywood star Matt Damon is a leading figure in efforts to get clean water and sanitation to the poorest people in the world. Damon and co-founder of charty  Gary White tell us why water is fundamental to tackling global inequality.

To mark the 6-month anniversary of Meet The Leader, this compilation episode collects favourite tips, mindsets and approaches from past episodes as well as insights from World Economic Forum events like the Annual Meeting in Davos.

How do you turn that great idea for making the world a better place into reality? We hear from four innovators who are working with the Forum's UpLink platform to tackle the biggest challenges facing the planet.

As the world starts to move out of lockdown, we are relaunching World Vs Virus under a new name: Radio Davos. As well as the pandemic, we’ll cover all the biggest global issues: climate change, technology, equality, education and the world of work, bringing you interviews with the people who have the ideas, the passion and the ability to make change happen.

This global lighting company achieved carbon neutrality last fall. Its CEO will share the changes it made - and its lessons learned.

The CEO will share how new programs are helping the firm train future leaders in tech and sustainability and even create jobs to tackle neurodiversity.

As rich nations rush to secure millions of doses, how will poorer countries fare? We hear from the head of COVAX, the global initiative to get COVID vaccines out to all. Plus: how can we counter vaccine-scepticism.

Shipping is responsible for a gigaton of C02 emissions a year. We talk to the people on the climate frontline about one of the world's toughest industries to decarbonize.

What do you get if you bring together two dozen heads of state, 56O leaders of  the world’s biggest companies, scientists, campaigners and academics from around the world? We listen back on some of the highlights from the Davos Agenda Week.

Fans of direct air capture see it as a surefire way to suck greenhouse gas emissions from the atmosphere. Critics say it’s an overpriced distraction. We ask the people pioneering the technology for their view

The CEO of one of the world’s largest brewing companies explains how tech like blockchain and fintech are helping retailers and smallholder farmers around the world and how such investments are strengthening communities in developing economies more resilient have kept the company humming during the pandemic.

Iron Man Robert Downey Jr explains why he’s now a green venture capitalist, and what we should say to climate change deniers. Ravi Velloor, associate editor of The Straits Times joins us to look ahead to the action on the final day of the Davos Agenda. Plus: Forum President Borge Brende on resetting geopolitics.

Alyson Shontel of Business Insider joins us to look ahead to Day 4 of the Davos Agenda and we discuss the dangers of a possible ‘cyber pandemic’ with the head of the Forum’s Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Plus an interview with naturalist Jane Goodall. 

Ryan Heath, Senior Editor at , joins us to look ahead at a day focusing on the environment when John Kerry, US President Joe Biden’s climate envoy, is due to speak. We also interview Mark Carney, the former central banker who is finding ways to make big finance combat climate change.

Gillian Tett of Financial Times joins us to discuss the main themes of the Davos Agenda on Day 2: industry transformation, growth and stakeholder capitalism. And we hear a message from climate campaigner Greta Thunberg.

Rachana Shanbhogue of The Economist helps us look ahead to the first day of the Davos Agenda week where COVID-19 is in focus. And we hear interviews with  architect Sir David Adjaye and photographer Sebastião Salgado, winners of this year’s Crystal Awards.

Radio Davos is reporting daily from the Davos Agenda week - five days of top-level discussions with leaders from business, government, academia and science seeking solutions to the world’s biggest problems. Journalists from around the world talk us through the main themes and we hear from the people making change happen.

Polly Courtice, the Founder Director of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) shares why business survival depends on taking action on sustainability, what sometimes holds leaders back and the role of corporate boards in putting planet over profit. This episode will also include insights from top leaders ahead of January’s Davos Agenda Week.

Livestock production accounts for a staggering 15% of total greenhouse gas equivalent emissions per year globally, and in the age of covid, zoonotic diseases are on the agenda as never before. We talk to the entrepreneurs looking to re-engineer the mighty burger and wean us off animal-based protein.

Big finance gets a lot of bad press - but it might just be our secret weapon in the fight against climate change. In this episode we talk to bankers, insurers and data experts who are pushing the world to divest from fossil fuels.

David Rubenstein, co-founder and co-executive chairman of The Carlyle Group, explains the role courage plays in making change happen, and what leaders must do to push through the resistance that they face.

Seafarers are among the forgotten victims of the pandemic - thousands have been stranded at sea for months as ports around the world refuse to let them land. We hear from two ship’s captains about the human impact.

2020 was the year of coronavirus, but also the year of Donald Trump, of Black Lives Matter and of Brexit. CNN correspondent Eleni Giokos joins Robin Pomeroy for a look back on a year that was unforgettable, often for the wrong reasons.

House on Fire looks at the potential of blue finance. Can ocean solutions be economically as well as environmentally profitable? If so, could private finance unlock the innovation needed to reverse ocean degradation?

How will you play the hand you’re dealt? This shape-your-own-destiny approach helped Deloitte’s Global CEO forge his own unique path in life and is helping the company tackle big challenges such as climate change and expanding opportunity for millions.

The fifth episode of House on Fire looks at the problem of ocean roadkill. Whales are vital to ocean health, but with thousands of them dying in collisions with container ships, we talk to the scientists building a high-tech solution in California.

The fourth episode of House on Fire examines Indonesia’s ambitious national plan to rid itself of plastic waste within a generation. How can the world’s second-largest plastic polluter accomplish this gargantuan task?

What are the biggest advances in science and technology today that might transform the way we all live, work, and confront the world’s biggest challenges, in the next 3-5 years? Find out in this podcast from Scientific American and the World Economic Forum

Despite global calls to ‘build back better’, COVID-19 has widened inequalities and created greater instability for the most vulnerable. Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz joins the head of UNICEF and three vaccine manufacturers to discuss what needs to be done to change that.

Tackling long-term challenges requires leaders committed to making big change happen. Moritz will share how the leaders of tomorrow can truly drive progress and make an impact. He’ll also share how PwC is helping to upskill the next generation of workers, and how a set of non-financial metrics can better measure how companies are doing right by society.

The third episode of House on Fire explores a new initiative to grow and conserve a trillion trees on Earth. Is large-scale tree planting even viable? What good would it do and where could it go wrong? To answer these questions we talk to foremost experts – from scientist Tom Crowther to ecologist Karen Holl, from environmentalist Forrest Fleischman to Justin Adams, co-director of the One Trillion Trees platform – to weight the pros and cons of the world’s new fascination for forestation.  

Misinformation about COVID-19 has spread as fast as the virus itself. So is there a cure? UN communications chief Melissa Fleming and journalism entrepreneur Mark Little have some answers.

The second episode of House on Fire explores the extraordinary lengths that scientists have gone to in order to find and preserve genetic diversity for future generations. In the teeth of the sixth mass extinction, how urgent is the task of locating and preserving the species that remain? And how might it be done?

EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and former US Secretary of State John Kerry join the discussion on impact COVID-19 has had on public confidence in the ability of leaders and institutions to prepare for unexpected risks. What new forms of cooperation, bold ideas and reforms are needed for business, policy-makers and civil society to build a more resilient world and restore confidence in leadership beyond COVID-19?

This special training program for staff at banks and credit unions didn’t just help tackle the multi-billion-dollar problem of financial exploitation. It built motivation and empathy among thousands of front line staffers to help protect seniors’ retirement savings. 

European Central Bank Christine Lagarde is among the speakers at the World Economic Forum’s Pioneers of Change summit looking at the innovations we need to make the world a better place.

In the face of the sixth mass extinction we look at clever solutions to biodiversity loss, taking in perspectives from leading experts, economists and eco-entrepreneurs on the way. Among them Colin Butfield of WWF, conservationist Eric Dinerstein, geographer Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim and First Nations advocate Graeme Reed.

COVID caused people to snub or even flee cities and the New York Post even suggested “NYC is dead forever”. Two experts tell World Vs Virus why cities will survive but will be changed forever.

As much of Europe returns to lockdown, we listen again to author, podcaster and psychologist Adam Grant on how to survive - and even thrive. This interview was first posted in episode 5.

The co-founder of Orbs, Israel’s largest blockchain group, explains what drove her to co-found a non-profit using blockchain to tackle some of the world’s biggest humanitarian problems. She’ll explain how she leverages patience and persistence in her work and the importance of looking for “the doers” to make things happen.

As the United States grapples with the global economic and health crisis, how can its foreign policy help shape the global recovery? How can it deploy its resources to serve the global good? A special panel of experts weighs in from the World Economic Forum’s U.S. Global Future Council: Daniel Drezner, Tufts University; Danielle Pletka, American Enterprise Institute; Tom Shannon, Former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs.

This episode is the audio from the latest Great Reset Dialogue, a discussion on how best to use advanced technologies such as machine learning and robotics, with Colombian President Ivan Duque, Rwandan President Paul Kagame and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The session is introduced by the World Economic Forum’s Head of Public and Social Engagement, Adrian Monck, and chaired by its President, Børge Brende.

We might be ‘all in this together’ but COVID-19 has had a disproportionate impact on women and minorities. This episode includes highlights from the Jobs Reset Summit and an interview with Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, head of the UN agency working for gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls.

COVID-19 has added to the threat to jobs already imposed by changing technology. How can we get the new skills needed to cope? On Day 3 we have highlights of the Jobs Reset Summit so far and an interview with an inspirational teacher on the things we really need to teach in school.

How can public companies help solve some of the world’s biggest problems? The CEO of Bank of America, Brian Moynihan, explains how a special set of metrics can help companies better measure and disclose how they’re doing well for society on environmental, social and governance issues. He’ll also talk about staying focused for the long term, his reliance on curiosity, and the importance of looking “out-in” as a leader.

Are workers and wages a cost that companies should cut back as much as possible, or are they all organisations’ most valuable asset worthy of greater investment? On Day 2 we have highlights of the Jobs Reset Summit so far and an interview that looks into that very question.

As COVID bites, one in two of us fear losing our job in the next 12 months. The World Economic Forum’s Jobs Reset Summit will seek ways for a brighter world of work, Forum Managing Director Saadia Zahidi explains.

An increasing number of companies claim to be serving the interests of society and the environment as well as making money for their owners. But how can we make sure this actually happens? ‘Impact investors’ Michael O'Leary and Warren Valdmanis, authors of the book ‘Accountable’ tell us.

Almost four years since Donald Trump announced ‘America First’, is the world a more divided place. Did COVID bring us together for a common purpose, or further accelerate nationalism and populism. A panel of experts from the US, China, India and UK discuss  ‘revitalizing global partnership’.

What if the world’s top scientists can help us prevent future crises, all with the best technology at their fingertips? The Director of IBM Research explains the need for a Science Readiness Reserves and the supercomputer project that inspired it. He also shares what he’s learned about what makes great collaborations tick and why he listens to Bach (loudly) on the way into work.

The makers of Sesame Street talk about the pandemic’s huge impact on young children and how to improve education in a post-COVID world.

Nariman Behravesh, IHS Markit Chief Economist, says the worst may be behind us, but the economic crisis caused by the pandemic will be with us for at least another year.

COVID showed us the world can mobilise to tackle a major threat - can we do the same to beat climate change and inequality? Global leaders at the latest Great Reset Dialogue think so.

The fourth and final daily podcast from the week at #SDI20, featuring leaders of major multinationals committed to net-zero carbon emissions. And India's largest renewable energy company tells us about how we can hope to achieve the UN’s global goal of getting affordable and clean energy to all.

Latest highlights from #SDI20 include leaders of global accounting firms on new global standards to measure companies’ progress on environmental, social and governance issues. And social entrepreneur Carlo Delantar on UN Sustainable Development Goal 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production.

Hear highlights of the summit so far, including naturalist Jane Goodall, King Abdullah of Jordan and Colombian President Ivan Duque, plus an interview with  head Jacquelline Fuller on what the tech giant is doing to advance the UN global goals.

The Great Reset goes daily this week, with special episodes from the World Economic Forum’s SDIS - a four-day event looking at how to achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. We hear about the event, and from disabilities Edward Ndopu on what those goals mean to him.

False rumours and conspiracy theories pose a real threat to the rollout of a COVID-19 vaccine. Professors Paul Offit and Heidi Larson tell us how we can fight back.

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 the planet and the future of jobs?

News of upcoming episodes of World Vs Virus in which we look at a global effort to counter anti-vax myths and find out how the characters from Sesame Street are helping children around the world survive the pandemic.

If ‘Greed is Good’ was the mantra for business in the 1980s, it’s now time to drop ‘market fundamentalism’ and declare ‘Greed is Dead’. That’s the title of a new book co-authored by this week’s guest, Oxford University economist John Kay.

With: - Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Senior Minister, Prime Minister’s Office, Singapore - Angel Gurría, Secretary General, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) - Brian Moynihan, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Bank of America, USA. Chair of the World Economic Forum International Business Council - Stacey Cunningham, President and Chief Executive Officer, NYSE, USA - Li Xin, Managing Director, Caixin Global, Caixin Media, People's Republic of China

How great are the challenges for companies to recover from the COVID crisis, and will they have the resources and incentives to embrace the ‘stakeholder’ economy? OECD chief Ángel Gurría and joins corporate leaders and experts from the US, China and Singapore on the latest Great Reset Dialogue.

Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum has co-authored a book setting out his vision of the Great Reset; and a new report shows why we should work with, rather than against nature, to deliver clean growth and hundreds of millions of jobs this decade.

World Vs Virus is taking a short summer break. We'll see you again next month. If you think you're going to miss us, don't forget to subscribe to our program on your chosen podcast platform so you find out when we're back. Meanwhile, listen back to all previous episodes and check out our sister podcast The Great Reset.

The new Great Reset podcast with Robin Pomeroy looks at  Mission Possible - seizing the chance to make heavy industry climate-neutral, with the Forum's Dominic Waughray, UK minister  Kwasi Kwarteng, UN energy envoy Damilola Ogunbiyi, COP26 champion Nigel Topping, and the CEOs of Heathrow Airport and Bank of America.

A look back on the pandemic to date, featuring interviews with, among others, Gita Gopinath and David Miliband. What have we learned and what’s next?

Nico Rosberg, Greentech Entrepreneur and F1 2016 World Champion by World Economic Forum

The world champion racing driver-turned green investor tells us how the pandemic should be an opportunity to accelerate zero-emissions transport. And find out what he thinks of the armchair athletes of esports.

Dr Maria Neria, Director of the Public Health, Environment and Social Determinants of Health Department of the World Health Organisation by World Economic Forum

In the latest Great Reset dialogue, John Kerry, Jan Vapaavuori, Hilary Cottam, Mohammad Jaafar, Bob Moritz, Geraldine Matchett, Phillip Atiba Goff, Saadia Zahidi and Borge Brende discuss how to rebuild the ‘social contract’ in a world where millions of people have lost their jobs and faith in democracy is under extreme pressure.

Mounting evidence suggests people who live with polluted air are more likely to catch and die from COVID-19. WHO’s Dr Maria Neira tells us why we need a cleaner economy as we rebuild from lockdown, and The Clean Air Fund’s Jane Burston says pressure for change will come from the people.

Why are people of colour more likely to catch and die from COVID-19? Devi Sridhar, Professor of Global Public Health at the University of Edinburgh, gives us her view, and also tells us why the as-yet unknown long-term consequences of the virus for survivors could make COVID-19 ‘our generation’s polio’.

Max Hall speaks to Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala about issues facing Africa during the COVID-19 outbreak. 

She served as finance minister under two Nigerian presidents, rose through the ranks of the World Bank to become managing director, and now chairs the board of the global vaccine alliance GAVI. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala tells us her concerns about the continuing spread of COVID-19 across Africa and the devastating impact an economic contraction would have on years of development. Also in this episode, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet talks about the links between COVID-19 and race and inequality - and also on how police and governments must deploy an intelligent, sensitive response to unrest.

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed speaks at this week’s Great Reset Dialogue, seeking a better, fairer, greener global economy as we rebuild out of the COVID-19 pandemic. Other speakers include: Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey, RockCreek Founder and CEO Afsaneh Beschloss, Ning Zhu, Professor of Finance, Tsinghua University in Shanghai  and World Economic Forum Managing Director Saadia Zahidi. The host is the Forum’s Adrian Monck.

World Economic Forum Founder and Executive Chairman Klaus Schwab and HRH Prince of Wales launch the Great Reset - a call to build a greener, smarter and fairer world as we seek a way out of the COVID-19 pandemic. They are joined by the heads of the UN, IMF and major global companies, among others. Learn more at www.weforum.org

This week the World Economic Forum and the Prince of Wales launched the Great Reset - a project to bring the world's best minds together to seek a better, fairer, greener, healthier planet as we rebuild from the pandemic. The podcast includes contributions from IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva, labour representative Sharan Burrow and the chief executives of Microsoft, Mastercard and BP.

In January, Stanford historian and author Niall Ferguson saw the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan for what it was - a pandemic in the making. But what can history teach us about recovery and the road ahead?

Max Hall interviews Gita Gopinath, Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund about the economic situation arising from the COVID-19 outbreak.

The 'Great Lockdown' that is ravaging the global economy is quite unlike the financial crash of 2008 and requires a different and even bigger response, the IMF Chief Economist says. Also: a survey of 350 business leaders reveals what they see as the biggest risks from the pandemic in the next 18 months.

Mike Sepso, Co-founder & CEO Vindex by World Economic Forum

With sports in lockdown, online gaming is enjoying a bonanza. Will esports replace physical games in the long term? And why were gamers better prepared than the rest of us to weather the pandemic? Plus: the race for a virus - we hear from companies on the scientific front line.

Ross Chainey interviews NBA chief Mark Tatum, chief operating officer of the National Basketball Association about the impact the lock down has had on his sport. 

What would a child ask a doctor about COVID-19? On this week’s World Vs Virus, Dr Ranj Singh, presenter of BBC TV's 'Get Well Soon', takes questions from a panel of youngsters, and shares tips on how best to talk to children about the pandemic.

David Knowles interviews science writer Laura Spinney about the historic parallels between this outbreak and the outbreak of the Spanish Flu in 1918.

Digital Editor, Anna Bruce Lockhart interviews Jennifer Morgan, Executive Director of Greenpeace International about the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the fight against climate change.  

It infected one-third of the world’s population and killed 50 million people, but for most of us the Spanish Flu is little more than a footnote of history. Author and science journalist Laura Spinney tells us what we have still to learn from from the 20th Century's worst pandemic.

Jennifer Morgan, head of Greenpeace International, says why the fight against climate change must not be considered an unaffordable luxury as we struggle with COVID-19. And Yale's happiness professor, Laurie Santos, gives her tips on mental wellbeing.    

Bestselling author Adam Grant has advice for employers and employees on coping with COVID-19 lockdown, finding JOMO (the joy of missing out), and how we might achieve 'post-traumatic growth'        

An interview with Adam Grant on how we can manage throughout the coronavirus crisis

David Miliband interview by World Economic Forum

How are poorer countries facing up? We speak to David Miliband of the International Rescue Committee, and hear from Bangladesh and a Somali refugee. Also: a pastor, a rabbi and a mullah walk into a Zoom chat; and listen to what COVID-19 sounds like.  

Doctor and bestselling author Matt McCarthy shows us life on the front line in New York City. Also: a submariner shares his tips for surviving lockdown.  

Bruce Aylward, Assistant Director-General of the WHO, speaks to the World Economic Forum about the COVID19 coronavirus pandemic

  The World Health Organization tells us how long is a lockdown, and YouTuber Molly Burke describes living under the threat of COVID-19 when you're blind.    

Economist Nouriel Roubini explains why the economic impact of the COVID-19 coronavirus will be different than anything we have seen before, and a mental health expert gives tips on staying sane.    

An interview with Sharan Burrow, General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation, on some of the challenges facing workers during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic

This episode features Alice Charles in conversation with Mauricio Rodas, Former Mayor of Quito, Ecuador.

This episode features Alice Charles in conversation with Zarina Patel, Senior Lecturer, Environmental and Geographic Science, University of Cape Town.

This episode features Alice Charles in conversation with Eugenie Birch, Nussdorf Professor and Co-Director, Penn Institute for Urban Research, University of Pennsylvania.

This episode features Alice Charles in conversation with Ger Baron, Chief Technology Officer for the City of Amsterdam.

This episode features Alice Charles in conversation with Penny Abeywardena, Commissioner for International Affairs at the City of New York.

This episode features Alice Charles in conversation with Hazem Galal, Global Leader, Cities and Local Government, at PwC.

This episode features Alice Charles in conversation with Abha Joshi-Ghani, Senior Adviser, Infrastructure, Public-Private Partnerships and Guarantees at the World Bank.

In the second episode of this season, we collaborate with Azeem Azhar, host of Exponential View, and member of the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council on Digital Economy and Society. This episode features Azeem in conversation with Anousheh Ansari, CEO of the X Prize Foundation and member of the Global Future Council on Space Technologies.

In the first episode of this season, we collaborate with Azeem Azhar, host of Exponential View, and member of the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council on Digital Economy and Society. This episode features Azeem in conversation with Lisa Witter, co-founder and executive chairman of Apolitical and co-chair of the Global Future Council on Agile Governance.

What are the most significant trends we are seeing as city administrations prepare for the fourth industrial revolution and what can we expect in the coming years? Is all the technology innovation we see in consumer markets really necessary for all cities around the world, or maybe just some? What are the most innovative business models and technologies that have had a transformative effect on global cities? What are the key traits of a city that is open to innovation? In this week's episode of "A Glimpse into the Future," we talk to Abha Joshi-Ghani, Senior Advisor on Infrastructure, Public-Private Partnerships and Guarantees at The World Bank and Carlo Ratti, Director of the SENSEable City Laboratory at MIT. Abha and Carlo are also the co-chairs of the World Economic Forum Council on Cities and Urbanization.

What value does the global financial system provide to society today? How do financial systems get decentralized? Looking to the next 10-15 years, what are the positive and negative scenarios, and what actions need to be taken now? In this week’s episode of “A Glimpse into the Future”, we talk to Cecilia Skingsley, Deputy Governor of the Swedish Central Bank and Axel P. Lehmann, President of UBS Switzerland. Cecilia and Axel are also the co-chairs of the World Economic Forum's Council on the Future of Financial and Monetary Systems.

After a number of years of economic crisis, can we now be optimistic about the progress of the global economy? What are the implications of the backlash against globalization? With the coming of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, what new opportunities or tools can help keep the global economy together? In this week’s episode of “A Glimpse into the Future”, we talk to Hélène Rey, Lord Bagri Professor of Economics at the London Business School, and member of the World Economic Forum Council on the Future of Financial and Monetary Systems.

What are the major demographic trends shaping the future of consumption? What will the major groupings of consumer archetypes be in the future? What role will our evolving values play in this shift in consumer trends? How can we ensure that we have a responsible consumption and economic growth at the same time? How do you think the future of work will shape the consumers’ spending power? What are some of the most exciting technologies that might help shape the future of consumption in the next 10 to 15 years? In this week’s episode of “A Glimpse into the Future”, we talk to Elaine Coventry, Head of Commercial Leadership for The Coca-Cola Company in Western Europe, and Chair of the World Economic Forum Council on the Future of Consumption.

We don't think about space technologies that much, but why are they important and how do they touch our everyday lives? What are the main challenges and trends in the space realm? In terms of rules and regulations in regards to space, what do we need to think about? Who is the ecosystem of players that need to come together to regulate space? Are there any lessons to be learned from how we have dealt with other global commons that can be applied to space? Are we close to having people on Mars? In this week’s episode of “A Glimpse into the Future”, we talk to Ellen Stofan, Director of the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum and Chair of the World Economic Forum Council on the Future of Space Technologies.

How optimistic can we be about achieving the Sustainable Development Goals? What positive or negative trends are we seeing that serve as deciders in achieving the SDGs? What are some of the new fourth industrial revolution technologies that might give us an extra boost in achieving the SDGs? In this week’s episode of “A Glimpse into the Future”, we talk to Charlotte Petri Gornitzka, Chair of the Development Assistance Committee at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Charlotte is also the Chair of the World Economic Forum Council on the Future of International Governance, Public-Private Cooperation and Sustainable Development.

How do we transition from fossil fuels—and can we do it smoothly? How can we ensure access to modern energy and electricity for all in the transition? What types of policies will it take to get there and how can they become reality? What do we not know or have a good sense of in this future of energy? In this week’s episode of “A Glimpse into the Future”, we talk to the co-chairs of the World Economic Forum’s Council on the Future of Energy: Jeroen van der Veer, Chairman of the Supervisory Board, ING Group, and Katherine Hamilton, Director of the Project for Clean Energy and Innovation.

After the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, what are the main areas of progress we have seen? Which emerging technologies could be a game changer for human rights protection and enforcement in the future and how? Which ones are posing new challenges to human rights and how can we address those early on? In this week’s episode of “A Glimpse into the Future”, we talk to the co-chairs of the World Economic Forum’s Council on the Future of Human Rights: Erica Kochi, co-founder of UNICEF Innovation, and Mike Posner, Jerome Kohlberg Professor of Ethics and Finance of the Stern School of Business at New York University and Director of their Center for Business and Human Rights.

How are Behavioural Sciences applied in our economy and society currently? What opportunities will they open up in the next 10-15 years? Which sectors can profit most? What are the risks with these tools being used for the wrong reasons? In this week’s episode of “A Glimpse into the Future”, we talk to Iris Bohnet and Robert J. Shiller from the World Economic Forum’s Council on the Future of Behavioural Sciences. Dr Bohnet is the director of the Women and Public Policy program at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Professor Shiller is a Nobel Laureate and a Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University.

The Fourth Industrial Revolution is an event of dizzying complexity and scale, but it is fundamentally of our own creation. Its story has not been written and its outcomes are not determined. It is our actions, in their millions, that will shape its course. How can you play your part in securing a benign revolution and steering it away from disaster? In our final episode of ’Shaping the Fourth Industrial Revolution’, we convene our own experts to discuss what we can all do as individuals to play our part in this great and important drama. With Nicholas Davies, Head of Society and Innovation.

Who will reap the benefits of the Fourth Industrial Revolution? Will it be the top 1% at the expense of the rest of us, or will the proceeds be shared equitably enough to make it worthwhile for everyone? Voters in the rich world are already showing signs of serious discontent with the proceeds of globalisation, as evidence has grown that the growth of the last decade has benefitted those at the top disproportionately. There is a risk, in the eyes of many observers, that if powerful interests are able to capture the lion’s share of the Fourth Industrial Revolution’s goodies for themselves, conflict and social upheaval will ensue. How can policymakers chart a path to a form of growth that is more inclusive as this revolution unfolds? Can the excesses of globalisation be curbed? In episode 9 of ’Shaping the Fourth Industrial Revolution’, we talk to Danny Leipziger, Managing Director of the Growth Dialogue; Jonathan Ostry, Deputy Director of the Research Department at the International Monetary Fund; Sergei Guriev, Chief Economist of the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development; Jeremy Howard, deep learning expert and founder of Fast.AI; Margareta Drzeniek-Hanouz, Head of Future of Economic Progress and Member of the Executive Committee at the World Economic Forum.

The business of government has remained cautiously analogue as our lives have digitised, and perhaps there are good enough reasons for that. Nonetheless, a new generation of digital democrats is afoot, with plans to infuse legislatures everywhere with technological upgrades. If they succeed, governments of the future will be more open, more evidence-based, more data-rich and more responsive than ever before. The notion of representation could be changed beyond recognition, and legitimacy too will adopt a different hue. Are such changes necessary or welcome? And with filter bubbles and bots entering the lexicon, how does technology also threaten the efficacy of our governing systems? We filter the issues with Beth Noveck, Director of the Governance Lab; Carl Miller, author of ‘Power: Control and Liberation in the Digital Age’; David Binetti, founder of Votizen; Pia Mancini of Democracy OS and Democracy Earth; and Audrey Tang, Taiwan’s Digital Minister without Portfolio.

What are the main challenges that the world is facing currently in the space of international security? How will the emerging technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution change this space? How can the international community ensure that these powerful new technologies do not end up in the hands of irrational actors? In this week’s episode of “A Glimpse into the Future”, we talk to the co-chairs of the World Economic Forum’s Council on the Future of International Security: Dr Shirley Ann Jackson, president of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI); and Espen Barth Eide, member of the Norwegian parliament.

As advances in AI and robotics threaten to put millions of people out of jobs, there is profound concern about the future of work in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Will human ingenuity dream up new forms of productive employment? Is the gig economy going to become the new norm and if so, can the rights workers have won over the last two centuries of struggle be protected? Joining us for episode 6 of ‘Shaping the Fourth Industrial Revolution’ are Andrew Maynard, Director of the Risk Innovation Lab at the School for the Future of Innovation in Society, Arizona State University, Jane Humphries, Professor of Economic History at All Souls College, Oxford, Sharan Burrow, General Secretary of the International Trades Union Confederation, Stuart Russell, Professor of Computer Science and Smith-Zadeh Professor in Engineering, University of California, Berkeley; Stephane Kasriel, CEO of Upwork; Sue Duke, Senior Director of Public Policy at LinkedIn, and Alexander De Croo, Deputy Prime Minister of Belgium.

With advances in genetic engineering, neuroscience, pharmaceuticals and prosthetics, are we poised to enter a ‘post-human’ era? Will we jettison the limits nature imposed, even up to mortality itself? If so, to what end? Who will have access to these powerful tools, and what will become of those that do not? For episode 6 of ‘Shaping the Fourth Industrial Revolution’, we enter an ethical minefield with Rob Sparrow of Monash University, Melbourne; James Hughes, Executive Director of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies; Nita Farahany, Professor of Law and Philosophy at Duke University; Aldo Faisal, Senior Lecturer in Neurotechnology at Imperial College London; Lord Martin Rees, United Kingdom Astronomer Royal and founder of the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk; and Meghan O’Gieblyn, a writer and journalist.

How can regulators assess the risks and mitigate them sensibly without stifling the enormous potential benefits that Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies have to offer? In episode 5 of ‘Shaping the Fourth Industrial Revolution’, we examine some of the emerging tools regulators are developing to blunt the horns of this particular dilemma. We are joined by Karen Yeung, Director of the Centre for Technology, Ethics, Law and Society at King’s College London; Nita Farahany, Professor of Law and Philosophy at Duke University; Dave Guston, Co-director of the Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes at Arizona State University; Wendell Wallach, Chair of Technology and Ethics Studies at the Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, Yale University; Gillian Hadfield, legal scholar and author of ‘Rules for a Flat World’; Rob Sparrow, ethicist and Professor at Monash University in Melbourne; Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies at the Harvard Kennedy School; and Professor Kyong-Su Yi, Head of the Vehicle Dynamics and Control Lab at Seoul National University.

How do you educate children for a future whose main characteristic is ambiguous change? How will new technologies impact what we need to learn, as well as how we do it? Can AI create personal tutors for all? Can entrepreneurialism and independence join maths and science as curriculum fundamentals? In episode four of ‘Shaping the Fourth Industrial Revolution’ we meet Ted Dintersmith, the former venture capitalist turned education philanthropist and activist; Sugata Mitra, Professor of Educational Technology and winner of the TED prize; Pasi Sahlberg, Finnish education guru and author; Brittany Bir, the CEO of programming school 42 Silicon Valley; Sylvain Kalache, co-founder of Holberton School of Software Engineering; Farb Nivi, founder of Grockit and Learnist; and deep learning expert, Jeremy Howard.

The promise of Artificial Intelligence is enormous in almost every sphere it touches; education, health, agriculture and care, to name just a few sectors. AI has clear potential to transform outcomes in just a few years. As ever, risks abound, with autonomous weapons an area of special concern for experts today, and plenty more to come. For episode 2 of ‘Shaping the Fourth Industrial Revolution’, we consult Stuart Russell, Professor of Computer Science and Smith-Zadeh Professor in Engineering, University of California, Berkeley; Jeremy Howard, founder of Fast.ai; Francesca Rossi, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Padova, Farb Nivi, founder of Grockit and Learnist; Wendell Wallach, Chair of Technology and Ethics Studies, Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, Yale University, and Co-chair of the WEF Global Future Council on Technology, Values, and Policy; Geoff Mulgan, Director of the UK’s National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts; and Erica Kochi, Co-director of UNICEF's Innovation Unit.

Whatever else the First Industrial Revolution may have been, it was an environmental calamity. As we now know, the practice of mining and burning fossil fuels on a massive scale was profoundly consequential for our planetary development. Does the Fourth Industrial Revolution give us the chance to reverse the damage we have done? Across the spectrum of environmentalist activity, there are engineers and innovators finding ways to employ new technologies to lessen our impact on ecosystems, from the startup using blockchain to drive sustainable buying decisions to the activist using satellites to bring environmental degraders to book. In episode 3 of ‘Shaping the Fourth Industrial Revolution’ we talk to John Amos, founder of Skytruth; Paul Bunje, Chief Scientist of the X-Prize Foundation; Jonathon Porritt, former Director of Friends of the Earth; Lauren Fletcher, founder and CEO of Biocarbon Engineering; Jessi Baker, Founder of Provenance; Kim Hunter, VP of Communications and Engagement at Aclima.

Humanity is embarking on an age of technological change more profound than any before it. With history as our guide, we know that massive social change will follow in its wake. In episode one of ‘Shaping the Industrial Revolution’, we introduce the framework and look at some of the best, and worst, outcomes possible, with Geoff Mulgan, Director of the UK’s National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts; Jane Humphries, Professor of Economic History at All Souls College, Oxford; Gerd Leonhard, futurist and author of ‘Technology versus Human’; and Bob Hirst, General Editor of the Mark Twain Project and curator of the Mark Twain papers at Berkeley.

What does digital transformation in manufacturing supply chains look like? How will digital disruption affect the manufacturing ecosystem? What are the major concerns we need to look out for as this digital transformation takes place, for example, in governance, cybersecurity, and skills development? In this week’s episode of “A Glimpse into the Future”, we talk to Jag Srai, Head, Centre for International Manufacturing, Institute for Manufacturing at the University of Cambridge, and member of the World Economic Forum’s Council on the Future of Production.

In this episode, Torbjørn Netland, Chair of Production and Operations Management at ETH Zurich, discusses four megatrends shaping the future of production. These are key technological developments, changes in consumer expectations, sustainability, and globalization, and will lead to radical changes in the future of production.

Where do we stand globally in terms of digital integration and where can we expect to be in the next 5-10 years? What will be the biggest impact of the digitalization of our economy? What are the biggest opportunities that the digital transformation will bring, and what are the risks to tackle? In this week’s episode of “A Glimpse into the Future”, we talk to Bhaskar Chakravorti, Senior Associate Dean at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy of Tufts University, and member of the World Economic Forum’s Council on the Future of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

What are key trends in the global innovation and entrepreneurship landscape that we should be excited about? What trends/challenges should we be concerned about? How can we proactively manage the risk of widening inequalities due to the Fourth Industrial Revolution? In this week’s episode of “A Glimpse into the Future”, we talk to Geoff Mulgan, Chief Executive of NESTA, and co-chair of the World Economic Forum’s Council on the Future of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

What is the next big transformation of the industrial internet? How will the internet of things and the use of data transform our industries worldwide? How do we make a digital trade ecosystem work in an efficient and fair way? What are the biggest challenges? And how does a digital ID program - such as the one India is undertaking - work, what are the opportunities it creates and what are the risks that come with it? In this week’s episode of “A Glimpse into the Future”, we talk to three members of the World Economic Forum’s Council on the Future of the Digital Economy and Society: - Arun Sukumar, Head of the Cyber Initiative at the Observer Research Foundation - Marietje Schaake, Member of the European Parliament - Dr Richard Soley, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Object Management Group, and Executive Director of the Industrial Internet Consortium

What is the current state of play and the strategic lines of thinking in the humanitarian system? What are the technologies that will play a role in the humanitarian system in the next 10-15 years – what is an optimistic scenario for their use and what might be some of the unintended consequences? Is there an incentive for the private sector to get involved and are there any ethical considerations to beware of? In this week’s episode of “A Glimpse into the Future”, we talk to Peter Maurer, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross and co-chair of the World Economic Forum’s Council on the Future of the Humanitarian System.

What will some of the biggest developments be in neuroscience in the next 10-15 years? Will we still have total control over our own decisions or will we lose this control? What are some of the most important or inspiring developments at the intersection of neuroscience and engineering? In this week’s episode of “A Glimpse into the Future”, we talk to Michael Platt, Professor of Neuroscience at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania; Nitish Thakor, Director of the Singapore Institute for Neurotechnology, National University of Singapore; and Neal Kassell, Chairman of the Focused Ultrasound Foundation. All three are also members of the World Economic Forum’s Council on the Future of Neurotechnologies and Brain Science.

What are the current challenges facing the phenomenon of global migration? How has the debate around migration changed in the last ten years and how will it continue to develop over the next ten years? What can and must governments do to strive toward optimistic scenarios surrounding migration? What are the new technologies impacting immigrants and refugees? In this week’s episode of “A Glimpse into the Future”, we talk to Khalid Koser, Executive Director of the Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund; Ratna Omidvar, Senator of Canada; and Yasmina Filali, Founder and President of the Fondation Orient Occident. All three are also members of the World Economic Forum’s Council on the Future of Migration.

What are the ethical dilemmas that new technologies will pose to our societies? What values should be driving technology development and application? How can we create policies that ensure our most critical values are safeguarded by unintentional effects of new technology? In this week’s episode of "A Glimpse into the Future", we talk to Wendell Wallach, Scholar at the Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics at Yale University and co-chair of the World Economic Forum’s Council on the Future of Technology, Values and Policy

In this episode, Will Knottenbelt, Professor at Imperial College London, and Catherine Mulligan, Research Fellow at Imperial College London, both co-directors of the Imperial College Centre of Cryptocurrency Research and Engineering, describe key developments in Blockchain that will influence economic and social digital transactions and structures.

Where should we expect specialized robots that can interact safely with their environment to be in the near future? What is the entrepreneurial system around these today, and how will the emerging investment trends shape their development? Which sectors would be most impacted by the integration of these robots and how prepared are our regulatory frameworks for them? In this week’s episode of "A Glimpse into the Future", we talk to Alex Wyatt, Founder and CEO of August Robotics, a company aiming to bring people-friendly robotics solutions into day-to-day life. Alex is also a member of the World Economic Forum’s Council on the Future of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics.

Which emerging technologies could help us in our efforts to preserve the environment? How can they maximize the efficiency of our use of natural resources? What are the risks that these new technologies could bring about for our environment, and what can we do to contain them? In this week’s episode of "A Glimpse into the Future", we talk to Jim Leape, Co-Director of the Center for Oceans Solutions at Stanford University; and Celine Herweijer, Partner at PwC. Both are also members of the World Economic Forum's Council on the Future of Environment and Natural Resource Security.

In this episode, Doug McCauley, Professor at the Marine Science Institute at the University of California, Santa Barbara and Director of the Benioff Ocean Initiative, describes the key challenges, developments, and implications of the Fourth Industrial Revolution that are influencing the state of the oceans.

What is Artificial General Intelligence and what will it mean if we ever get to develop it? What are the biggest risks of widespread Artificial Intelligence for our society? Can we shape the way it is introduced in our everyday life? In this week’s episode of "A Glimpse into the Future", we talk to Stuart Russell, Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Russell is also a member of the World Economic Forum’s Council on the Future of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics.

What is quantum computing and how does it work? How will it affect the digital world in the near future? What type of problems will it help us solve? In this week’s episode of "A Glimpse into the Future", we talk to Professor Jeremy O' Brien, Director of the Centre for Quantum Photonics in the University of Bristol. Professor O'Brien is also a co-chair of the World Economic Forum’s Council on the Future of Computing.

How does direct brain-computer interaction work? Will we control computers and machines with our thoughts soon? How will the advances in the field of neurotechnologies impact our health and educational systems - but also society as a whole - in the near future? In this week’s episode of "A Glimpse into the Future", we talk to Tan Le, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Emotiv, a pioneer in brain wearable technology. Tan Le is also a member of the World Economic Forum’s Council on the Future of Neurotechnologies and Brain Science.

How far are we in developing intelligent robots that can live and operate safely among us? Will robots in the future take our jobs, or help us do our jobs better? How do we design robots that can follow our ethical and moral codes? In this week’s episode of "A Glimpse into the Future", we talk to Illah Nourbakhsh, Professor of Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University and member of the World Economic Forum’s Council on the Future of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics.

What are the biggest challenges in healthcare currently? How does a human-centric health system look like? How will digital technologies, big data and precision medicine change the way we are diagnosed and treated in the future? In this weeks episode of "A Glimpse into the Future", we talk to the internationally renowned clinician and researcher, Dr Andre Goy, Chairman and Executive Director of the John Theurer Cancer Center at Hackensack University Medical Center. Dr Goy is also the co-chair of the World Economic Forum's Council on the Future of Health and Healthcare.

What is the technology behind the Bitcoin and how does it work? What applications will it have in our day to day lives? What sectors and industries will it disrupt? Are we prepared for the Blockchain Revolution? In this weeks episode of "A Glimpse into the Future", we talk to Jamie Smith, Global Chief Communications Officer of BitFury Group, former White House Communicator and co-chair of the World Economic Forum's Council on the Future of Blockchain.

How much do we understand about how our brain works? Which technologies leverage this new understanding? What will be their impact on our day-to-day lives? How can we ensure that the benefits of brain technologies don’t create an even bigger divide between the rich and the poor? In this week's episode, we talk to Dr Murali Doraiswamy, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences in the Duke Institue for Brain Sciences (DIBS). Dr Doraiswamy is also the co-chair of the World Economic Forum's Council on the Future of Neurotechnologies and Brain Science.

How close are we in having completely autonomous systems? How will autonomous vehicles and drones integrate in our lives? Will we accept "killer robots" to be developed? In this week’s interview, we talk to Mary "Missy" Cummings, Director of the Humans and Autonomy Lab at Duke University. Missy is also co-chair of the World Economic Forum’s Council on the Future of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. "A Glimpse into the Future” gives you access to insights from some of the world’s leading experts, who explore how breakthrough technologies and innovative ideas can help us actively shape our future.

"A Glimpse into the Future” gives you access to insights from some of the world’s leading experts, who explore how breakthrough technologies and innovative ideas can help us actively shape our future. In this week’s interview, we talk to Alan Cohn, Adjunct Professor of Georgetown University Law Center and co-chair of the World Economic Forum’s Council on the Future of Cybersecurity. What is the real danger of cyber threats? How can individuals, businesses and governments prepare themselves appropriately in our increasingly digitalized world? Which new technologies show promise in helping us protect ourselves against cyber threats? Tune in and find out!

This week we are talking tax and robots. Bill Gates thinks we should slow down the speed of automation by taxing robots for the work they are taking from humans. But not everyone agrees.

"We’re a nation with an economy, not an economy just in some global marketplace with open borders, but we are a nation with a culture…and a reason for being."  — Steve Bannon Will President Trump's chief strategic advisor's ideas survive their encounter with the world of government and legislation?

“A Glimpse into the Future” is a podcast series that gives you access to ideas and insights of some of the world’s greatest experts. In this week’s interview, we talk with Toomas Hendrik Ilves, former President of Estonia and co-chair of the World Economic Forum’s Council on the Future of Blockchain. How does a successful transition to a digital government look like? Why haven't countries around the world adapted to the Third Industrial Revolution yet? What are some of the new technologies that will both challenge governments and give them tools to become more efficient and safe? Tune in and find out!

“A Glimpse into the Future” is a podcast series that gives you access to the ideas and insights of some of the world’s greatest experts. In this week’s interview, we talk with Professor Justine Cassell, Associate Dean for Technology Strategy & Impact in Carnegie Mellon University and co-chair of the World Economic Forum’s Council on the Future of Computing. How will new developments in computing devices and the way we interact with them affect our education, health and mobility systems? Will it completely change the way we live? Tune in and find out!

“A Glimpse into the Future” is a series that gives you access to insights from some of the world’s top experts. Every week, a distinguished member of the Global Future Councils explores how breakthrough technologies and innovative ideas could help us actively shape our future. In this week’s episode, we talk with Bob Goodson, co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Quid. Bob is also a member of the World Economic Forum’s Council on the Future of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. How far away are we in the journey to develop true artificial intelligence? How will artificial intelligence enter our everyday lives in the upcoming decade? What are some of the disruptions it will bring with it? Tune in and find out!

“A Glimpse into the Future” is a new podcast series that gives you access to insights from some of the world’s top experts. Every week, a distinguished member of the Global Future Councils explores how breakthrough technologies and innovative ideas could help us actively shape our future. In this week’s episode, we talk with Dr Bernard Meyerson, Chief Innovation Officer of IBM and a co-chair of the World Economic Forum’s Council on the Future of Advanced Materials. How can developments in the field of materials science help us deal with issues from water access to energy security and environmental sustainability? What is blocking their way and what we can do to unlock their potential? Tune in and find out!

What you said, one week out from Davos 2017 - a short introduction to what we are looking forward to at the Annual Meeting, as well as a lookback over some of the lessons learned in 2016 about what works, and what doesn't, for engaging the great global public in digital content.

In this week's podcast, Adrian Monck talks about how to understand Davos, ahead of the Annual Meeting 2017, January 17-20.

Economists don’t like Christmas. Why should rational economic actors withhold consumption, then engage in orgiastic eating and drinking and unnecessary spending? Why should they spend money on gifts, the value of which is almost certainly less to the receiver than the giver? Adrian Monck on the economics of yuletide.

In this last edition of What you Said for 2016, what you said about a survey that showed that young people do not think democracy is as important as old people. And we look at what would happen if everyone went vegetarian. Queries or comments to [email protected]

In this weekly audio programme, I dive into the comments and questions on our most popular posts on Facebook and Twitter and pull the gems out of the slime. This week what happens when you present the results of a gender study that shows that female graduates in engineering get treated differently to male graduates, and the public's perception of artificial intelligence - is it out of control? Any feedback or suggestions for next week? drop me a line [email protected] Mike Hanley

In this week's podcast, Adrian Monck examines the mass proliferation of 'fake news' and charts how forces of paranoia and resentment underpin this dangerous form of online disinformation.

Each week, What you said trawls throught eh comment stream and feedback channels across the World Economic Forum's Facebook, Twitter, email and other digital channels to find out what you think and report back on what you said. Then we look forward to what's coming up over the course of the next week.

What happens when there aren't enough people? This week, Adrian Monck looks at population decline.

In this week's podcast, Adrian Monck talks about what we can learn about today’s global issues by applying modern day economic thinking to the fall of Ancient Rome.

Much of the narrative around the American Presidential election revolved around a "country" versus "city" conflict. In this podcast, Adrian Monck says the real conflict is not between the country and the city, but between the cities we have now, and the cities we will need in the future.

In the wake of the election of Donald J. Trump as the next President of the United States, Adrian Monck draws from the New York Review of Books, GQ and the World Economic Forum's 2011 Risk Report to examine how much power leaders really have.

In this first weekly audio programme of On Our Radar, Adrian Monck looks at the history, the causes and the consequences of populism. On our Radar this week draws from three articles: An excerpt from a political pamphlet by JP Kay, a doctor in Manchester, England at the heart of the first industrial revolution, published in 1832. A paper which looks at the causes of the rises and falls in populism in politics: The political aftermath of financial crises: Going to extremes, and A piece by an Irish academic published this week about what happens when populists are put in power.

Government leaders are preparing to meet in Paris for the 21st Conference of the Parties, or COP21, climate negotiations. The world is looking to COP21 for a crucial agreement from all countries to take action to limit the emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in order to prevent the world’s climate warming more than 2 degrees and avert catastrophic climate change. Recently the World Economic Forum published an Open Letter from the CEOs of 78 companies calling for bold action from the private sector to curb emissions. These leaders control operations in over 150 countries, generating over $2.1 trillion of revenue last year. In this programme, we hear from four global climate experts oCan n what it will take to coordinate action across clean energy, water, forests, developing and industrialised economies.

This episode of the World Economic Forum podcast will explore the changing role of robots as teammates, heroes and companions. In what way are robots and technology beginning to integrate with humanity and change the way we live our lives? How can robots help humans to become better at taking care of the world – and each other?

In this week’s podcast, we’re featuring an interview with Shimon Peres, former president of Israel, on the impact of the Israeli elections in the prospect for peace. The interview took place at our meeting in the Middle East and North Africa 2015, and is conducted by the BBC’s Lyse Doucet, Chief International Correspondent in Jordan. Author: Mike Hanley is Senior Director, Communications at the World Economic Forum Image: Copyright by World Economic Forum / Benedikt von Loebell