Robin Pomeroy is in charge of the World Economic Forum's audio content and hosts the Forum's weekly flagship podcast Radio Davos. Before joining the Forum, Robin spent more than two decades at the global news agency Reuters, as a correspondent in Brussels, Rome and Tehran, and as a senior desk editor in London. He helped found the London-based media literacy charity The Charlotte Project, and taught journalism to Masters students at City, University of London. Robin is a fellow of the Knight Wallace Fellowship of journalists.
At 5.30 in the morning of 7 May, an employee of a company called Colonial Pipeline found a ransom note from hackers on a work computer. By the end of the day, the pipeline that provides r...
Even before the pandemic, anxiety and depression were estimated to cost the global economy over $1 trillion every year in lost productivity.
Every month, more than 6 billion people visit Wikipedia, making it the fifth most used website in the world.
Greenhouse gas emission are already back from that COVID-induced dip when lockdowns brought much industrial activity and transport to a halt.
Technology is advancing faster than most of us can comprehend, and it will have a big impact on our lives and livelihoods - presenting huge opportunities and potentially just as many risks.
We’re living through a technological revolution where the boundaries between the physical and virtual are blurring, transforming the way we work, meet, consume, educate and entertain. Is ...
After more than a year living with the COVID pandemic, the data is starting to roll in, showing what impact it's had on societies around the world.
Growing up in the affluent US, Matt Damon was able to dream big - he and his schoolmate Ben Affleck headed to New York to become actors.
A year ago, the World Economic Forum launched its first regular podcast, World Vs Virus, which looked at the impacts of the pandemic on health, the economy, jobs, education, trade, and so...
Former Bank of England Governor Mark Carney is now Finance Adviser to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson in the run-up to the COP 26 climate summit in November, as well as UN Special Envoy f...
Radio Davos is a daily show that brings you a flavour of what to expect from each day of the Davos Agenda.
While many lives were severely disrupted by the emergence of COVID-19, spare a thought for the thousands of people working on ships.
What will you remember about 2020?
In the future, genetic sequencing will speed up the development of vital new drugs; they'll be tested on 'virtual' patients and the 'microneedle' used to administer them means you won't e...
What is spreading across the globe, can be passed on unwittingly from one person to countless others, is potentially deadly, yet can be stopped if everyone takes the right steps?
