World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2018

17th January 2018 - 2290 days ago

The 48th World Economic Forum Annual Meeting is taking place this week in Davos. This year’s programme, initiatives and projects of the meeting are focused on Creating a Shared Future in a Fractured World. The programme’s depth and breadth, along with the crème de la crème of today’s top minds, make it a true summit of summits. We highlight just a few of them below:

Professor Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize Winner for Economics will be in the following sessions:
23^rd – Towards Better Capitalism at 16:00
25^th – Can Global Tax Avoidance be Stopped? at 14:00

Professor Yuval Noah Harari, historian, philosopher and best-selling author will be in the following sessions:
24^th - Putting Jobs Out of Work at 10:00 and Will the Future be Human? at 14:00

Erik Brynjolfsson, a leading authority on the economics of IT, will be in the following sessions:
24^th - How Can We Fix our Productivity Crisis? at 13:30
25^th - Agile Governance in the 4th Industrial Revolution at 17:00

Christiana Figueres, former Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, will be in the following sessions:
25^th – Climate’s Two Degrees of Separation at 17:30
26^th – The Power of Faith at 14:00

Lynda Gratton is a strategic influential thinker and a Professor of Management Practice at LBS. She will be in the following session:
26^th – Secrets to a Long and Happy Life at 11:30