Browsing: General Interest

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Emma Charlton Writer[/box] Could artificial intelligence benefit children with autism? Ned Sahin, a neuroscientist and founder…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””] Andrew Smith, University of Bradford and Jo McBride, Durham University[/box] The UK is experiencing record…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Vesa Laisi President, Danfoss Drives[/box] Today, transport accounts for a fifth of global energy demand and a…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Nsikak John Founder, Kahn Studios[/box] In Africa, the demand for electricity largely exceeds supply. Nigeria’s shortage…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Bob Moritz Global Chairman, PwC [/box] The year 2018 has seen a steady shift in cybersecurity…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Rachael Treharne, University of Sheffield[/box] Over the last few years Arctic scientists have reported a surprising…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””] Terence Huw Edwards, Loughborough University; Christian Soegaard, University of Warwick, and Mustapha Douch, Aston University[/box]…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Ayla Majid Managing Director, Financial Advisory Services, Khalid Majid Rehman[/box] The digital power of China’s Belt…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Raphael Schoentgen Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Hydrogen Advisors [/box] Hydrogen gas was first produced artificially…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Cecilia Skingsley Deputy Governor, Central Bank of Sweden (Sveriges Riksbank) This article is part of the Annual…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””] Laurie Parsons, Royal Holloway[/box] Modern slavery is a prominent term of late. Thus far, efforts…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Suchitra Sebastian Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge This article is part…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””] J. Robert Branston, University of Bath; Anna Gilmore, University of Bath, and Rosemary Hiscock, University…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Hilary Sutcliffe Director, SocietyInside Anne-Marie Allgrove Head, Global Information Technology and Communications Industry, Baker McKenzie This…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Miyeon Oh Director and Senior Fellow of the Asia Security Initiative, Scowcroft Center for Strategy and…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Ellen MacArthur Founder, Ellen MacArthur Foundation[/box] The problem with plastic starts long before it reaches our…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Samir Saran President, Observer Research Foundation (ORF) This article is part of the Annual Meeting of the…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Astrid Kause, University of Leeds[/box] Cape Town’s recent drought brought into sharp relief how people behave…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Jack Rogers, University of Exeter[/box] A mysterious, anonymous entity known as “Satoshi Nakamoto” posted a white…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””] Terence Huw Edwards, Loughborough University; Christian Soegaard, University of Warwick, and Mustapha Douch, Aston University[/box]…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””] Haridimos Tsoukas, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick[/box] Siemens chief, Joe Kaeser has pulled out…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Anne Gallagher President, International Catholic Migration Commission[/box] Integration is the delicate, critical transition of the migrant…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Johnny Wood Writer, Formative Content[/box] In the Italian city of Bologna, people are rewarded for cycling,…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Published in collaboration with the Wilson Center This article is part of the World Economic Forum’s Geostrategy…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Kiran Trehan, University of Birmingham[/box] Female CEOs of large firms are a rare breed. In the…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Eleonore Pauwels Research Fellow on Emerging Cybertechnologies, United Nations University Centre for Policy Research[/box] The multilateral…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Jens Roehrich, University of Bath and Jas Kalra, University of Bath[/box] It’s highly likely that you…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””] Paul Polman Chief Executive Officer, Unilever Myriam Sidibe Senior Fellow, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””] Nader Habibi, Brandeis University[/box] The Oct. 2 disappearance of Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi at…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Ana de Almeida Kumlien, Trinity College Dublin and Paul Coughlan, Trinity College Dublin[/box] Wicked problems are…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””] Koldo Casla, Newcastle University[/box] Record numbers of families now rent privately in Britain. Twice as…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Kristian Teleki Head of the Friends of Ocean Action, Director – Sustainable Ocean Initiative, World Resources…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””] Brian Bolton, IMD Business School[/box] Kudos to California, where the state governor, Jerry Brown, recently…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Børge Brende President, Member of the Managing Board, World Economic Forum Murat Sönmez Managing Director, Head of…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Rohit T. Aggarwala Head of Urban Systems, Sidewalk Labs Katie Hill Advisor, Omidyar Network Robert Muggah…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Johnny Wood Writer, Formative Content[/box] Video gaming has come a long way since the launch of…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””] Chris Dawson, University of Bath and David de Meza, London School of Economics and Political…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””] Sara Solmone, University of East London[/box] Free speech is a key aspect of the internet,…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””] Iosif Kovras, City, University of London[/box] It has been ten years since the global recession…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Leena Nair Chief Human Resources Officer, Unilever [/box] I am likely stating the obvious but it…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Terri Toyota Deputy Head of Centre for Global Public Goods, Member of the Executive Committee, World…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Michael de Lagarde Chief Executive Officer, Delair-Tech This article is part of the Sustainable Development Impact Summit[/box]…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””] Miguel Antonio Lim, University of Manchester[/box] University rankings can be highly influential. They can help…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Florian Reber Strategy Lead, South Pole[/box] If we are to solve our global climate and development…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Saloni Kapur, Lancaster University[/box] Pakistan’s prime minister Imran Khan called in September for a meeting between…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Celine Herweijer Partner, PwC This article is part of the Sustainable Development Impact Summit[/box] The signing of…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””] Stephany Griffith-Jones, Columbia University[/box] Creating a national investment bank would be key to a major…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Dominic Kailash Nath Waughray Head of Centre for Global Public Goods, Member of the Executive Committee,…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Hans Vestberg Chief Executive Officer, Verizon Communications This article is part of the Sustainable Development Impact Summit[/box]…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””] Caroline Nye, University of Exeter[/box] British farms have been struggling to find enough seasonal workers…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Ziyang Fan Head of Digital Trade, World Economic Forum LLC Joel Backaler Managing Director, Frontier Strategy…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Nafis Alam, University of Reading[/box] Wall Street giant Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy on September 15,…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Igor Perisic Chief Data Officer, LinkedIn Corporation, US This article is part of the Annual Meeting of…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Saadia Zahidi Managing Director, Head of Social and Economic Agendas, World Economic Forum This article is…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]So-Young Kang Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Gnowbe This article is part of the World Economic Forum…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””] Ceri Parker Commissioning Editor, Agenda, World Economic Forum This article is part of the World Economic…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Manoj Dora, Brunel University London[/box] Extreme hot and cold weather in the UK will have driven…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Robert Muggah Co-founder, Igarape Institute and SecDev Group Parag Khanna Senior Research Fellow, Lee Kuan Yew…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Howard Yu, IMD Business School[/box] Memory often plays strange tricks, embellishing past facts while ignoring the…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””] This article is published in collaboration with Project Syndicate Børge BrendePresident, Member of the Managing Board,…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]This article is published in collaboration with VoxEU[/box] Blockchain is all the rage. We are constantly…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Justin Adams Managing Director, Global Lands, The Nature Conservancy[/box] Here are some things we know: that…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Natalie Pierce Project Specialist, Social Engagement, World Economic Forum, [/box] Now more than ever, people under the…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Lindsey Appleyard, Coventry University[/box] Wonga, the poster-boy of the British payday lending industry, has gone into…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]John W Walsh, IMD Business School[/box] Coca-Cola’s £3.9 billion acquisition of Costa Coffee has made quite…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Published in collaboration with the Atlantic Council[/box] This article is part of the World Economic Forum’s Geostrategy platform…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Allen Gallagher, University of Bath and Anna Gilmore, University of Bath[/box] What’s the size of the…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Karen Jackson, University of Westminster and Oleksandr Shepotylo, University of Bradford[/box] If Britain leaves the European…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Published in collaboration with the Valdai Discussion Club [/box] This article is part of the World Economic…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Will Sarni Founder and CEO, Water Foundry Callie Stinson Project Lead, Water Initiative, World Economic Forum[/box]…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Published in collaboration with the Observer Research Foundation [/box] This article is part of the World Economic Forum’s Geostrategy…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Jana Javornik, University of East London[/box] The UK is one of the few countries to require…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Brian Lucey, Trinity College Dublin and Shaen Corbet, Dublin City University[/box] The rollercoaster of cryptocurrency pricing…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Steve Barha CEO, Instant Financial[/box] From San Francisco to South Africa, the issue of fair pay is the subject…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Published in collaboration with the RAND Corporation[/box] This article is part of the World Economic Forum’s Geostrategy platform…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Elizaveta Fouksman, University of Oxford[/box] Want to get rid of poverty, lessen inequality and provide financial…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Emre Tarim, Lancaster University[/box] Global markets are on edge once again, this time thanks to the…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Published in collaboration with the Wilson Center[/box] This article is part of the World Economic Forum’s Geostrategy platform…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Leora Klapper Lead Economist, Development Research Group, World Bank[/box] Nearly 800 million people globally live in…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Joe Myers Formative Content[/box] The United Arab Emirates is the Arab world’s most competitive economy, according…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Isobel Anderson, University of Stirling and Regina Serpa, University of Stirling[/box] As one of the few…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Michael Loughlin, Nottingham Trent University[/box] If you work in an office, the chances are there are…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]This article is published in collaboration with Chatham House[/box] This article is part of the World Economic…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]This article is published in collaboration the International Institute for Strategic Studies[/box] This article is part of…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Juergen Voegele Senior Director, Food and Agriculture Global Practice, World Bank[/box] Technology has revolutionized agriculture at…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””] This article is published in collaboration with Chatham House[/box] This article is part of the World…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Ron Milo Professor, Weizmann Institute of Science [/box] Most of us, including scientists, are blind to…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Christopher Newman, Northumbria University, Newcastle[/box] The Iridium-7 mission has successfully launched from the Vandenberg air force…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Dave Cook, UCL[/box] The phrase “digital nomad” summons the trope of joyful millennials who escape the…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Brought to you in collaboration with the International Institute for Strategic Studies [/box] This article is part…