Global cooperation is proving resilient even as multilateralism continues to face strong headwinds, according to the World Economic Forum's Global Cooperation Barometer 2026. However, cooperation is below where it needs to be to address critical economic, security and environmental challenges. Within a more complex and uncertain geopolitical context, open and constructive dialogue is a critical factor in identifying potential collaborative pathways that advance shared interests.

In its third year, the Global Cooperation Barometer 2026, developed in collaboration with McKinsey & Company, uses 41 metrics to assess the level of cooperation worldwide across five pillars: trade and capital; innovation and technology; climate and natural capital; health and wellness; and peace and security.

This is the full audio from a media briefing presenting the report, with Sheba Crocker, World Economic Forum Managing Director, Børge Brende, the Forum's President and CEO, and Bob Sternfels, Global Managing Partner at McKinsey & Company. You can watch it here: https://www.weforum.org/meetings/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2026/sessions/press-conference-global-cooperation-barometer-2026/

Download the report: https://www.weforum.org/publications/the-global-cooperation-barometer-2026/

News release: https://www.weforum.org/press/2026/01/global-cooperation-is-showing-resilience-in-the-face-of-geopolitical-headwinds/

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In 2024, 72% of Chinese consumers expressed trust in AI and 90% considered autonomous driving beneficial, while only 32% of US consumers reported trust in AI and acceptance rates for autonomous driving remained lower in Germany, the US and Japan than in China.

What factors are driving these regional differences and how might they shape the speed and approach to deploying autonomous robots?

Speakers:

Zhu Qiuguo, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Deep Robotics

Paula Ingabire, Minister of Information Communication Technology and Innovation, Ministry of Information, Communication Technology and Innovation of Rwanda

Kishor Patil, Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, KPIT Technologies

Eleanor Olcott, China Technology Correspondent, The Financial Times

 

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Agentic AI is disrupting entry-level jobs and evolving job markets are changing traditional career paths, leaving young people uncertain about the future.

How do we turn AI-driven disruption into career opportunities for young people?

Speakers:

Zhang Dandan, Professor, Deputy Dean, National School of Development, Peking University

Rahul Attuluri, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, NxtWave

Guan Xin, Anchor and Chief Business News Editor, China Global Television Network (CGTN)

Georgina Mondino, Global Shaper, Rosario Hub, Global Shapers Community

This is the full audio from a session at the AMNC25 in Tianjin, China on 25 June, 2025. 

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Helen Mountford is the president and CEO of ClimateWorks Foundation, a philanthropy platform that has granted more than a billion dollars to worthy projects and grantees in more than 50 countries since 2008. She's a key partner in a World Economic Forum initiative that launched this year called GAEA - Giving to Amplify Earth Action - and she'll tell us why philanthropy can be a critical way to fund and experiment with new ideas that can be scaled further by the private sector and how it creates an ecosystem to make big change possible.

About GAEA: https://initiatives.weforum.org/giving-to-amplify-earth-action/home

About ClimateWorks Foundation: https://climateworks.org/

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More companies have set sustainability goals than ever. But many will struggle to meet those goals. Baker McKenzie's Alyssa Auberger shares insights from a special survey that reveals business leader worries and the blindspots that some might overlook. As the global law firm's first-ever Chief Sustainability Officer, she also shares her unique journey to the role -- from pianist to lawyer to her current position -- and how the discipline and creativity required in music shapes how she works even today.

To read the survey, click here: The Race to Net-Zero: Is the global business community on course to beat the clock?: https://www.bakermckenzie.com/en/newsroom/2022/11/new-report-finds-barriers-to-net-zero-transition

To learn more about Baker McKenzie's approach to navigating risks, check out its podcast Solutions for a Connected World sharing advice on driving growth that is both sustainable – and inclusive: https://www.bakermckenzie.com/en/expertise/solutions-connected-world

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Dylan E. Taylor is the chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Voyager Space, a space infrastructure company and one of the firms helping with efforts to replace the aging International Space Station. He and his team are working hard to ensure there's no 'space station gap', all while getting the infrastructure in place so as many people as possible could one day live and work in space. 

In this episode, he talks about why expanding access to space motivates him, how his own visit to space changed him, and his experience travelling to one of the deepest parts of the ocean. In this conversation, recorded at the Annual Meeting in Davos, he also shares his approach to risk taking and how he prepares for big challenges - and how that strategy helps him make decisions quickly and navigate the unexpected. 

Transcript: https://tinyurl.com/yvr4zxbt

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Trust time, make one thing better everyday and keep upgrading yourself. CEO Yuxiang Zhou shares the lessons he has learned in co-founding Black Lake Technologies and his journey to help digitise factories -- a too-often analog world where too many still depend on paper and pencil. It's a trip through big ideas, big disappointments (including a failed startup), and the slow process of building back from the ground up. The World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer talked to Forum video producer Kateryna Gordiychuk at the Annual Meeting of the New Champions in China this summer, sharing the potential he sees for manufacturing and for cloud computing to connect factories in new ways. He also shares how taking a job on a factory shop floor and climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro helped him pivot and get the perspective he needed to focus on the right solutions and priorities. 

Episode Transcript: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/meet-the-leader/episodes/yuxiang-zhou-black-lake-technologies-startup

World Economic Forum Technology Pioneers Program: https://initiatives.weforum.org/technology-pioneers/home

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How can something as simple as a seed help the world begin to make progress across big challenges such as protecting water, tackling climate change and even strengthening food security and opportunity? Ponsi Trivisvavet, the CEO of seed design company Inari, shares the innovations that are helping to protect the earth while tackling stubborn problems like hunger.

She also shares her leadership journey, the question she feels is key to strengthening any leader's resilience and the unique approaches to biotech innovation that help this company drive cutting-edge solutions. 

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Is your team solving the right problems and building the right solutions? Are they truly pushing the envelope - in the short- and long-term? This compilation episode shares the questions top innovators ask themselves and their teams, across engineering, biotech, healthcare and more. It also highlights the practical tactics and strategies they use to keep teams challenged, focused and engaged so they are poised to develop the leading ideas that will truly reshape the future. 

This episode features: Cristiano Amon, CEO, Qualcomm; Shez Partovi, Chief Innovation and Strategy Officer, Royal Philips; Geraldine Matchett, co-CEO, DSM-Firmenich; Ponsi Trivisvavet, CEO, Inari; Rodrigo Santos, president, Crop Science Division, Bayer Crop Science; Lars Stenqvist, Volvo Group; Alex Liu, Managing Partner, Kearney.

Transcript available here: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/meet-the-leader/episodes/top-innovator-strategies-tactics

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Chief Risk Officers (CROs) are firefighters, investigators, counselors and -- critically -- the people trained to ensure companies have the systems, frameworks and culture in place to identify, assess and monitor big challenges ahead. They also help teams take meaningful action and chart a path forward. On the launch of the World Economic Forum's Chief Risk Officers Outlook, Bahare Heywood, the first ever CRO at global law firm Clifford Chance, shares her take on the report's highlights as well as the real-world approaches she believes are critical to make risk management effective in any business. She discusses strategies she used to help build a risk management culture, her personal lessons learned and the one thing all risk management plans must consider right now.

Report: Chief Risk Officers Outlook

Release: Macroeconomic and Geopolitical Conditions Pose Severe Risks to Organizations, say Chief Risk Officers

Transcript: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/meet-the-leader/episodes/clifford-chance-bahare-heywood-risk

Podcast highlights: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/07/chief-risk-officer-management-culture/

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Qualcomm has long served as a tech pioneer, driving innovations in cellular connectivity, AI, autonomous driving and more. CEO Cristiano Amon shares how digitalization will further transform our lives -- from health and retail to energy and the future of work. He also shares how Qualcomm drives innovative thinking in its teams and the simple framework any leader can use to decide which disruptive ideas to take forward.

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Hard-fought battles by leaders around the world have helped better protect nature in recent years but more work is needed to secure everything from future economic resilience to progress on climate action. Dr. Andrew Steer of the Bezos Earth Fund shares what transitions must happen this decade and the new approaches to philanthropy, policy, technology and more that can bring those transitions past the tipping point for true change. In this episode recorded at the 2023 Annual Meeting in Davos, he also shares how he's changed as a leader over his long career: from earning his Economics Ph.D., to roles at the World Bank and the World Resources Institute and other organizations, developing the approach he takes today that helps him better balance a range of competing challenges to solve the problems he wants to solve most.

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The global gender gap isn't budging, new research shows, and in this week's episode, women leaders share some of the unique policies and programs that can help build a pipeline for women in leadership and get closer to bridging that divide. Women also share the strategies that they have personally used to get their ideas heard and lead in only the way they can.

This episode features: Ashley Dartnell, Global Senior Director for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Boston Consulting Group; Jane Sun, CEO, Trip.com; Peggy Johnson, CEO, Magic Leap; Anna Katrina Shedletsky, founder, Instrumental, Nela Richardson, Chief Economist, ADP; Ashleigh Streeter-Jones, CEO and Founder, Raise Our Voice Australia; Lynn Martin, President, NYSE Group; Cristina Gamboa, CEO, World Green Building Council; Geraldine Matchett, co-CEO and CFO, Royal DSM; Becky Frankiewicz, Chief Commercial Officer, Manpower Group.

Transcript: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/meet-the-leader/episodes/how-top-women-leaders-work-and-thrive

Global Gender Gap report: https://www.weforum.org/reports/global-gender-gap-report-2023

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Businesses investing in climate resilience and adaptation could see tangible returns – $2-$19 in value for every dollar spent – while taking the necessary steps to avoid annual profitability declines from climate impacts of up to 7% by 2035.

How can new strategies, from partnerships to technology and innovation, be leveraged to strengthen these efforts?

Speakers:

Deliang Chen, Professor, Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University

Beat Strebel, Chief Executive Officer, Reinsurance China; Country President, China, Swiss Reinsurance Company   Qin Yi, Presenter and Reporter, Shanghai Media Group   Mahmoud Mohieldin, UN Special Envoy for Financing Sustainable Development, United Nations   Solveigh Hieronimus, Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company   Lindsay Hooper, Chief Executive Officer, University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership  

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https://www.weforum.org/meetings/annual-meeting-of-the-new-champions-2025/sessions/next-steps-for-climate-adaptation/

 

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Amid pressures on the global economy from recent major crises and renewed turbulence in financial markets, stakeholders will need to convert the bright spots of accelerated trade and investment in green and innovative industries into a new paradigm for sustained growth.

How can both government and the private sector draw on the opportunities stemming from this time of change and transition to rewire the models underpinning global growth?

Speakers:

Zhang Yuzhuo, Chairman, State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC)

Pham Minh Chinh, Prime Minister of Viet Nam

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director-General, World Trade Organization (WTO)

Mia Mottley, Prime Minister of Barbados, Barbados Government

Chris Hipkins, Prime Minister of New Zealand

Børge Brende, President, World Economic Forum

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Speaking to the media during COVID drove home to epidemiologist Prativa Baral the need for clear science communication training so experts can build trust with the public and be understood. Her experience led her to found Let Science Connect, a social enterprise that trains scientists and technical experts how to speak without jargon and connect more effectively with audiences. She shares the frameworks and tips that can help anyone get their message heard. 

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This Co-CEO and CFO explains how biotech leader Royal DSM invests in innovation that propels the company in the short term while putting in place the solutions that will be critical for the future. She'll share key mindsets, such as the frameworks critical for balancing present and future needs, the key role purpose plays, and more. She also shares the skillset that must be built in the next 3 years that not every leader might be considering and the surprising advice that shapes how she looks at leadership - and that helped convince her to take her current role. 

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In this special compilation episode, top CEOs, founders, activists reveal the advice that shaped them, helping them change their minds and their approaches to work and life, improving on everything from patience and authenticity to how they team and learn.

Featured in this episode: Leif Johansson, former non-executive chairman at AstraZeneca, AstraZeneca; Marie-France Tschudin, President of Innovative Medicines International and Chief Commercial Officer, Novartis; Caroline Casey, founder, the Valuable 500; Nicola Mendelsohn, Head of the Global Business Group, Meta; Cassandra Mao, Chief Strategy Officer, Halo Car; Ponsi Trivisvavet, CEO, Inari; Melonie Parker, Chief Diversity Officer, Google; Blake Scholl, founder, Boom Supersonic; Nazanin Boniadi, activist and actress.

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The World Economic Forum's Future of Jobs report finds that 44% of worker skills will be disrupted in the next five years. In this episode, experts from Google, LinkedIn and more talk about the mindsets and approaches that will help workers and employees navigate the skills disruption ahead - and what some companies are already putting into place to help workers stay relevant. 

In this episode: Becky Frankiewicz, Chief Commercial Officer, Manpower Group; Nela Richardson, Chief Economist at ADP; Valérie Beaulieu, Chief Sales and Marketing Officer, Adecco Group; Judith Wiese, Chief People and Sustainability Officer, Siemens; Melonie Parker, Chief Diversity Officer at Google; Lindiwe Matlali, founder, Africa Teen Geeks; Allen Blue, co-founder, LinkedIn, Nicolas Schmit, Commissioner for Jobs and Social Rights, European Commission, Soon-Joo Gog, Chief Skills Officer, SkillsFuture Singapore; Alex Liu, managing partner and chairman at Kearney.

Transcript: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/meet-the-leader/episodes/10-leaders-on-reskilling-for-the-future-of-work

Report link: https://www.weforum.org/reports/the-future-of-jobs-report-2023

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Josef Aschbacher's role as Director General for the European Space Agency (ESA) requires mobilizing support for visionary innovations that often take decades to build. He shared the strategies he's learned while at ESA to talk about technical marvels in a clear way, without jargon, to earn buy-in for big ideas and connect with a range of stakeholders from policy makers to children. These methods for sparking inspiration, trust and excitement can be critical to any leader making long-term change a reality. He also discussed the $350-billion-dollar (and growing) space economy, sharing how a range of initiatives and shifts can foster new businesses and help ensure space will continue to strengthen economies and protect the environment for years to come.

Transcript: European space chief on speaking to inspire - and making big change possible

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Against a backdrop of persistently sluggish growth, the global economy and markets continue to be roiled by crisis after crisis. What trends will determine the prospects for the year ahead, and are there grounds for optimism that the worst may be over?

This is the full audio of the Chief Economists Briefing session at the Growth Summit, on 3 May 2023, You can watch it here:

https://www.weforum.org/events/the-growth-summit-jobs-and-opportunity-for-all-2023/sessions/global-economic-outlook-7aefadfe78

Podcast transcript available here:

https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/agenda-dialogues/episodes/growth-summit-2023-chief-economists-briefing

Speakers:

Sandra Phlippen, Chief Economist, ABN AMRO

Paul Donovan, Chief Economist, UBS Global Wealth Management, UBS AG

John Defterios, Professor of Business, New York University Abu Dhabi

Gregory Daco, Chief Economist, EY-Parthenon

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With an estimated shortfall of 10 million workers in the sector by 2030, the health and care economy is under severe stress. What multi stakeholder policies and strategies can help recruit, retain and rethink healthcare jobs?

This is the full audio from a session at the World Economic Forum's Growth Summit 2023, Future of Work - Health and Care.

Watch the session here: https://www.weforum.org/events/the-growth-summit-jobs-and-opportunity-for-all-2023/sessions/closing-the-talent-gap-healthcare

Speakers:

Ricardo Baptista Leite

Member of Parliament, Portuguese National Parliament (Assembleia da República)

Howard Catton

Chief Executive Officer, International Council of Nurses (ICN)

Bianca Rothier

International Correspondent, Globo TV

Anjali Bhagra

Professor of Medicine; Medical Director, Office of Equity, Inclusion and Diversity, Mayo Clinic

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With a background in software engineering and ad tech, Blake Scholl has an unusual CV for an aviation CEO. However, his singular passion for aviation drove him to learn this sector and eventually found a sustainable aviation company with flights twice as fast as what's offered today. Founding Boom was one of several crossroads moments in Scholl's life that drove home to him that knowledge and skills are adaptable and changeable, and there to support our passions.

In this episode, recorded at the Annual Meeting in Davos, he explains the opportunity supersonic flight offers now, decades after the famed Concorde, for tackling emissions and connecting the world. He also shared key pivot points - from leaving high school early, to hitting a wall as Boom founder - where he relied not on what he knew but what he could learn and possibly teach himself. Such an approach is critical for any listener as the job market will be increasingly transformed by a demand for new skills.

Story: Learn the skills-first approach this CEO uses at every crossroads moment

Transcript: Skills are changeable - passions are not: Boom Supersonic CEO Blake Scholl

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The CEO of Mercer, one of the world's largest human resource consultancies, shares the blind spots holding companies back from building healthier and more resilient teams. She shares how targeted uses of data can boost uptake of health and wellness benefits, the role of reskilling in future workforces and the importance of rethinking retention strategies in the long term.  

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Women constitute around 25%-30% of the AI workforce worldwide, per recent estimates. This underrepresentation is even more pronounced in senior roles, with less than 15% of executive positions held by women.

As demands for AI talent continue to grow, what are the most promising approaches to ramp up AI hiring and diversify talent sources in the broader industry?

Speakers:

Meirav Oren, Executive Chairwoman and Co-Founder, Versatile

Angela Wang Nan, Chairman and President, Neusoft Europe, Chairman, Neusoft America, Senior Vice-President, Neusoft   Yang Jingjing, Chairman of the Board, Shanghai Generative Artificial Intelligence Ecosystem Development Co.,Ltd.   Saadia Zahidi, Managing Director, Centre for the New Economy and Society and Knowledge Communities, World Economic Forum

 

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With a career that spans nearly 5 decades in science and technology -- one that includes time at AstraZeneca during its history-making effort to deliver billions of vaccines to countries around the world -- Leif Johansson shares his unique lessons learned. Before he stepped down from his role as non-executive chairman 27 April, he shared with Meet The Leader how his interest in physics has made him a better leader, the key moments that shaped him and even changed his mind, and the advice he's been most grateful for.

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A blood cancer diagnosis turned this Meta exec's day-to-day upside down in 2016. But it also reinforced a key personal philosophy: control what you can control. It's an approach that she stresses to her teams at Meta, reminding her staff to stop worrying about what they can't change and to focus instead on areas where they can make the biggest, most unique impact. And it's an approach that has empowered her to make big change happen for others, inspiring her to build a special charity to seek a cure: the Follicular Lymphoma Foundation.

In this episode, recorded at the 2023 Annual Meeting in Davos, Mendelsohn shares what she's learned about focus and resilience and how she's put those qualities to work to drive a host of innovative solutions, from leveraging virtual reality for remote meetings during COVID to building resources to support a new generation of women entrepreneurs.

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Augmented reality (AR) is transforming retail, surgery and even how we read a book. Peggy Johnson, CEO of Magic Leap -- a company pioneering in this technology -- shares how AR might evolve – and what could hold that progress back. She also shares key milestones from her decades in tech -- including the surprising lesson mobile ringtones taught her about making way for big breakthroughs and how as an introvert early in her career she found ways to get her ideas heard.

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The first UN Water Conference in almost 50 years was a watershed moment to catalyze a series of several key opportunities this year, to assess progress on the SDGs, but what are the major outcomes? How can leaders take the water action agenda forward as an enabler to address the nexus of critical issues including climate, energy, and food systems?

In this session, hosted by the World Economic Forum, high-level public and private stakeholders come together virtually to discuss the main outcomes of the UN Water Conference and the actions required to ensure a water-positive future for people and planet.

This is the audio from a panel discussion that you can watch here: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/03/beyond-the-un-water-conference-leaders-on-whats-next/

Speakers:

Jim Andrew, Executive Vice-President, Chief Sustainability Officer, PepsiCo

Beth Koigi, Co-Founder, Majik Water

Usha Rao-Monari, Undersecretary-General and Associate Administrator, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

Henk Ovink, Special Envoy for International Water Affairs of the Netherlands

Gary White, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Water.org

Matt Damon, Co-Founder, Water.org

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UN 2023 Water Conference: water is life, but it's also politics

Xylem's Patrick Decker: Purpose, focus - and effective communication

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What is your purpose? What societal impact are you driving? Patrick Decker, CEO of Xylem, shares how this water technology company is helping to tackle these questions while tackling big issues impacting society and the planet (such as water scarcity, water infrastructure and emissions), leveraging everything from technology (AI and digital twins) to innovative demand deposit accounts.

On this episode, released ahead of the UN 2023 Water Conference, Decker shares the virtuous circle purpose creates - how it draws motivated people to join teams, attracts partners and commercial teams, drives fresh thinking and keeps a cross-section of groups aligned on big goals. Decker shared the practical ways leaders can keep teams in touch with a shared purpose -- from aligned communication (that sidesteps confusion) to a simple question asked at the top of meetings to keep conversations focused.

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Too many groups, including women and gender diverse people, do not see themselves as policymakers or politicians. Raise Our Voice Australia works to change that by providing special training on how the political system works, as well as tactical skills in areas like community building and having conversations with people you disagree with. Founder Ashleigh Streeter-Jones shares the important role a mentor played in crafting a step-by-step process to launch the social enterprise, one that helped break the massive project into 'bite-sized' pieces, a process that can be instrumental for founders of any startup or initiative. In fact, Streeter-Jones has a circle of mentors she turns to for advice and commiseration, and she shares the key role that mentoring plays in sharing knowledge and building anything big. 

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With growing social polarisation and a lack of trust in the fairness of economic systems, progress on more efficient global taxation mechanisms, such as the OECD's global corporate tax deal, is becoming essential.

How can we address the tax challenges raised by digitalisation and ensure a fairer redistribution of tax revenues across countries?

This is the full audio of the session at the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting 2023.

Speakers:

Joumanna Bercetche, Anchor, CNBC (moderator)

Zainab Shamsuna Ahmed, Nigerian Minister of Finance

Mathias Cormann, Secretary-General, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Gabriel Zucman, Director, EU Tax Observatory

Faisal Alibrahim, Saudi Minister of Economy and Planning

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https://www.weforum.org/events/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2023/sessions/is-global-tax-reform-stalling

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The second woman in history to run the New York Stock Exchange shares her 'non-linear' path to the role of President and the integral role her background in programming, technology and statistics plays in running a modern stock exchange. In a conversation recorded at the 2023 Annual Meeting in Davos, she talks about her first year on the job, the simple habit that helped her navigate 2022's rollercoaster year for stocks, the books inspiring her now, and what's needed to get more women into finance and tech.

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COVID-19 set women at work back 'a generation.' Learn why — and what can be done to bridge gender gaps, burnout and tackle labor scarcity from ManpowerGroup's Becky Frankiewicz.

In this episode, recorded at the Annual Meeting in Davos, Frankiewicz delves into the value of thinking 'skills-first,' how leaders can ensure flexible work works for everyone, what it means to be 'visible' in the workplace and the soft skill some tech fields need most. 

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Flows of capital, goods, services and people have boosted productivity and living standards, tripling the size of the global economy over the past three decades. However, tensions over trade and investment are undermining growth and trust.

As the cost of further disintegration severely outweighs the benefits, how can leaders reshape the current system to develop a new agenda for trade, growth and investment?

This session is directly linked to the ongoing work of the Trade and Investment Platform of the World Economic Forum.

This is the full audio of the session at the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting 2023.

Speakers

Robert Habeck, Vice-Chancellor and Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, Germany

Alexander De Croo, Prime Minister, Belgium

Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director-General, World Trade Organization

Laurence D. Fink, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, BlackRock Inc.

Børge Brende, President, World Economic Forum (host)

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While the economy is being transformed by geopolitical and technological shifts, complex challenges, from development to climate, require new ideas and collaboration.

How can entrepreneurial thinking and new innovations take us out of short-term thinking to provide long-term solutions to today's challenges?

 

Speakers:

Mirek Dušek, Managing Director, Chief Business Officer and Head of Global Programming, World Economic Forum

Stephanie Riady, Chief Executive Officer, Pelita Harapan Group, Lippo Group

Paula Ingabire, Minister of Information Communication Technology and Innovation, Ministry of Information Communication Technology and Innovation of Rwanda

Haojun Jia, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Deep Principle

Adam Tooze, Director, European Institute, Columbia University

Cheryl Cui, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Bota Biosciences

 

This is the full audio from a session at the AMNC25 in Tianjin, China on 26 June, 2025. Watch it here: https://www.weforum.org/meetings/annual-meeting-of-the-new-champions-2025/sessions/entrepreneurship-for-a-new-era/

 

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Investors in natural ecosystems face hard choices to ensure credible outcomes at scale, given the rapid action needed to stabilize Earth systems and legitimate concerns of greenwashing.

An expert panel asks: How can data, regulation and Indigenous knowledge spur investors to channel resources towards quality conservation and restoration at scale?

This is the full audio of the session at the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting 2023.

Speakers

Andrew Steer, President and Chief Executive Officer, Bezos Earth Fund

Helena Gualinga, Co-Founder, Indigenous Youth Collective of Amazon Defenders

Suzanne DiBianca, Chief Impact Officer, Salesforce

Luiz Fernando do Amaral, Chief Executive Officer, Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi)

Katherine Garrett-Cox, Chief Executive Officer, GIB Asset Management, Gulf International Bank (UK)

Nicole Schwab, Co-Head, Nature-Based Solutions; Member of the Executive Committee, World Economic Forum Geneva

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A more sustainable future means transforming how business is done. In a special conversation recorded at the 2023 Annual Meeting in Davos, PepsiCo's CEO Ramon Laguarta shared how the food and beverage giant is rethinking things like packaging and consumption models - and how de-risking investments, scaling new habits and the right mix of internal collaboration and competition can spur innovation. 

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The ties that bind the world economy together have frayed in recent years. From the competition over advanced microchip manufacturing between the US and China to Russia's war in Ukraine, globalization is undeniably entering a new phase. But has globalization reached the end of the line — or is a resurgence on the cards?

This is the full audio of the session at the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting 2023 that you can watch here: De-Globalization or Re-Globalization?

Speakers

Ian Bremmer, President, Eurasia Group (host)

Adam Tooze, Director, European Institute, Columbia University

Ngaire Woods, Dean, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford

Niall Ferguson, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University

Péter Szijjártó, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hungary

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Caroline Casey is the founder of The Valuable 500, an organization that represents 22 million workers across 64 sectors worldwide working to end disability exclusion. Key to this effort is bridging a data gap to make it easier to track progress for inclusion and make apples-to-apples comparisons between companies. But critical, too, is ensuring leaders have the skills and the mettle to transform their organizations for a more inclusive world. She shares her journey in founding The Valuable 500, what motivates her and how a mentor changed how she thinks about impact. She also shares why a leader's self-awareness is critical to better managing people - and what could be unlocked if more CEOs engaged in therapy. 

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In a tight labor market, how can you ensure you're filling much-needed roles with the right people? And once they're hired, how can you ensure those new staffers stay for the long haul? Valerie Beaulieu, Adecco Group's Chief Sales and Marketing Officer, shares why labor scarcity is here to stay, how companies can navigate hiring, and how workers can make the most of this moment. She also shares a skill she honed in an early career as a journalist and how it can help any leader spot new talent trends as they emerge.

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More people have a bank or mobile account than ever before, giving more people in the developing world and beyond a chance build savings, grow businesses and protect their families from the next global shock. But despite big gains in financial inclusion, there's much more work to do. This work is especially urgent as a new swirl of economic, humanitarian and climate shocks could make getting payments to people quickly and efficiently more important than ever. Al Kelly, Jr, Executive Chairman and former CEO of Visa shared what's needed next to bridge gaps and reach true financial inclusion in an interview recorded at the Annual Meeting in Davos in 2023. He also shares the questions all good leaders ask themselves as well as the lessons he learned from an early role at the White House and from Visa's founder and first CEO Dee Hock.

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The engines of global growth are slowing and the number of households and businesses facing economic distress is rising.

What does the future of growth look like and what policies are needed to stabilize the global economy?

This is the full audio of the session at the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting 2023 that you can watch here: Davos 2023: Global Economic Outlook: Is this the End of an Era?

Speakers:

Geoff Cutmore, Anchor, CNBC

Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund

Christine Lagarde, President, European Central Bank

Bruno Le Maire, Minister of Economy, Finance and the Recovery and Industrial and Digital Sovereignty of France, Ministry of Economy, Finance and Industrial and Digital Sovereignty

Kuroda Haruhiko, Governor, Bank of Japan

Lawrence H. Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor, Harvard Kennedy School of Government

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At the Annual Meeting in Davos this year, we asked CEOs, activists and civil society leaders how leaders can prioritize what really matters despite a swirl of challenges: an energy crisis, a food crisis, geopolitical conflict, a potential economic downturn, and more. They shared their strategies and secrets -- from how they make time in their calendars and unlock 'people power', to how they tap 'unhealthy impatience'. Learn the 'tells' that reveal you're building momentum and the tough questions you must ask yourself to ensure your actions are really laddering up to your values. 

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Roy Jacobs, CEO, Royal Philips; Harmony Jade Wayner, vice-chair, Arctic Youth Network; Deborah Braide, sustainable energy leader and researcher, E-Guide; John Schultz, Chief Operating Officer, Hewlett Packard Enterprise; Blake Scholl, founder and CEO, Boom Supersonic; Alyssa Auberger, Chief Sustainability Officer, Baker Mackenzie; Delia Ferreira Rubio, Chair of Transparency International; Lynn Martin, president of NYSE Group; Geraldine Matchett, co-CEO and CFO, Royal DSM; Alex Liu, managing partner and chairman, Kearney; Becky Frankiewicz, Chief Commercial Officer, Manpower Group, Inc.; Dr. Andrew Steer, president and CEO, Bezos Earth Fund.

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Driving growth, equity and transformative solutions to today's challenges needs more gender-diverse leadership across the economy, politics and civil society. However, progress on parity is stalling globally.

An expert panel asks: How can we create better pathways to advance more women into the highest levels of leadership?

Speakers include: Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, Leader of the Democratic Forces of Belarus, Republic of Belarus; Masih Alinejad, Journalist and Activist, U.S. Agency for Global Media; Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of the State of Michigan, United States Office of the Governor; Arancha Gonzalez Laya,Dean, The Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA), Sciences Po

This session was recorded 19 January at the World Economic Forum 2023 Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland.

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What if the next time your smartphone broke, you could fix it yourself? The repairable, sustainable smartphone maker Fairphone does just that all while helping to wean consumers off the quest for the thinnest, latest gadget -- a cycle that simply adds tons of valuable materials to landfill annually. Founder Bas van Abel joins Meet the Leader for a frank talk about what's really involved in making a smartphone, his journey from designer to device CEO, and the tough moments he faced in the startup's early days to stay on track with the startup's sustainable mission. He'll also share why he founded two startups tackling circularity (Fairphone and food waste startup De Clique) and what's needed for true system change. He'll also explain what excites him about social enterprise and how entrepreneurs with big ideas for sustainability can tackle multiple challenges at once, from working conditions to resource protection, helping to reshape entire sectors and practices in the process.

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Women have made remarkable strides in political representation in the past decade, making up 35.5% of local government officials, 33% of parliamentarians, 24.4% of ministers and 15.5% of heads of state. Yet political power remains out of reach for a disproportionate number of women.

How can this persistent gap be tackled?

This is the full audio from a panel discussion from the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting on 22 January, 2025.

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Read the Forum's Global Gender Gap Report 2025: https://www.weforum.org/publications/global-gender-gap-report-2025/

Speakers:

Thérèse Kayikwamba Wagner, Minister of State, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Mina Al-Oraibi, Editor-in-Chief, The National

Catherine De Bolle, Executive Director, Europol

François Valérian, Chair, Transparency International

Alicia Bárcena Ibarra, Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources, Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources of Mexico

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Europe is facing a slow-growth, high-debt and high-inflation economy, even as labour markets remain persistently tight. With limited fiscal and monetary tools available, where can Europe's leaders find the space to deliver growth?

A panel of top experts digs into this topic at the 2023 Annual Meeting in Davos Switzerland, including: Mark Rutte, Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Office of the Prime Minister of the Netherlands; Valdis Dombrovskis, Executive Vice-President for an Economy that Works for People; Commissioner for Trade, European Commission; Christian Sewing, Chief Executive Officer, Deutsche Bank AG; Christine Lagarde President, European Central Bank; Andrej Plenković, Prime Minister of Croatia, Office of the Prime Minister of Croatia.

This conversation was recorded at the Annual Meeting in Davos Switzerland 19 January.

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In the face of a 'polycrisis' - an energy crisis, a climate crisis, geopolitical conflict and a potential economic recession, what's needed to ensure global cooperation on climate action continues?

Learn more from this panel held at the World Economic Forum 2023 Annual Meeting 18 January with top voices, including: Julia Chatterley, Anchor, CNN; Jesper Brodin, Chief Executive Officer, Ingka Group (IKEA); Helena Gualinga, Co-Founder, Indigenous Youth Collective of Amazon Defenders; Anna Borg, President and Chief Executive Officer, Vattenfall AB; Jennifer Morgan, State Secretary and Special Envoy for International Climate Action, Federal Foreign Office of Germany; John F. Kerry; Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, National Security Council (NSC).

This session was developed in collaboration with CNN.

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Alex Karp shares with Carlyle Group founder David Rubenstein how he founded and leads software company Palantir Technologies. This thoughtful, wide-ranging conversation covers serious topics such as how its work with governments powers anti-terror efforts and counters human rights abuses. It also includes its share of light and even funny moments, including Karp's non-traditional background, his hair and why he lives in the New Hampshire.backwoods..

This conversation was recorded at the Annual Meeting in Davos Switzerland 18 January.

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