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Davos Digest 2018: Day One
January 24, 2018
Good morning! Day one of Davos 2018 is a wrap. Now onto the news that made headlines… The event kicked off with a strong international call-to-action from Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who set the tone for the Forum, warning of the threat of anti-globalisation and highlighting the massive impact that technology is having on the world. The power statements continued, with Peter Maurer of the Red Cross exposing the true reality of the humanitarian...
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Davos Digest 2018: WEF Begins
January 23, 2018
The World Economic Forum in Davos begins again today. That time of the year when the world’s most influential, powerful and wealthy individuals descend on a small ski resort in Switzerland to chat, deliberate about the future of the planet, and do all they can to avoid actually skiing. Speaking of which, the first order of business this year? Clearing the heaviest snowfall in 18 years, which has disrupted train and helicopter access to the...
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Davos Digest #5
January 20, 2017
The FleishmanHillard Davos team is about to sign off for the weekend. But before we do, we’ll take a look back at the themes and outcomes from this #WEF17, as well as the day’s highlights. Wrapping up our Davos insights from the week is our very own Head of Media, and in-house Malcolm Tucker, Peter Meikle (also FH Head of News). Celebrity chefs, communists and a fast-changing world Of all the people at Davos, it...
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Davos Digest #4
January 20, 2017
Day three and the finishing line can just about be seen in the distance. The day’s big news was made by Theresa May who, coming hot off the heels of her recent Brexit Speech in which she shocked many in declaring her willingness to walk away from the single market, followed up with another big key note. This time it was all about one simple message: Britain is open for business. AI and automation returned...
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Davos Digest #3
January 19, 2017
Day two of Davos, and the spoils belong to meme-legend Joe Biden who covered a broad range of issues in a valedictory key note. In a not-so-subtle rebuke of Donald Trump, he called on the world’s richest 1% to ‘pull their weight’ in the global economy, attacking Russia for testing the fault lines of the current world order and described Nato as a ‘sacred obligation’. A strong start before most had sipped their first cup...
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Davos Digest #2
January 18, 2017
Good morning! And we’re off… Against a backdrop of populist sentiment and anti-elitism, this was never going be just another Davos. And into the fray has stepped the leader of the world’s second largest economy, China. With its first presence in 25 years, all eyes (and ears) were tuned to President Xi Jinping’s steer on the global economy. The big news from Day One at Davos was the clash of this Presidential heavyweight with another...
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Davos Digest #1
January 17, 2017
Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, you might have noticed that the World Economic Forum’s annual Davos meeting kicks off today. And after a tumultuous 2016 the stakes have never been higher. It has been suggested that WEF has become an irrelevance. After all the conventional wisdom at Davos this time last year was that Donald Trump wouldn’t win the Republican presidential nomination, let alone the presidency; that Brexit would be defeated; globalisation was...