Published January 09,2024
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The World Economic Forum (WEF) is to convene in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 15-19 with the theme of Rebuilding Trust, bringing collectively greater than 2,800 delegates from 120 international locations.
The WEF mentioned in a press release the assembly would drive dialogue, cooperation, and partnerships on world imperatives, together with financial development, local weather and nature motion, power safety, expertise governance, and human improvement.
“We face a fractured world and growing societal divides, leading to pervasive uncertainty and pessimism,” mentioned Klaus Schwab, founder and government chairman of the WEF.
“We have to rebuild trust in our future by moving beyond crisis management, looking at the root causes of the present problems, and building together a more promising future,” Schwab added.
The assembly will tackle the most recent world developments and search to ship modern, sensible options to revitalize and reimagine the cooperation essential for advancing resilience and safety.
Switzerland is the host nation for the assembly, and greater than 300 public figures will take part this yr, together with greater than 60 heads of state and authorities.
Among the members will probably be Antonio Guterres, the UN secretary-general; Kristalina Georgieva, who heads the International Monetary Fund; Ajay S. Banga, president of the World Bank Group; Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the World Trade Organization chief; and Jens Stoltenberg, secretary normal of NATO.
Top political leaders participating embody Li Qiang, China’s premier; French President Emmanuel Macron; Ursula von der Leyen, European Commission president; Javier Milei, the Argentina president; Pedro Sanchez, Spain’s prime minister; Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukraine’s president; Gustavo Francisco Petro Urrego, Columbia’s president; Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis; Mohammed Shyaa Al Sudani, Iraq’s prime minister and others.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and the nation’s nationwide safety Advisor Jake Sullivan may even attend the discussion board.
An estimated 1,600 business leaders, together with over 800 of the world’s high CEOs, are additionally anticipated to take part within the discussion board.
Source: www.anews.com.tr