Book Club: Summer 2022 reading to relax and escape
As summer sizzles in the northern hemisphere, you might be looking for a good book to take on holiday, or to help you travel in your imagination.
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.
As summer sizzles in the northern hemisphere, you might be looking for a good book to take on holiday, or to help you travel in your imagination.
Every year, the World Economic Forum publishes research on the position of women in society around the world, and calculates the 'gender gap' - how far opportunities for women - in the wo...
The World Economic Forum's Global Cybersecurity Outlook report indicates that cyberattacks increased 125% globally in 2021, with evidence suggesting a continued uptick through 2022. In th...
The global economy has been having a rocky ride. There was the pandemic, there was the supply chain squeeze coming out of the pandemic, and then Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Many develop...
Podcast episode page: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/agenda-dialogues/episodes/the-four-day-week-necessity-or-luxury
In coming years, humanity will face viruses deadlier and more infectious than COVID. Intensifying climate change will put tens of millions of refugees in flight and require us to reimagin...
After two years of COVID-induced lockdowns around the world, the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting on 23-26 May 2022 was a big, busy affair, and the first in-person event that Radio D...
Can banks and investors shift to climate-friendly business in a way that will have a global impact on slashing greenhouse gases? This panel discussion at Davos 2022 goes into the detail o...
A highpoint of every World Economic Forum Annual Meeting is the official concert which this year was performed by Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax. While the musicians played a Catalan folk tune a...
The International Monetary Fund forecast global growth in 2022 at 4.4%, but these projections are being revised downwards as conflict and the fallout from sanctions ripple across global m...
The metaverse was very visible at the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting in Davos this year, with tech giants Microsoft and Meta both presenting their own demonstrations of what it loo...
The recovery from the COVID-19 crisis has been deeply uneven within and between countries, depending on their access to fiscal resources and vaccines. Food, fuel and resource crises now r...
On Day 4 of Davos 2022, Peter Prengaman, Climate and Environmental News Director at the Associated Press, gives us his impressions of his first Davos. We hear from the IMF’s Gita Gopinath...
Shereen Bhan, Managing Editor of Indian business news channel CNBC-TV18, came to the Radio Davos booth to look ahead to Day 3 when climate change is a major topic.
Enrique Acevedo, News Anchor at CBS News joins us in the Radio Davos booth to look ahead to the highlights of Day 2 at Davos 2022.