davos report
Nicolas Sarkozy, President of France, speaks during the session 'Vision for the G20' at the Annual Meeting 2011 of theWorld Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, 27 January 27 2011
GROWT INCLUSIVE
As the world’s leaders gathered in Davos again in January, some key issues emerged as regards the global landscape over the coming year. The sheer breadth of activity that takes place is the Swiss ski resort is phe- nomenal, and everything from technology to sustain- ability to government got the Davos treatment. The theme of this year’s meeting was “Shared Norms
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for a New Reality”. Over 1,400 business leaders took part, as well as 35 heads of state or government, with 19 of the G20 governments represented at minimum min- isterial level. Also present were the usual mix of central bankers, NGOs, labour leaders, religious leaders and leading academics. Issues dealt with included global risks, developed risk
mitigation strategies and captured related opportunities. TheWorld Economic Forum launched its Risk Response Network at this year’smeeting, “a preparatory, analytical and highly practical framework for the global commu- nity to improve global risk management”. Notwithstanding the terrorist attack on Moscow Domodedovo Airport just two days before, it fell to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to deliver the opening address to an audience of 2,500. Perhaps unsurprisingly the incident coloured his address. “All our efforts to further develop the world economy will be for nothing if we fail to defeat terror- ism, extremism and intolerance, if we fail to eradicate altogether these evils which are the greatest danger to mankind.”
38 Irish Director Spring 2011
The great and the good gathered in Davos in January at the 41stWorld Economic Forum AnnualMeeting. Ann O’Dea looks at some of the themes discussed and conclusions reached
swiss-image.ch/Photo by Sebastian Derungs
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