The United States is the country with the world’s largest diplomatic network, but it currently has 38 vacant ambassadorships positions – 23% of the total – indicating that President Trump...
One of the most unique aspects of blockchain is its high number of evangelists – people who believe blockchain can solve everything from global financial inequality, to the provision of I...
How do we make sense of leadership when the world's leading democracy, the United States, elects Presidents with leadership styles as contrasting as Barack Obama and Donald Trump?
Something doesn’t quite add up in the world of venture capital (VC). Most start-ups are founded by millennials, 76% of whom believe that businesses have the power to make a difference in ...
I am fortunate enough to live in one of the greenest cities on the planet: Copenhagen. The 2014 European Green Capital is a city where four out of 10 people commute by bike. It has more t...
Latin America's largest city, São Paulo, was once among the region's most violent. But the bustling metropolis of over 12 million Paulistanos has experienced a remarkable decline in homic...
On March 4, Italians unequivocally sought to disrupt a political system that they perceive as self-serving and out-of-touch with their daily realities.
The ocean provides us with everything we need: food, oxygen, inspiration and jobs. It also regulates the climate. Despite its vital importance, we are currently treating our ocean like an...
Most of the discussions on solutions to climate change are too centred on renewable energy and electric vehicles. That is why Paul Hawken in his recent book Drawdown: The Most Comprehensi...
Last year when I was in Davos, I received a text from my 11-year-old saying “I’m bi.” The next text said, “Never mind, I’m too young to know.” A month later, my child made it very clear t...
It’s a classic immigrant story: a young enterprising person leaves home in search of opportunity. She moves to a different country, finds a job, works hard and moves up the career ladder ...
The World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2018 brought together over 3,000 leaders from business, government, international organizations, civil society, academia, media and the arts. 195 o...
Many sessions at Davos this year have observed the same frightening fact: the past several years have seen a surge in state and non-state violence, threatening people’s lives and contribu...
It is easy to dismiss Davos as nothing more than a talkfest among greedy CEOs, cheerful philanthropists and photogenic celebrity activists. Yet this narrative – which is annually recited ...
By now, we all know that global warming is slowly boiling our planet. We also understand that it is caused by a long list of human activities, with our insatiable hunger for energy right ...
