Managing Director, leading the Centre for Nature and Climate and the Forum’s Foundations (Global Shapers, Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, Young Global Leaders); previously Member of the Executive Committee and Co-Head of the Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, overseeing the Centre’s Global Network of Affiliated Centres, Innovator Communities, and Deep Tech units; earlier roles include Head of Programming and Deputy Head of the Global Programming Group, responsible for the Forum’s Annual Meetings in Davos and China, as well as programme officer positions at the International Labour Organization and UNDP; certified facilitator, public speaker, and regular commentator on the intersection of technology, society, and the economy; Professor of Practice at the University of Geneva.
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 ...
