When people talk about the circular economy, they focus on eliminating waste by reimagining the product lifecycle – from design to end of life. And yes, that’s one aspect. But circular ap...
Almost 60% of those who voted in Italy’s referendum over the weekend said “No” to constitutional reform, marking an abrupt end to one of the most decisive reformist political moments in I...
Watch the Tolerance at the Tipping Point session from the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting 2017 here.
The world is changing rapidly, and there are endless opportunities for losing sleep at night: increasing conflict, inequality, loss of biodiversity, escalating climate change. At times, i...
Say “infrastructure” and you might think of roads. Or perhaps pipes. Pipes carrying water, gas, electricity. Buses carrying commuters to work. Cables, concrete, bridges, tunnels.
In the latter half of the 1980s a debate ensued between two camps of economists roughly grouped around the views of Edward Prescott, on the one hand, and Lawrence Summers, on the other.
Endurance swimmer, oceans advocate and Forum Young Global Leader Lewis Pugh has been called the Human Polar Bear and a Speedo Diplomat. He puts his body on the line to bring his message h...
It’s a long-standing piece of advice: to really succeed at work, you need to be a ruthless, hard-nosed go-getter. Your employees aren’t your friends, they’re there for one thing and that’...
Nearly 20 years ago, when I graduated from medical school, the world of healthcare was dominated by breakthroughs in the field of biology. But, that is changing quickly because biology is...
Imagine this: when conflict happens, and people flee, they know that – when they reach safety – they will be welcomed sympathetically and efficiently assigned to a safe, stable country, a...
The energy sector has probably undergone more rapid change in the last ten years than in the previous fifty. In a matter of a decade, shale gas production in the US increased by more than...
The Young Global Leaders and Alumni Annual Summit, the main gathering of this community, is taking place this year in Tokyo, Japan, on 18-20 October 2016. The summit will explore the YGL ...
The world of work is changing faster and more drastically than at perhaps any other time in recent history. According to research from the World Economic Forum, 35% of the skills necessar...
I started my career in operations and then became a venture capitalist. But after a couple of years in that role, I realized that I really wanted to sit on the other side of the table. I ...
Recently, many observers have been drawing parallels between China today and Japan in the late 1980s – just before its “lost decade”, where the country experienced 10 years of secular sta...
