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The World Economic Forum's channel features four podcast series:
- "A Glimpse into the Future" explores how breakthrough technologies and innovative ideas can help us shape our future.
- "Mapping Global Transformations" is a podcast series featuring leading global experts who are highlighting changes in areas of global interest.
- "On our radar" takes a deep look at the issues bubbling up on the global agenda.
- "What you said" brings you the must-read stories of the week.

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Summer special - sharks and...

07.29.2021

As many in the northern hemisphere head to the beach, we dispel the 'Jaws' myths and find out why sharks are vital to the ocean and the planet. And Dutch musician Don Diablo drops a summer hit that will help ...

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07.29.2021 Summer special - sharks and tunes As many in the northern hemisphere head to the beach, we dispel the 'Jaws' myths and find out why sharks are vital to the ocean and the planet. And Dutch musician Don Diablo drops a summer hit that will help ...
07.27.2021 John Pearson of DHL Express: Keep business – and leadership - simple CEO John Pearson shares the strategies this shipping and logistics company uses to simplify and focus a complex business – methods that have helped it navigate major upheavals including the COVID-19 pandemic. Special training programs - including one featuring a ...
07.23.2021 Olympics, soccer - sport and racism Racist reactions at Euro 2020, possible protests at the Tokyo Games, in this episode we ask whether sport unites us, or reveals the deepest and darkest divisions in society. Interviews: Former NBA basketball player John Amaechi; sociology professor and author ...
07.15.2021 Stop ‘doomscrolling’ and get the rest you need ‘Doomscrolling’ - getting lost in a social media rabbit hole of bad news - became a thing during the pandemic. We talk to a psychologist about what it is and how to beat it, and we learn how to get ...
07.13.2021 Johnson Controls’ George Oliver: Leadership 'rhythms' can drive innovation, opportunity During the COVID-19 crisis, those in critical infrastructure joined doctors and nurses in the pandemic’s front line as temporary hospitals and isolation rooms were needed nearly overnight. This chairman and CEO shared how practice and routine helped the company weather ...
07.09.2021 A big day for big oil On just one day in May, two US oil majors suffered a rebellion by shareholders who demanded action on climate change and a Dutch court ordered Shell to cut its greenhouse gas emissions. But was it a one-off, or are ...
07.06.2021 IKEA's Barbara Martin Coppola on COVID-19, the climate, and IKEA’s tech and data transformation When most of IKEA’s global retail locations closed temporarily during the pandemic, e-commerce became the cornerstone of the business. This near overnight shift was possible, in part, thanks to a digital transition that was already several years underway, one of ...
07.02.2021 Presenting our new podcast: Agenda Dialogues The World Economic Forum has a new podcast - Agenda Dialogues, bringing you the audio from top-level discussions on the world’s biggest issues, hosted by Forum President Borge Brende. In this Radio Davos episode we dip into three upcoming Dialogues ...
06.25.2021 COVID’s long-term impacts on jobs - insights from the Jobs Reset Summit Millions of jobs may never return; gender equality has been set back; and work from home is here to stay: Journalist and podcaster Ashley Milne-Tyte talks us through some of the most striking insights from the Jobs Reset Summit.
06.25.2021 COVID’s impact on displaced people, with UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi There are more forcibly displaced people than ever - 82 million - despite the pandemic making it harder to flee across borders. On World Refugee Day, Radio Davos speaks to UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi, and to Victor ...
06.25.2021 P&G's Loic Tassel on scaling planet-friendly consumer products and habits To meet big climate goals, consumer goods giant Procter & Gamble is redesigning both products and supply chains. In this effort, P&G Europe is pioneering many sustainable products and helping consumers build better habits for the planet. P&G Europe’s president ...
06.11.2021 Morgan Stanley’s Audrey Choi: Leadership isn’t in titles The chief sustainability officer of Morgan Stanley hails from policy and journalism and basically invented her current role. She’ll explain why unique backgrounds are key to tackling sustainability, what drove the firm to dive into sustainable investing during the last ...
06.11.2021 Climate change and the ocean Marine biologist and the head of the world’s largest research and expedition ship, Nina Jensen, joins us to look at highlights from the recent Virtual Ocean Dialogues and Climate Breakthroughs events, with US climate envoy John Kerry.
06.04.2021 Smart Toys - is AI in play helping children prepare for their future? Are your children’s toys smarter than you? Two judges at the inaugural Smart Toy Awards, musician and UC Berkeley Professor Ron Dahl, an expert on childhood development, talk about their hopes and fears over ‘intelligent’ toys.
05.27.2021 Volvo’s Lars Stenqvist: “Partnership is the new leadership’ The Chief Technology Officer of Volvo discusses tech’s role in transport’s decarbonisation. He’ll also explain the role creativity and accountability will play in that transition and how leaders will need to change how they interact with everyone from teams and ...
05.26.2021 Jobs of the future As a preview of the Jobs Reset Summit, Bloomberg TV’s Francine Lacqua joins us to look at the changing world of work and what might be the jobs of the future.
05.21.2021 Ransomware, with US Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas When hackers shut down a pipeline dubbed the US ‘infrastructure jugular’ demanding millions of dollars, the world woke up to the threat of ransomware. Experts from the Centre for Cybersecurity explain what’s at stake and we speak to the head ...
05.14.2021 Boston Consulting Group’s Rich Lesser: “We can go further than we think” The CEO discusses leadership lessons from three decades at the firm, the signals that prompt teams to tackle big challenges - and what’s really needed to make progress on the climate.
05.14.2021 Mental health: the trillion-dollar challenge that we’re still not sure how to beat ‘Corporate wellness’ is big business, but can it really help tackle the huge challenges of mental health? We hear from the Wellcome Trust’s Director of Mental Health, Professor Miranda Wolpert, and health advocate Grace Gatera.
05.06.2021 Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales’ advice to young entrepreneurs: to succeed - 'get comfortable with failure' The co-founder of Wikipedia - the world’s fifth most popular website - had a Q&A with entrepreneurs from the World Economic Forum’s UpLink programme. His key word of advice: don’t be scared to try.
04.29.2021 WorldQuant’s Igor Tulchinsky: “Obstacles are nothing more than information” The CEO of quantitative investment firm WorldQuant talks experimentation, the principles he lives by and why he founded a not-for-profit online university to modernize talent pools and bridge opportunity gaps.
04.28.2021 Leadership - meet ‘Meet the Leader’ If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to lead a huge company, Linda Lacina has the answers. In her podcast, Meet the Leader, she chats with a senior figure - usually a CEO - of a big organisation to find ...
04.20.2021 The global energy transition For 10 years the World Economic Forum has tracked the world’s progress on getting better, cleaner energy for all. We look at the latest findings and ask how we can achieve climate change goals.
04.13.2021 The joy - and fear of - tech: some of the best bits from the Global Technology Governance Summit 2021 Axios Chief Technology Correspondent Ina Fried joins Robin Pomeroy for a look at some of the best moments of GTGS, featuring the CEOs of YouTube, Salesforce, government ministers from France and Singapore and predictions from full-time futurologists.
04.09.2021 Verizon's Hans Vestberg: Focus on what's most important The CEO of Verizon shares why he charts his time, the questions he asks world leaders and why he's dedicated his life to bridging connectivity gaps.
04.01.2021 Global Technology Governance Summit Nikkei journalist Hiroyuki Nishimura joins Robin Pomeroy for a look at the World Economic Forum’s tech summit, hosted by Japan - an event bringing together more than 50 governments and 600 companies to look at the promises and pitfalls of ...
03.30.2021 How COVID deepened gender inequality The World Economic Forum’s gives a worrying indication of the impact that the COVID pandemic has has on gender inequality. Radio Davos hears from Forum Managing Director Saadia Zahidi and LinkedIn head of public policy Sue Duke.
03.22.2021 World Water Day with Matt Damon and Gary White Hollywood star Matt Damon is a leading figure in efforts to get clean water and sanitation to the poorest people in the world. Damon and co-founder of charty Gary White tell us why water is fundamental to tackling global inequality.
03.19.2021 Leaders from IBM, Deloitte and more: Habits they can’t work without To mark the 6-month anniversary of Meet The Leader, this compilation episode collects favourite tips, mindsets and approaches from past episodes as well as insights from World Economic Forum events like the Annual Meeting in Davos.
03.12.2021 UpLink: The Eureka Moment How do you turn that great idea for making the world a better place into reality? We hear from four innovators who are working with the Forum's UpLink platform to tackle the biggest challenges facing the planet.
03.12.2021 Radio Davos As the world starts to move out of lockdown, we are relaunching World Vs Virus under a new name: Radio Davos. As well as the pandemic, we’ll cover all the biggest global issues: climate change, technology, equality, education and the ...
03.04.2021 Signify’s Eric Rondolat: How small steps drive big changes This global lighting company achieved carbon neutrality last fall. Its CEO will share the changes it made - and its lessons learned.
02.18.2021 EY’s Carmine di Sibio: ‘Build a better working world’ The CEO will share how new programs are helping the firm train future leaders in tech and sustainability and even create jobs to tackle neurodiversity.
02.12.2021 How can we vaccinate the world? As rich nations rush to secure millions of doses, how will poorer countries fare? We hear from the head of COVAX, the global initiative to get COVID vaccines out to all. Plus: how can we counter vaccine-scepticism.
02.11.2021 Can the shipping industry clean up its act? Shipping is responsible for a gigaton of C02 emissions a year. We talk to the people on the climate frontline about one of the world's toughest industries to decarbonize.
02.04.2021 Radio Davos - The Davos Agenda Week What do you get if you bring together two dozen heads of state, 56O leaders of the world’s biggest companies, scientists, campaigners and academics from around the world? We listen back on some of the highlights from the Davos Agenda ...
02.04.2021 Carbon capture: ecological sideshow or saviour? Fans of direct air capture see it as a surefire way to suck greenhouse gas emissions from the atmosphere. Critics say it’s an overpriced distraction. We ask the people pioneering the technology for their view
02.04.2021 AB InBev’s Carlos Brito: Solve the right problem The CEO of one of the world’s largest brewing companies explains how tech like blockchain and fintech are helping retailers and smallholder farmers around the world and how such investments are strengthening communities in developing economies more resilient have kept ...
01.28.2021 Radio Davos: Day 5 Iron Man Robert Downey Jr explains why he’s now a green venture capitalist, and what we should say to climate change deniers. Ravi Velloor, associate editor of The Straits Times joins us to look ahead to the action on the ...
01.28.2021 Radio Davos: Day 4 Alyson Shontel of Business Insider joins us to look ahead to Day 4 of the Davos Agenda and we discuss the dangers of a possible ‘cyber pandemic’ with the head of the Forum’s Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Plus ...
01.27.2021 Radio Davos: Day 3 Ryan Heath, Senior Editor at , joins us to look ahead at a day focusing on the environment when John Kerry, US President Joe Biden’s climate envoy, is due to speak. We also interview Mark Carney, the former central banker ...
01.26.2021 Radio Davos Day 2 Gillian Tett of Financial Times joins us to discuss the main themes of the Davos Agenda on Day 2: industry transformation, growth and stakeholder capitalism. And we hear a message from climate campaigner Greta Thunberg.
01.25.2021 Radio Davos Day 1 Rachana Shanbhogue of The Economist helps us look ahead to the first day of the Davos Agenda week where COVID-19 is in focus. And we hear interviews with architect Sir David Adjaye and photographer Sebastião Salgado, winners of this year’s ...
01.22.2021 Coming soon: Radio Davos Radio Davos is reporting daily from the Davos Agenda week - five days of top-level discussions with leaders from business, government, academia and science seeking solutions to the world’s biggest problems. Journalists from around the world talk us through the ...
01.21.2021 Davos Agenda Week Preview: Time to act Polly Courtice, the Founder Director of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) shares why business survival depends on taking action on sustainability, what sometimes holds leaders back and the role of corporate boards in putting planet over profit. This ...
01.15.2021 Have we reached the end of meat? Livestock production accounts for a staggering 15% of total greenhouse gas equivalent emissions per year globally, and in the age of covid, zoonotic diseases are on the agenda as never before. We talk to the entrepreneurs looking to re-engineer the ...
01.07.2021 Can investors save the planet? Big finance gets a lot of bad press - but it might just be our secret weapon in the fight against climate change. In this episode we talk to bankers, insurers and data experts who are pushing the world to ...
01.06.2021 The Carlyle Group’s David Rubenstein: Rise to the occasion David Rubenstein, co-founder and co-executive chairman of The Carlyle Group, explains the role courage plays in making change happen, and what leaders must do to push through the resistance that they face.
01.06.2021 All at sea - the countless ship workers stranded by COVID Seafarers are among the forgotten victims of the pandemic - thousands have been stranded at sea for months as ports around the world refuse to let them land. We hear from two ship’s captains about the human impact.
12.23.2020 The year that COVID built: a look back on 2020 2020 was the year of coronavirus, but also the year of Donald Trump, of Black Lives Matter and of Brexit. CNN correspondent Eleni Giokos joins Robin Pomeroy for a look back on a year that was unforgettable, often for the ...

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