Neo Gim Huay is Managing Director and Member of the Managing Board at the World Economic Forum. She also serves as Chair of Greater China and oversees the Centre for Energy and Materials and the Forum’s Asia Strategy.
Before joining the Forum, Gim Huay held various managing director roles at Temasek International, namely climate change strategy, sustainability and enterprise development. She previously worked as a management consultant at McKinsey & Co in the Lagos, New York and San Francisco offices, and served as an administrative officer in the Singapore public service, with positions in the Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Trade and Industry, the Prime Minister’s Office and the Singapore Embassy in the United States.
Gim Huay holds an MBA from Stanford University, graduating as an Arjay Miller Scholar. She also holds a Master of Engineering (Distinction) and BA (First Class Honors) from the University of Cambridge. She was selected as an Eisenhower Fellow in 2015 and TIME100 Climate Leader in 2023.
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Amid trade and geo-economic tensions, extreme weather events, social polarization and disruptive technological changes, the global outlook may seem more unsettled than ever. Yet, it is in...
*本寄稿文は、イーカイ・グローバルの記事を転載・和訳したものです。
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今後10年間で最も深刻なグローバルリスクは環境に関わるものであり、そのすべてが水と密接に関連しています。世界経済フォーラムの『グローバルリスク報告書2025』によると、懸念事項の上位を占めるのは「異常気象」「生物多様性の喪失」「地球システムの危機的変化」「天然資源不足」です。このことは、生態系を保護し、資源を確保し、レジリエンスを構築するための長期的な戦略の必要性を浮き彫...
The most pressing global risks over the next decade are environmental – and all closely linked to water. Extreme weather, biodiversity loss, critical changes to Earth’s systems, and natur...
Esperanza y posibilidad. Esos fueron los sentimientos predominantes que surgieron durante la Reunión Anual del Foro Económico Mundial de este año en mis conversaciones con líderes empresa...
Hope and possibility. Those were the resounding sentiments that emerged from this year’s World Economic Forum Annual Meeting during my conversations with business and political leaders, a...
Land provides us with our material needs such as food, clothing, shelter and infrastructure. Unfortunately, while rapid human development has lifted millions out of poverty and disease, t...
Access to water is recognized as a human right, being vital for human health and survival. Even though water is responsible for nearly 60% of economic activity, over 2 billion people stil...
建物は人類のニーズに応えるために建設されます。建物は自然を形成し、自然によって形成されます。私たちが建物を形成するように、建物も私たちを形成するのです。北米からアジアにかけて熱波が猛威を振るい、2024年の夏は記録的な猛暑になると予想されている今、排出量を削減する方法として、また気候変動への適応を助ける方法として、我々が身を置く建物に注目すべき時です。
This article first appeared in Caixin Global.
More than $200 billion is needed annually for adaptation and resilience investments in water and energy systems, agriculture improvements and early-warning systems. This is set to rise if...
世界経済フォーラムの「グローバルリスク報告書2024年版」は、今後10年間における自然関連リスクの重要性と深刻さを改めて強調し、私たちが世界的に直面する最も重大な課題として位置づけています。地理的境界、産業セクター、バリューチェーンをまたがるこれらのリスクには、緊急かつ共同の対応が必要です。
