Education: BA in Economics, Smith College; MPhil in International Economics, Graduate Institute Geneva; MPA, Harvard University. Current role: Managing Director at the World Economic Forum, heading the Centre for the New Economy and Society and the Global Communications Group. Co-Author: Future of Growth, Future of Jobs, Global Risks and Gender Gap. Author: Fifty Million Rising (2018). Awards: BBC 100 Women (2013 and 2014); Financial Times/McKinsey Bracken Bower Prize (2014); longlisted for FT/Mckinsey Business Book of the Year (2018). Interests: economics, future of work, education and skills, gender, income inequality and technology.
Every year, the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report examines national gender gaps as they stand today, and projects recent trends into the future to map the likely distance to...
Will the workplace of the future be a model for gender parity, with women enjoying equal prospects to men in terms of seniority and salary? Or will it be or a worse proposition than the o...
“It was a chance... for us to send pain the other way. And we took it.”
Même si la mondialisation a permis à beaucoup de bénéficier d’avantages sans précédent grâce à la circulation des marchandises, des services, des personnes et des idées, d’autres se sont ...
Aun cuando la globalización ha llevado a ganancias sin precedentes para muchos con el movimiento de bienes, servicios, personas e ideas, hay quienes han perdiendo, económica, política o c...
Even as globalization has led to unprecedented gains for many from the movement of goods, services, people and ideas, there are those who have lost out – economically, politically or cult...
Machines and algorithms will do more current tasks than humans by 2025, according to the World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs Report 2018, which covers 20 economies and 12 industries. Bu...
En los últimos 15 años, una cantidad sin precedentes de mujeres, en particular millenials, han salido de sus casas para comenzar a trabajar en todo el mundo musulmán. Millones se han unid...
Au cours des 15 dernières années, le monde musulman a connu un nombre jusque-là inégalé de femmes allant travailler au lieu de rester chez elles, en particulier au sein de la génération Y...
An unprecedented migration of women, particularly millennial women, has taken place from home to work across the Muslim world in the last 15 years. Millions have joined the workforce for ...
The path to a good life appears increasingly difficult to find and pursue for a growing number of people. A key factor driving these concerns is the extent to which opportunities for find...
BBC China editor quits in equal pay row. (BBC)Does rigged system allow Wall Street to hide sexual-harassment problem? (New Yorker)The full statement of the women activists attending the G...
UK government sets targets for gender and ethnic diversity in quangos. (The Guardian) Retail industry meltdown hits women hard; men remain unscathed. (Bloomberg) The terrible toll of th...
16 days of activism against gender-based violence launched. (UN Women)
EU to push for 40% quota for women on company boards. (The Guardian) Why the widening gender gap is a wake-up call for us all. (World Economic Forum) Investment assets that put women ...
