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Forward Thinking on the sustainability revolution in textiles and the fashion industry with Edwin Keh
– The leader of a cutting-edge institute talks about innovative new materials that “eat” carbon and may enable cotton... growing without irrigation, as well as the potential for building the world’s shortest supply chain in two 40-foot containers.
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Forward Thinking on people, places, and the revenge of places that don’t matter with Andrés Rodríguez-Pose
– A leading economic geographer talks regional growth and inequality, discontent and populism, innovation, migration, and development... policies and strategies.
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Forward Thinking on war in Ukraine, inflation, and cooperation in a fractured world with Jean Pisani-Ferry
– An eminent European economist discusses the economic challenges arising from the war in Ukraine, the spreading economic turbulence,... and the need to work together to nurture global public goods.
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Human capital at work: The value of experience
– Human capital represents two-thirds of wealth for the average individual—and work experience contributes almost half of... that value.
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Forward Thinking on measuring the value of the digital age with Avinash Collis
– Born in India and now a professor in Texas, Avinash Collis talks about his work on creating a data dashboard that will enable... us to measure the true value of the digital age.
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Forward Thinking on trade, vaccines, and sustainable and inclusive growth with WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
– The World Trade Organization’s first African—and first female—director-general reflects on the impact of the... pandemic on trade, the imperative to ensure that vaccines reach Africa and other emerging economies, and how to ensure that trade is more inclusive in the years ahead.
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Forward Thinking on democratizing technology with Anne-Marie Imafidon
– “Having a computer science degree should not be a prerequisite for being one of the only people in control of what happens... next. It’s about democratizing. It’s about giving folks agency so we can make collective decisions about what happens next rather than it being that technical power race. I don’t know if we can call it race to the—I’m going to call it the bottom, race to the dystopia.”
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Securing Europe’s future beyond energy: Addressing its corporate and technology gap
– European leaders have shown great resolve in their initial response at scale and speed to the war in Ukraine. They will need to... build the same momentum to face the region’s slow-motion corporate and technology crisis. An estimated €2 trillion to €4 trillion of annual value could be at stake—six times the amount needed for the net-zero transition—and with it Europe’s long-term prosperity and strategic autonomy. A program of 11 actions can turn the tide.
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Forward Thinking on the growing role of business in the net-zero transition with Claire O’Neill
– The former British politician who led the United Kingdom’s winning bid to host COP26 is now focused on coordinating an effective... business contribution to the net-zero transition. She sees momentum building. “CEOs left COP saying, ‘We get it. Net zero is the thing we have to do.’”
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Forward Thinking on tech and the unpredictability of prediction with Benedict Evans
– One of the tech world’s sharpest analysts talks about the frontier and how we got here, connecting the metaverse, Web3,... and crypto with everyone from industrialist Henry Ford to writer Voltaire to historian Hugh Trevor-Roper.
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Forward Thinking on sustainable and inclusive growth with Ron O’Hanley
– A leading US financier discusses the route to carbon neutrality, what the pandemic taught us about resiliency, and the true meaning... of stakeholder capitalism.
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