Member of the Executive Committee and heading Network and Partnerships in the Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution; prior to that, Head of Programming and Deputy Head of the Global Programming Group, responsible for our Annual Meetings in Davos and China and our expert communities; certified facilitator, public speaker, regular commentator on issues at the intersection of technology, society, and the economy; Professor of Practice at the University of Geneva and the Technical University of Munich, amongst others.
The world economy has had sluggish growth for years. Cities are congested like never before. Man-made fake news pollutes citizens’ thinking. And our political systems seem to crack under ...
Leadership is about defining what the future should look like and getting stakeholders not only to share but develop that future together.
Exactly 200 years ago, in 1816, a teen-aged girl called Mary Shelley began writing the story of Frankenstein in a villa in Cologny, a short walk from where the World Economic Forum now ha...
At a recent talk at TEDx Lausanne, I began my remarks with two simple questions: who feels we are living in a time of remarkable innovation in science and technology? And, who believes th...
August 15, 1971, marked the end of a golden quarter. Faced with the mounting debt of the Vietnam War, rising unemployment, and a worsening balance of payments, US President Richard Nixon ...
