What are Young Global Leaders, and how are they tackling the world's biggest challenges?
What's the connection between Jimmy Wales, Amal Clooney, Emmanuel Macron, Jacinda Ardern and will.i.am? Answer? They're all Young Global Leaders.
Robin Pomeroy is in charge of the World Economic Forum's audio content and hosts the Forum's weekly flagship podcast Radio Davos. Before joining the Forum, Robin spent more than two decades at the global news agency Reuters, as a correspondent in Brussels, Rome and Tehran, and as a senior desk editor in London. He helped found the London-based media literacy charity The Charlotte Project, and taught journalism to Masters students at City, University of London. Robin is a fellow of the Knight Wallace Fellowship of journalists.
What's the connection between Jimmy Wales, Amal Clooney, Emmanuel Macron, Jacinda Ardern and will.i.am? Answer? They're all Young Global Leaders.
In the world, 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 who do.
Could carbon offsets help reduce emissions? Or are they just one more tool for greenwashing?
The World Economic Forum publishes a range of podcasts, and this episode of Radio Davos gives you a flavour of what to expect from:
In February of this year, Russia invaded Ukraine, creating a humanitarian and refugee crisis, and plunging the world into whole new economic and geopolitical uncertainties, just as we wer...
As summer sizzles in the northern hemisphere, you might be looking for a good book to take on holiday, or to help you travel in your imagination.
Every year, the World Economic Forum publishes research on the position of women in society around the world, and calculates the 'gender gap' - how far opportunities for women - in the wo...
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 th...
The global economy has been having a rocky ride. There was the pandemic, there was the supply chain squeeze coming out of the pandemic, and then Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Many develop...
Podcast episode page: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/agenda-dialogues/episodes/the-four-day-week-necessity-or-luxury
In coming years, humanity will face viruses deadlier and more infectious than COVID. Intensifying climate change will put tens of millions of refugees in flight and require us to reimagin...
After two years of COVID-induced lockdowns around the world, the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting on 23-26 May 2022 was a big, busy affair, and the first in-person event that Radio D...
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 detail o...
A highpoint of every World Economic Forum Annual Meeting is the official concert which this year was performed by Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax. While the musicians played a Catalan folk tune a...
The International Monetary Fund forecast global growth in 2022 at 4.4%, but these projections are being revised downwards as conflict and the fallout from sanctions ripple across global m...