Browsing: General Interest

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Celine Herweijer Global Leader, Innovation and Sustainability, PwC Dominic Kailash Nath Waughray Managing Director, Head of…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Lorraine Martin, Queen’s University Belfast and James Reihill, Queen’s University Belfast[/box] The White House recently announced…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Joel Moser Founder and CEO, Aquamarine Investment Partners This article is part of the Sustainable Development Impact…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Marcello Trovati, Edge Hill University[/box] “Can machines think?”, asked the famous mathematician, code breaker and computer…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””] Lisa Dreier Senior Program Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School Corporate Responsibility Initiative David Nabarro Director, 4SD…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Radek Stefanski, University of St Andrews[/box] European governments often appear to champion low-carbon policies. Yet, in…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Hussain Rasheed Hassan Minister of Environment, Republic of Maldives Valerie Cliff Deputy Regional Director, UNDP in…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Roger J Kreuz Associate Dean, College of Arts & Sciences, University of Memphis This article is…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Tim Schweisfurth, University of Southern Denmark[/box] The mountain bike wouldn’t exist if it wasn’t for disgruntled…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Louis Roy President and founder, Optel Group This article is part of the Sustainable Development Impact Summit[/box]…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Johnny Wood Senior Writer, Formative Content[/box] Imagine a world free of malaria. It’s not such a…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Nick Longrich, University of Bath[/box] In the past half-billion years, Earth has been hit again and…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]David Benton, Swansea University and Hayley Young, Swansea University[/box] Fruit juice was once viewed as part…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Ayla Majid Managing Director, Financial Advisory Services, Khalid Majid Rehman[/box] Pakistan has been the 8th-most affected country…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Robert Govers Author, “Imaginative Communities” This article is part of the World Economic Forum on Africa[/box] For…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Maria Damanaki Global Managing Director, Oceans, Nature Conservancy[/box] What if I showed you evidence suggesting the…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Jackline Wahba, University of Southampton[/box] Forced displacement is a global challenge. The number of displaced people…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Alex Liu Managing partner, AT Kearney This article is part of the World Economic Forum on Africa[/box]…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Pushan Dutt, INSEAD[/box] Japan and South Korea are showing no signs of resolving an escalating trade…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Peter Thomson United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for the Ocean, United Nations[/box] Sustainable Development Goal 14.6 is…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Paulo Barreto Senior Research, IMAZON- Instituto do Homem e Meio Ambiente da Amazônia Robert Muggah Co-founder,…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Brad Power Founding member, myCancerDB[/box] Cancer treatment is not one-size-fits-all. Thanks to medical advancements, people receiving…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Andrew Baker, University of Sheffield and Richard Murphy, City, University of London[/box] A major priority for…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Ian Lambert, Edinburgh Napier University[/box] Beachcombing has long been a part of life for island communities.…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Beñat Bilbao-Osorio Head, Frontier Insights, World Economic Forum[/box] The end of this week will showcase two…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Brett Walton Reporter, Circle of Blue This article was originally published by Circle of Blue[/box] In Chennai and Harare today,…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Garfield Benjamin, Solent University[/box] Not content with monitoring almost everything you do online, Facebook now wants…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]David Flynn, Heriot-Watt University and Valentin Robu, Heriot-Watt University[/box] The modern world depends on the smooth…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Johnny Wood Writer, Formative Content[/box] What do you want to be when you grow up? It’s…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Julian Torres Santeli Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Fellow, World Economic Forum, Manager at Deloitte Canada’s…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Matt Davis Writer, The Big Think This article was originally published by Big Think[/box] The humble…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Philip Roscoe, University of St Andrews[/box] Protests in Hong Kong have captured the world’s attention in…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Wadia Ait Hamza Head of the Global Shapers Community, World Economic Forum Natalie Pierce Interactions &…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Winnie King, University of Bristol[/box] The US has escalated its trade war with China by accusing…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Shahzada Ahmad Ikerbasque Professor & European Research Council Principal Investigator[/box] Our planet is facing an unprecedented…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Johnny Wood Writer, Formative Content[/box] Is our planet approaching a climate change cliff edge? Across the…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Mackenzie Graham, University of Oxford[/box] Around the world thousands of people are on organ donor waiting…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]John Bryson, University of Birmingham[/box] One of the beacons of UK social housing policy, the legislation…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Anna Pujol-Mazzini Journalist at Thomson Reuters Foundation This article was originally published by Reuters[/box] Tired of…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Aurore Julien, University of East London[/box] The warmer it gets, the more people crank up the…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Johnny Chi Jingtao Chairman, COFCO Corporation[/box] Journalists, politicians and regular citizens have spent much time in…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Jose Graziano da Silva Director-General, United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization Maria Helena Semedo Deputy Director-General…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””] Jefim Vogel, University of Leeds; Joel Millward-Hopkins, University of Leeds, andYannick Oswald, University of Leeds[/box]…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Vinay Mendonca Managing Director; Global Head, Product and Structuring, Trade and Receivables Finance (GTRF), HSBC[/box] When…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Joelle Hangi Director, Refugee Artists and Authors, Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya Mariah Levin Head of Forum…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Gita Gopinath Chief Economist, International Monetary Fund (IMF) This article is published in collaboration with IMF…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]William Dixon Head of Operations, Centre for Cybersecurity, World Economic Forum Rebekah Lewis Project Lead, Governance…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Khaled Kesseba, Sheffield Hallam University and Konstantinos Lagos, Sheffield Hallam University[/box] Discoveries of natural gas reserves…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Dan Salazar Director, Mastercard Carlos Monteverde Product Manager, Mastercard[/box] What good is a hammer without a…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Charlotte Edmond Formative Content[/box] Belching bovines are a primary culprit when it comes to greenhouse gas…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Tom Baum, University of Strathclyde [/box] Few would deny the threat to our planet posed by…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Marc Penzel Founder and COO, Startup Genome[/box] During the past decade, much of the discussion about…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Hitesh Tewari, Trinity College Dublin[/box] The internet is unique in that it has no central control,…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Julius Probst, Lund University[/box] More than ten years on from the global financial crisis and economies…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Duncan McLaren, Lancaster University[/box] Planting almost a billion hectares of trees worldwide is the “biggest and…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Chang Zhang, University of Warwick and Nora von Ingersleben-Seip, Technical University of Munich[/box] The United States…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Algirde Pipikaite Project Lead, Governance and Policy, World Economic Forum Martina Cheung President, S&P Global Market…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Silvia Montoya Director, UNESCO Institute for Statistics Manos Antoninis Director, Global Education Monitoring report, UNESCO[/box] The…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Pip Roddis, University of Leeds[/box] Subsidies for onshore wind power were cut by the UK government…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Sean Fleming Senior Writer, Formative Content This article is part of the Annual Meeting of the New…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Deborah Talmi, University of Manchester[/box] Do you remember your first kiss? What about your grandma dying?…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Jian Lu President, LinkedIn China This article is part of the Annual Meeting of the New Champions[/box]…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Becky Alexis-Martin, Manchester Metropolitan University; James Dyke, University of Exeter; Jonathon Turnbull, University of Cambridge, and…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Charlotte Edmond Formative Content This article is part of the Annual Meeting of the New Champions[/box] There…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Frances Balkwill Centre Lead, Centre for Cancer and Inflammation, European Research Council grantee, Queen Mary University…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””] Alex McGoran, Royal Holloway[/box] Ever since the issue was highlighted in shows like “Blue Planet…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Juliana Chan Chief Executive Officer, Wildtype Media Group Benjamin Seet Executive Director, Biomedical Research Council, Agency…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Bill Durodie, University of Bath[/box] On June 28 and 29, the G20 summit will convene for…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Pascale Fung Professor of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology This…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Filippo Grandi United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)[/box] The scale of a humanitarian crisis is…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Patricia Shaw, Aberystwyth University[/box] It’s likely that before too long, robots will be in the home…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Wei Zhu Chairman, Accenture Greater China This article is part of the Annual Meeting of the New…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Rebecca Willis, Lancaster University[/box] As the climate crisis is increasingly felt across the globe, protesters take…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Andy Ho CEO, Philips Greater China This article is part of the Annual Meeting of the New…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]This article is published in collaboration with IMF Blog[/box] People are concerned that the rising power…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Alvin Orbaek White, Swansea University[/box] The big problem with plastics is that though they last for…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Peter Lochbihler Global head of public affairs, Booking.com[/box] The term ‘globalization’ has become increasingly divisive in…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Ralf Seifert, IMD Business School and Richard Markoff,EPFL- École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne – Swiss Federal…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””] Benedict Carandang Vice President, First Circle[/box] Around 1.7 billion people globally are still unbanked –…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Aubrey Hruby Senior advisor to Fortune 500 companies[/box] For more than 30 years, governments and international…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Thomas L Muinzer, University of Dundee [/box] As if there was any doubt, the UN’s latest…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Sonali Paul Charlotte Greenfield Writer, Reuters[/box] Thousands of young activists in Australia and New Zealand launched…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””] Gemma Briggs, The Open University; Helen Wells, Keele University, and Leanne Savigar, Keele University[/box] The…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Elisabeth Andvig Project Specialist, Partnering Against Corruption Initiative, World Economic Forum[/box] Corporations are powerful actors in…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]James Dyke, University of Exeter[/box] The coffee tasted bad. Acrid and with a sweet, sickly smell.…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Ephrat Livni Writer, Quartz[/box] As of June 1, travelers to Tanzania will have to pack very…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]John Dutton Head of Forum Foundations, Member of the Executive Committee, World Economic Forum Silje Ditlefsen…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]SUBMITTED BY UZMA QURESH ON TUE, 05/07/2019[/box] This blog is part of a series that discusses findings…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]SUBMITTED BY SIDDHARTH SHARMA ON TUE, 04/16/2019[/box] This blog is part of a series that discusses findings…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]SUBMITTED BY MUHAMMAD WAHEED ON FRI, 04/19/2019 CO-AUTHORS: ADNAN ASHRAF GHUMMAN[/box] This blog is part of a…