Espen Barth Eide, Managing Director and Member of the Managing Board, World Economic Forum, says that today's challenges, which are global in scope, heavily interlinked in nature and critical in urgency, will only be addressed through greater understanding and stronger collaboration by all stakeholders.
Espen was speaking ahead of the World Economic Forum Summit on the Global Agenda, the world’s biggest brainstorming meeting, that brought together more than 1,000 experts from 80 countries on the most pressing global challenges that opened on Sunday (9th November) in Dubai.
Income inequality and jobless growth are two of the most significant challenges facing the world today, says a World Economic Forum report.
The 7th Summit on the Global Agenda is organized by the World Economic Forum in collaboration with the Government of the United Arab Emirates and Government of Dubai.
For shaping high-impact collaborative cross-council ideas, the Forum recognized the Global Agenda Council on Emerging Multinationals and the Global Agenda Council on Youth Unemployment, which together developed a landmark methodology of mentorship and apprenticeship to help youth acquire the hard and soft skills that companies need.
The other winners in this category were the Global Agenda Council on Africa and the Global Agenda Council on New Models of Travel and Tourism, which collaborated to develop initiatives that underscored the importance of travel and tourism to job creation and growth, and demonstrated the clear link between them.
The World Economic Forum is an international institution committed to improving the state of the world through public-private cooperation in the spirit of global citizenship. It engages with business, political, academic and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas.
Incorporated as a not-for-profit foundation in 1971 and headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, the Forum is independent, impartial and not tied to any interests. It cooperates closely with all leading international organizations.
