Børge Brende is President and CEO of the World Economic Forum. He has served as Norway’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Trade and Industry, and Minister of Climate and the Environment, and he was Deputy Chairman of the Norwegian Conservative Party as well as MP.

Aug 17, 2021 · As growth slows, we must be ready for the next economic crisis. Governments need to tackle excessive debt while growth is good, or they will find themselves unable to provide stimulus when the party is over.

Co-Founder of Sapienship, a multidisciplinary organization advocating for global responsibility whose mission is to clarify the public conversation, support the quest for solutions and focus attention on the most important challenges facing the world today (technological disruption, ecological collapse and the nuclear threat). 2002, PhD ...

The Forum's Founder, Professor Klaus Schwab, currently serves as the Chairman of the Board of Trustees—exceptional individuals who act as guardians of the Forum's mission and values, and oversee its work in promoting true global citizenship.

Dec 9, 2024 · Davos 2025, the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum, takes place from 20-24 January under the theme, Collaboration for the Intelligent Age.

Jan 8, 2025 · About 170 million new jobs will be created this decade, according to the World Economic Forum's Future of Jobs Report 2025. The report indicates the global macro trends driving the shift in the labour market.

Jul 30, 2018 · Our research suggests a simple reason why we sometimes hate the good guy: They make us look bad by comparison. Many of us have heard of people saying: “Stop working so hard, you’re making the rest of us look bad.”

Nov 9, 2016 · This is the first of a three-part series exploring the effects of global capitalism on modern workers by Guy Standing, author of The Precariat. You can read the second installment, a debunking of the cornerstones of free-market capitalism, here.

May 12, 2017 · But being bad isn’t, well, all bad, at least in the world of fictional narrative. It comes with certain advantages, according to Grizzard. “We find that characters who are perceived as villains get a bigger boost from the good actions or apparent altruism than heroes, like the Severus Snape character from the Harry Potter books and films.”

Guy Miller is Zurich Group’s Chief Market Strategist and Head of Macroeconomics and is part of Zurich’s Leadership Team. As Chief Market Strategist, he is responsible for defining the relative merits of equities, sovereign debt and corporate credit across the globe and on currency hedging.