On Day 3 at Davos 2023, we enter the metaverse to experience the Forum’s Global Collaboration Village, hear why inflation may have peaked, but prices haven’t, and speak to astronaut Matthias Maurer. Heba Aly, of the podcast Rethinking Humanitarianism, co-hosts.

We hear from recipients of the Crystal Awards Idris and Sabrina Elba.

The boss of Unilever, a top IMF economist and Germany’s finance minister weigh in on the impact of inflation.

We welcome into the Radio Davos booth astronaut Matthias Maurer.

And we enter the metaverse to take a tour of the Global Collaboration Village.

People in this episode

Heba Aly, host of the podcast Rethinking Humanitarianism

Sabrina Elba, United Nations International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) Goodwill Ambassador

Idris Elba, Entrepreneur, Actor, Musician, UN IFAD Goodwill Ambassador

Fatih Birol, Executive Director, International Energy Agency

Olivier Schwab, Managing Director, World Economic Forum 

Gill Einhorn, Head of Innovation and Transformation, Centre for Nature and Climate at the World Economic Forum

Alan Jope, Chief Executive Officer, Unilever

Gita Gopinath, First Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund

Christian Lindner, Germany’s Federal Minister of Finance

Olena Zelenska, First Lady of Ukraine

Jaci Eisenberg, Head of Content Curation at the Global Collaboration Village

Mark Curtis, co-lead, Accenture Metaverse continuum business group

Elisabeth Papadopoulos, Creative Director, Accenture Metaverse continuum business group

Nadia Botello, Audio Lead, Accenture Metaverse continuum business group

Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum 

Julie Sweet, Chair and Chief Executive Officer, Accenture

Brad Smith, Vice-Chair and President, Microsoft Corp

Sessions mentioned in the episode:

Crystal Awards Ceremony 2023

Stewarding Responsible Capitalism

Leading the Charge through Earth's New Normal

Mastering New Energy Economics

Special Message from Olena Zelenska, First Lady of Ukraine

Stemming the Cost of Living Crisis

Press Conference: Global Collaboration Village

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