Mirek Dušek is Managing Director at the World Economic Forum, responsible for global programming. He oversees the strategy and organization of all large-scale World Economic Forum events, including the Annual Meeting in Davos. Previously, he worked at the US Embassies in Baghdad and in Prague.
Mirek Dušek holds a MA in International Studies and a BA in Political Sciences and speaks Arabic fluently.
The Middle East is still trying to chart its own path in the context of global geopolitical shifts, which are further compounded by the disruptive impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Indeed,...
The European Union is facing an important test. A few months after the launch of the Fit for 55 package – a set of policies to achieve a 55% reduction in carbon emissions by 2030 – a gas ...
In recent times, political, economic and social systems have been faced with an increasingly complex set of global challenges. Factors including the pandemic, climate change, political in...
The Covid-19 pandemic has been a disruptor like no other and its economic and social consequences are expected to outlast the health emergency.
The COVID-19 pandemic has uncovered strengths and resilience in European societies and economies in the response to a public health crisis that continues to impact global stability. The f...
As the devastating effects of the Covid-19 pandemic continue to play out globally, the major long-term threat facing humanity – climate change – has not vanished.
The urgency of a green transition has never been so obvious. 2020 marks a year where the Arctic is melting faster than most climate models predicted, and WWF’s recent Living Planet Report...
Covid-19 does not recognize borders. Contagion has been evident not only in the transmission of the virus across countries but in the global economic propagation of this health shock on p...
As the world is transformed by seismic developments around technology, climate and the need for more inclusive economic and social systems, there is a real risk that many in the Middle Ea...
For thousands of years, the Dead Sea has attracted visitors from far and wide, drawn by legends of its power to heal and rejuvenate. On 6-7 April, 1,000 key leaders from government, busin...
The world has deeply changed over the past decade. The global economy has been through one of the most turbulent times in recent history with a financial meltdown in key advanced economie...
On 9 December 2017 Iraq’s prime minister, Haider al-Abadi, formally declared victory in the country’s protracted war on ISIS. Just a few months before, in September, Lebanon had cleared i...
Six months ago, the World Economic Forum’s Middle East North Africa team sat down to answer the following question: “Despite challenging geopolitics, Arab start-ups are finding ways to su...
在2017年世界经济论坛年会上，中国国家主席习近平宣布中国将举办一带一路峰会，以期促进国际合作。大多数中东和北非国家将受邀出席。
At this year's World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Chinese President Xi Jinping declared his intention to host a Belt and Road Summit for international cooperation, to which mos...
