António Guterres, the United Nations secretary-general, has been one of the highest-profile advocates for the fight against climate change. That effort has been rattled by promises by U.S. President ...

Has the merry-go-round of the global elite summit – epitomised by the World Economic Forum (WEF) at Davos, which concluded this weekend – had its day? As I saw at Davos when I was editor of ...

“We’re anticipating a rebalancing of the Davos agenda this year as, ultimately, CEOs want to get stuff done”, said Christoph Schweizer, global chief executive of Boston Consulting Grou ...

Tuesday saw the World Economic Forum in Davos begin in earnest. Not even a star turn from David Beckham could stop AI dominating conversations.

The event has always tried to position itself as an exercise for bettering the world, but there have always been two Davos agendas. There’s the nominal agenda put out by the World Economic Forum ...

“We face a vicious cycle,” Tharman Shanmugaratnam, president of Singapore, told us during the GAEA Awards held in the Forum’s ...

Goldman Sachs boss David Solomon, Uber chief executive Dara Khosrowshahi and investment banker Ken Moelis were among those who attended events in the US capital to mark the inauguration of Donald ...

At the World Economic Forum 2025 in Davos this week, a coalition of leaders from across Brazilian sectors will discuss the integrated, pre-competitive agenda needed to scale forest restoration.

Trade and Industry Minister of Norway Cecilie Terese Myrseth, 2nd right, sign an EFTA Free Trade Agreement at the Annual Meeting of World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Wednesday, Jan. 22 ...

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DAVOS, Switzlerand (AP ... lies and a reactionary agenda” and now have "begun to compete unfairly with the strategic sectors of our economies, such as banking, retail and media outlets.

Davos, Switzerland 25 th January 2025 Smriti Irani, Chairperson of the Alliance for Global Good: Gender Equity and Equality, emerged as a transformative force, leading several key initiatives on ...