Global Risks Report: the big issues facing leaders at Davos 2024

The UNHCR, cares for 114 million refugees and displaced people worldwide. Filippo Grandi, the head of the United Nations refugee agency, says that number could double in a decade if the world cannot find ways to stop war.

Mentioned in this episode:

Refugee Employment Alliance: https://www.weforum.org/projects/the-refugee-employment-and-employability-initiative/

Read more: From fleeing war to finding work: companies aim to help refugees find jobs

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The 90-year-old using sports to change the lives of refugees

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Ingka Group's Jesper Brodin: The talent crisis you’re not talking enough about

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If 2023 was the year we all got familiar with generative AI, is 2024 the year when governments will act on the governance of this powerful technology?

At Davos 2024 we spoke to these experts, from the industry and civil society:

Alexandra Reeve Givens, CEO, Center for Democracy & Technology

Aidan Gomez, Co-founder and CEO of Cohere

Anna Makanju, Vice President of Global Affairs, OpenAI

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World Economic Forum's AI Governance Alliance: wef.ch/AIGA

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Technology is revolutionizing global commerce and investment, and digitalizing the trade ecosystem holds the potential to increase trade by nearly $9 trillion by 2026 within the G7 alone.

On the eve of the World Trade Organisation's 13th Ministerial Conference, MC13 (26-29 February, 2024) in Abu Dhabi, we speak to the event's host, UAE Minister of State for Trade Thani Ahmed Al Zeyoudi about MC13 and the TradeTech initiative that the UAE is pursuing with the World Economic Forum.

We also hear from WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on her hopes for MC13, and from Vincent Clerc, Chief Executive Officer, A.P. Møller-Maersk, with his views on trade tech.

Read more about the TradeTech initiative: https://www.tradetechglobal.org/home

and the TradeTech Forum, 27 February, 2024: https://www.tradetechglobal.org/tradetechforum24

Read Thani Ahmed Al Zeyoudi's Agenda blog: TradeTech could be the future of international trade – here’s why

The WTO's 13th Ministerial Conference, 26-29 February, 2024: MC13

Watch this session from Davos 2024: TradeTech's Trillion-Dollar Promise

Watch Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Thani Ahmed Al Zeyoudi at this Davos Press Conference: Transformation of Global Trade

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In an episode recorded before the escalation of conflict in the Middle East, we hear from two private-sector companies involved in the distribution of food, about how they manage to operate in a war zone like Yemen, which has been in a state of civil war since 2015.

Guests:

Mohamed Nabil Hayel Saeed, Senior Strategic Advisor, HSA

Niels Hougaard, Managing Director, Tetra Pak Arabia

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What do social media content creators make of Davos?

We speak to three YouTubers - with a collective audience in the millions - who were given full access to the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting 2024 to ask who they met and what stories they would be telling.

Featuring:
Jacob Beautemps, @BreakingLab
Adanna Steinacker, @houseofadanna
Gohar Khan, @goharsguide

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The World Economic Forum just held its Annual Meeting - but what impact will it have on the world beyond Davos?

The people who lead the Forum's work throughout the year tackling the world's most important issues pick the highlights of the week that show how Davos 2024 will make a positive impact.

And we hear clips from some of the most impactful discussions from the Congress Centre.

Davos 2024 sessions featured in this episode:

Opening Concert

Technology in a Turbulent World

Climate and Nature: A Systemic Response Needed

When Climate Impacts Your Health

Thinking through Augmentation

The World in Numbers: Gender Parity

The Right Stuff – A New Relationship with Materials

Transforming Energy Demand

2024 Social Innovation Awards

Special Address by Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine

Earth's Wisdom Keepers

Forum reports and initiatives mentioned in the episode:

AI Governance Alliance

Edison Alliance - Impact Report

Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution - Network -

The Global Alliance for Women's Health

Future of Jobs Report

Longevity Economy Principles

How Can Cyber Defenders Win?

No Recovery without Trade and Investment.

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Radio Davos

Global Risks Report: the big issues facing leaders at Davos 2024

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Davos 2024: A conversation with Satya Nadella

Agenda Dialogues

Davos 2024: Technology in a Turbulent World

Davos 2024: Climate and Nature: A Systemic Response Needed

Davos 2024: Addressing the North-South Schism

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What's Dwight from The Office doing in the metaverse? Actor Rainn Wilson joins us, in avatar form, to check out a virtual world created by the World Economic Forum that aims to raise awareness of the impact of climate change on the Arctic and the rest of the world.

We also hear from Gail Whiteman, Professor of Sustainability at the University of Exeter Business School, and Executive Director of Arctic Basecamp on her hopes for action to stop the Earth reaching disastrous tipping points.

And Rebecca Ivey, head of the Global Collaboration Village, tells us how the metaverse can bring people together in a unique way.

The environments shown in images and environmental sounds heard in this episode in the Global Collaboration Village's Climate Tipping Points Hub were developed in partnership with Accenture and Microsoft. The Global Collaboration Village is a World Economic Forum Initiative in Partnership with Accenture and Microsoft

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For a longer interview with Rainn Wilson and Gail Whiteman, listen to our sister podcast, Meet the Leader:

https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/meet-the-leader/episodes/arctic-basecamp-rainn-wilson-gail-whiteman/

Metaverse:

What 20 years of Second Life can teach us about the future of the metaverse

Not just for gamers: how the metaverse might impact your life

Davos 2023 Day 3: global collaboration in the metaverse

Davos 2023: Day 1 - Cooperation in a Fragmented World

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As leading figures from government, business, academia and civil society head to Davos for the Annual Meeting 2024, what are the big global challenges they will be discussing?

The World Economic Forum's Global Risks Report sets out the biggest issues over the short and medium terms, based on a survey of more than 1,400 global risks experts, policy-makers and industry leaders.

This year, the impact of artificial intelligence is felt throughout the report, with rising concern about disinformation and cyberinsecurity.

Gayle Markovitz hears from two of the people who put the report together, Carolina Klint, Managing Director at Marsh McLennan, and Peter Giger, Group Chief Risk Officer at Zurich Insurance.

Links:

Read the Global Risks Report 2024: https://www.weforum.org/publications/global-risks-report-2024/

Follow all the action from the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting 2024 in Davos at wef.ch/wef24 and across social media using the hashtag #WEF24.

Forum Agenda blogs:

Global Risk Report 2024: The risks are growing — but so is our capacity to respond

How to build business resilience in an era of risk turbulence

Previous episodes on the Global Risks Report:

Welcome to the age of the polycrisis: the Global Risks Report 2023

Instability, inflation and the 'polycrisis' - the Global Risks Report half a year on

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2023 was the year we all got to know AI - so where will it take us in 2024?

What are semiconductors, and why are they vital to the global economy?

Disease X - how the world can stop the next pandemic

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Photo by Cristofer Maximilian on Unsplash.

Radio Davos is a podcast that is as wide-ranging and thought-provoking as the work of the World Economic Forum itself. Rather than being restricted to any one topic, each week it focuses on a particular issue of global importance, such as macro-economics, the environment, technology, health, social inequalities and much more - always seeking solutions to the big problems

On this episode we listen back to a selection of episodes from 2023.

Episodes featured:

Davos 2023 Day 5: Inflation, AI, and women of influence

Welcome to the age of the polycrisis: the Global Risks Report 2023

The rise of AI and the green transition will transform the way we work: Future of Jobs Report 2023

AI: Why everyone's talking about the promise and risks of this 'powerful wild beast'

Beyond AI: the top-10 tech of 2023 set to change our lives

Disease X - how the world can stop the next pandemic

Below the Belt: the movie that lifts the taboo on endometriosis

Quality over quantity: why the time has come for 'value based health care'

"Not just sticks of carbon" - how growing trees for the climate must also benefit biodiversity

Read more:

The World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting 2024:

https://www.weforum.org/events/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2024/

Global Risks Report 2023: https://www.weforum.org/publications/global-risks-report-2023/

The Future of Jobs Report 2023: https://www.weforum.org/publications/the-future-of-jobs-report-2023/

AI Governance Alliance: https://initiatives.weforum.org/ai-governance-alliance/home

Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2023: https://www.weforum.org/publications/top-10-emerging-technologies-of-2023/

Global Gender Gap Report 2023: https://www.weforum.org/publications/global-gender-gap-report-2023/

related podcast episode:

How COVID and cost of living hit progress on equality: the Global Gender Gap Report 2023

https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/gender-gap-report-2023/

Global Coalition for Value in Healthcare https://initiatives.weforum.org/global-coalition-for-value-in-healthcare/home

Centre for Nature and Climate https://centres.weforum.org/centre-nature-and-climate/home

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