Getting the inside view from the WEF top brass, Klaus Schwab included
Had the ideal start to Davos 2015 yesterday among a group of media leaders lunching with the WEF founder and chairman Klaus Schwab and his lieutenants
Had the ideal start to Davos 2015 yesterday among a group of media leaders lunching with the WEF founder and chairman Klaus Schwab and his lieutenants
Towards the end of the conference, a high-powered Plenary focused on about poverty with the UK’s Gordon Brown and President Benjamin Mkapa from Tanzania among those on stage.
Dell followed the technological curve from a young age; buying his first calculator at age 7, pulling apart his first computer at fifteen, and assembling and selling upgrade kits for PCs in his spare time at University.
When political leaders run out of answers, they turn to the WEF in numbers, hoping for solutions. Their record attendance at Davos 2015 is not a good sign.
For me, losing my Davos virginity was a blur. It was the year after Nelson Mandela, FW de Klerk and Mangosuthu Buthelezi had shared the stage together and the WEF reasoned it was a good idea to bring over some South African media next time.
In this commentary from Davos, Switzerland, Alec Hogg argues that it was very wrong for Eskom’s top three to pull out of the World Economic Forum.
Getting into the WEF annual meeting in Davos is an achievement in itself. Participation is by invitation only with strict quotas for each of the groups represented.
I’ve witnessed strange things in 35 years as a financial journalist. But never before witnessed a 20% overnight surge in a currency, while on the ground.
Leaders of the world’s business, governments, and civil society will gather in Davos, Switzerland from January 21st for the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum.
Having arrived ahead of the World Economic Forum, Alec Hogg provides guidance on the issues that are likely to dominate discussion over the next few days