Saadia Zahidi
Head, Centre for the New Economy and Society;
Member of the Managing Board

Thierry Geiger
Head, Research and Regional Impact

Robert Crotti
Practice Lead – Economist

We are extremely grateful to our colleagues in the Centre for the New Economy and Society for their help and support, in particular to Elselot Hasselaar, Genesis El Hussain, Till Alexander Leopold and Vesselina Ratcheva.

We gratefully acknowledge the outstanding support of LinkedIn’s research team, including Guy Berger, Kristin Lena Keveloh, Rachel Bowley, Sein O Muineachain and Jacqueline Barrett.

We are immensely grateful to Professor Ricardo Hausmann, Director of the Centre for International Development (CID) and Professor of the Practice of Economic Development at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, and Professor Laura D’Andrea Tyson, Director of the Institute for Business and Social Impact at the University of California, Berkley’s Haas School of Business, for their longstanding guidance and support.

A special thank you to Michael Fisher for his excellent copyediting work, Neil Weinberg for his superb graphic design and layout and Rob Gale—Design Resources Ltd. We greatly appreciate, too, the outstanding work of design firms Accurat, which created the report’s Country Profiles and online Data Explorer, and Graphéine, which created the cover.

Online report by Design Resources Ltd

The World Economic Forum would like to thank the Partners of the System Initiative on Shaping the Future of Education, Gender and Work for their guidance and support to the System Initiative and this report.

A.T. KearneyAARPAccentureAdecco GroupAfrican Rainbow MineralsAlghanim IndustriesAlixPartnersAmazon Web ServicesAT&T Inc.Bahrain Economic Development BoardBank of AmericaBarclaysBill and Melinda Gates FoundationBloombergBooking.comBoston Consulting Group (BCG)Burda MediaCentene CorporationCentricaDassault Systèmes SEDell TechnologiesDentsu Aegis NetworkDogan BroadcastingEYGEMS EducationGenpact InternationalGlaxoSmithKline Plc (GSK)GoogleGuardian Life InsuranceHCL TechnologiesHealth Care Service Corporation (HCSC)Heidrick & StrugglesHewlett Packard EnterpriseHome InsteadHP Inc.HSBC GroupIkea GroupInfosysJD.comJLLLego FoundationLinkedIn CorporationLRN CorporationManpowerGroupMercer (MMC)Microsoft CorporationNestléNokia CorporationNYSEOmnicom GroupOoredooPayPalPhosAgroPrince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz (MiSK) FoundationProcter and GamblePublicis GroupPwCQI GroupRecruit HoldingsRenault Nissan AllianceRoyal DSMSalesforceSAPSaudi AramcoSeverGroupTata CommunicationsTata Consultancy ServicesThe Rockefeller FoundationTurkcell Iletisim Hizmetleri ASUBSUnileverVMwareWillis Towers WatsonWorkdayWPP

In addition to our Partners, the leadership of the System Initiative on Shaping the Future of Education, Gender and Work includes leading representatives of the following organizations: Council of Women World Leaders; Endeavor; Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley; International Labour Organization (ILO); JA Worldwide; Ministry of Employment, Workforce Development and Labour of the Government of Canada; Department for Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation of the Presidency of South Africa; MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy; Office of the Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation; The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania; United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO); and United Way Worldwide.

To learn more about the System Initiative, please refer to the System Initiative website: The World Economic Forum would like to thank the Partners of the System Initiative on Shaping the Future of Education, Gender and Work for their guidance and support to the System Initiative and this report.

A.T. Kearney

AARP

Accenture

Adecco Group

African Rainbow Minerals

Alghanim Industries

AlixPartners

Amazon Web Services

AT&T Inc.

Bahrain Economic Development Board

Bank of America

Barclays

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Bloomberg

Booking.com

Boston Consulting Group (BCG)

Burda Media

Centene Corporation

Centrica

Dassault Systèmes SE

Dell Technologies

Dentsu Aegis Network

Dogan Broadcasting

EY

GEMS Education

Genpact International

GlaxoSmithKline Plc (GSK)

Google

Guardian Life Insurance

HCL Technologies

Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC)

Heidrick & Struggles

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Home Instead

HP Inc.

HSBC Group

Ikea Group

Infosys

JD.com

JLL

Lego Foundation

LinkedIn Corporation

LRN Corporation

ManpowerGroup

Mercer (MMC)

Microsoft Corporation

Nestlé

Nokia Corporation

NYSE

Omnicom Group

Ooredoo

PayPal

PhosAgro

Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz (MiSK) Foundation

Procter and Gamble

Publicis Group

PwC

QI Group

Recruit Holdings

Renault Nissan Alliance

Royal DSM

Salesforce

SAP

Saudi Aramco

SeverGroup

Tata Communications

Tata Consultancy Services

The Rockefeller Foundation

Turkcell Iletisim Hizmetleri AS

UBS

Unilever

VMware

Willis Towers Watson

Workday

WPP

In addition to our Partners, the leadership of the System Initiative on Shaping the Future of Education, Gender and Work includes leading representatives of the following organizations: Council of Women World Leaders; Endeavor; Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley; International Labour Organization (ILO); JA Worldwide; Ministry of Employment, Workforce Development and Labour of the Government of Canada; Department for Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation of the Presidency of South Africa; MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy; Office of the Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation; The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania; United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO); and United Way Worldwide.

To learn more about the Centre, please refer to the Centre website: https://www.weforum.org/platforms/centre-for-the-new-economy-and-society.