While the world's media attention right now is on the Australian bushfires and Indonesian floods, Venice, a city very close to my heart, suffered another major flood at the end of 2019. A...
The 'move fast and break things' ethos that epitomized Silicon Valley business culture for much of the 21st century's first decade has fundamentally changed the global economy. For eviden...
Partnerships between governments, the private sector, multilateral institutions and civil society will be essential to ensure we meet the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and the Pa...
We are living in a period of unparalleled technological, geopolitical and socio-economic change. For the financial services industry, this environment creates a tremendous opportunity to ...
Just when you thought modern life couldn’t get any crazier, a video emerged during the run-up to the recent UK election, in which the Prime Minister Boris Johnson appeared to endorse his ...
⦁ Companies today are judged on the positive contribution they make to society.
Global growth weakened considerably in 2019 as trade wars and weakening growth in China negatively impacted growth. In many parts of the world, the manufacturing sectors were either in re...
We are living in unprecedented times: geopolitical tensions are increasingly acute; the global political, economic and financial system that has worked for more than a century is being te...
Will technology kill jobs and exacerbate inequality, or usher in a utopia of more meaningful work and healthier societies? What will the future of work be like in 10 years from now?
At the outset of 2020, the world’s two largest economies are not getting along. In July 2018, the current US administration imposed tariffs on $34 billion of goods imported from China.
We face a world where record numbers of people need humanitarian assistance, climate change is hitting the poorest hardest, and combatants routinely flout humanitarian principles. The out...
Sustainability has become a hot topic for governments, investors, employees and consumers. It is not surprising then that many people are wondering how the issue of sustainability influen...
The past year has seen significant developments that indicate a systemic shift towards purposeful business and responsible capitalism, challenging well-established assumptions about share...
To quote the US Judge, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.: “Taxes are what we pay for civilized society”. While one can argue about the optimal size of the state, it is clear that all governments ...
The days when businesses could rest on their financial laurels alone are over. Today, being a good corporate citizen is as important as a solid balance sheet - if not more so.
