The Davos Challenge: Walk for Education asked participants at the 45th Annual Meeting in Davos-Klosters to walk as many steps at the meeting as some children have to walk to get to school in rural South Africa.
In 2007, this hour-long debate between five of the world’s pre-eminent economists would spark the elevation of NYU Professor Nouriel Roubini to guru status
Now 64, she is probably best known as co-founder and Editor in Chief of The Huffington Post, the Pulitzer Prize-winning blog website she launched in 2005, that has been described as “one of the most popular English language news website son the planet”
Careers like the one Jamie Dimon has carved out for himself would be hard to imagine if it wasn’t all true.
Alec Hogg had an inspirational chat with multi-talented, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka former Deputy President of SA and all-round global hero pioneering change.
A touching initiative that has got the world’s most elite Davos delegates navigating the Alpine village on foot this year. Ruth-Anne Renaud explains the Davos Challenge that is looking to raise 2,500 bicycles for rural South African school children who can walk up to six kilometres a day to get to school.
“Through this recognition, Switzerland has shown not only its full support for the World Economic Forum’s mission, but also its commitment to further enhance the role of Switzerland.”
Davos’s positioning as a spa town owes much to German born Alexander Spengler. Sentenced to death in his homeland because of his participation in the 1848 Revolution of Baden, Spengler was forced to fee to Switzerland.
The dwindling energy at the World Economic Forum is tangible, from the grumpy faces of security staff to participants, yet Alec seems to be on form, and still has his finger firmly on the pulse.
Jack Ma, Founder of e-commerce giant Alibaba Group and China’s richest man, told participants at the 45th World Economic Forum Annual Meeting that his vision is to serve 2 billion consumers and to help 10 million small businesses outside China sell their products through the internet.