WEF: Themes - Economy-Competitiveness

WEF: Themes - Human Resources

14.09.10 How to Become a Global Player
14.09.10 Creating Intrapreneurs
13.09.10 Asia's Workforce: The Female Factor
13.09.10 Developing Natural Resources to Build Human Resources
17.05.10 Emerging Market Multinationals: Building the New Fortune 500
11.05.10 Competition and Regulation: Rethinking the European Response
10.05.10 Europe: A World Leader in Renewable Technology?
07.05.10 India-Africa Partnership: Gateway for Innovation Transfer and Investment
06.05.10 Higher Education for Africa
28.01.10 New Corporate Governance in the Post-Crisis World
28.01.10 Rethinking Leadership Development
27.01.10 Management Innovations from the Fringe
13.11.09 A Roadmap for India's Next Generation of Growth
10.11.09 How Can India Become a Global Manufacturing Hub?
09.11.09 Creating World-Class Education in India
09.11.09 India's Next Aspiration
08.11.09 Economic Update: India's Outlook
16.09.09 IdeasLab with Social Entrepreneurs
11.09.09 Redesigning Corporate Governance
10.06.09 Africa Brainstorming: Changes, Challenges and Opportunities
15.05.09 Global Redesign Series: The Middle East G20 Imperative
30.01.09 Advice to the US President on Competitiveness
29.01.09 Live Long and Prosper
18.11.08 Reforming India's Healthcare System
18.11.08 A Skills Shortage after the Brain Drain?
18.11.08 From Imitator to Innovator: Globalization of Healthcare and Life Sciences
16.11.08 Catalysing a Turnaround for the Global Economy
16.11.08 The Dichotomy of Success: Chronic Disease and Malnutrition in India
28.09.08 Market Insight: Russia
16.06.08 The Myths and Realities of the R&D Advantage
05.06.08 Corporate Global Citizenship - One Size Does Not Fit All
20.05.08 Scenarios Series Conclusion: What Can We Learn from the Future?
19.05.08 Eye on Algeria
19.05.08 Eye on Kazakhstan
19.05.08 Scenarios Series: Managing Mobile Talent
15.04.08 Addressing the Entry-level Skills Gap in Education
26.01.08 Death, Disease and Dirty Water
04.12.07 India's Demographic Dividend: How Will It Really Pay Out?
06.09.07 The Transformative Potential of Science and Technology in Asia
25.06.07 Maintaining Hyper-growth: Is There an Asian Way?
14.06.07 Rethinking Growth
14.06.07 African Urbanization: Making Room for the Boom
14.06.07 Unlocking the Potential: Building Capacity for the Future
19.05.07 Tourism Competitiveness: Taking Flight?
27.01.07 Managing Hyper-growth Corporations
27.01.07 New Blood for Industrialized Societies
27.01.07 The Price of Becoming Old
27.01.07 Strategies for a New Power Equation
27.01.07 Delivering on the Promise of Africa
25.01.07 Future Series: Building the Skills of Tomorrow

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WEF: Themes - E-commerce

11.05.10 Redesigning Europe's Competitiveness Strategy
09.11.09 India's Next Aspiration
28.01.07 The Impact of Web 2.0 and Emerging Social Network Models
25.01.07 The Age of the Avatar and Multiple Identities
25.01.03 China's Rise: Regional and Global Impacts
24.01.03 Cyber Attacks and Society

WEF: Themes - Corporate Governance

13.09.10 Managing across Cultures
06.06.10 Tackling Corruption, Enhancing Competitiveness
30.01.10 Financial Risk Management 2.0?
29.01.10 Women Leaders Dinner: Identifying Your Identity
28.01.10 New Corporate Governance in the Post-Crisis World
27.01.10 Rethinking Risk in the Boardroom
09.11.09 Financial Aftershock: Resuscitating the Flow of Private Capital
11.09.09 Redesigning Corporate Governance
18.06.09 Shaping the New Values of Capitalism
16.05.09 Global Redesign Series: The Post-crisis Regulatory Environment
15.05.09 Global Agenda Council Update: Corporate Governance
15.04.09 Financing Growth and Development in Adverse Conditions
30.01.09 Global Industry Outlook 2
28.09.08 Market Insight: Russia
27.09.08 New Entrepreneurship, Chinese-style
16.06.08 Corporate Global Citizenship: Its Future Role in Asia
19.05.08 Eye on Pakistan
27.01.08 Message from Davos: Believing in the Future
26.01.08 The DNA of Effective Boards
03.12.07 Building a Global Financial Centre in India
07.09.07 Growth Hotspots -- Focus on India
15.06.07 Africa and Asia: Creating a New Axis of Partnership
14.06.07 Avoiding a Race to the Bottom
27.01.07 Is Bigger Better in Private Equity?
26.01.07 In China, Does Big Equate to World Beater?
25.01.07 What's on the Mind of Asia's New Business Giants?
23.11.06 FDI: The Colour of Money
11.09.06 Sino-US Relations: Same Bed, Different Dreams?
11.09.06 Capital Markets in China: What Happened to the Take-off?
01.06.06 New Partnerships: How Will China and India Transform Africa?
31.05.06 Graduating Top Talent
22.05.06 Funding the Future?
21.05.06 Davos WorkSpace - Challenges in the Evolution of Capital Markets
20.05.06 Opening Plenary Session
20.05.06 Davos WorkSpace - Looking for the Next Big Idea
06.04.06 Opportunities for New Financial Actors
26.01.06 China Goes Global
26.01.06 Breakthrough Ideas for 2006: Doubt and Decision-making
10.09.05 China's Capital Markets: Where Are the Investors?
09.09.05 Ask the Venture Capitalist: Nurturing the Early Stage Investment Climate in China
29.01.05 Is Responsible Investment About to Pay Off?
07.12.04 Sooner Not Later: Indian Multinationals in the Fortune 500
06.12.04 Effective Governance: India?s Other Challenge
13.09.04 Understanding the Dynamics of Change in China: What's the Next Big Thing?
12.09.04 Economic Outlook: Moving towards a Market Economy
12.09.04 SOE Reform: An Update
12.09.04 Corporate Governance: From Scandal to Sustainability
12.09.04 The Credit Crunch: How Deep an Impact?
16.05.04 Leading with the Example: Governance Reform
30.04.04 Transatlantic Relations: A New Direction

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WEF: Themes - Business Strategy

15.09.10 Small Is Beautiful
13.09.10 The Emerging New Consumer
16.09.09 IdeasLab with Social Entrepreneurs
12.09.09 The Power of Positive Deviance
15.04.09 Will Technology Help Business Navigate in an Economic Downturn?
28.09.08 From Global Growth Company to Corporate Global Citizen
25.01.08 Local Innovation for Global Impact
25.06.07 China Plus One: Where Is the Safe Investment Bet? - GGC
26.04.07 Business Strategies in Climate Change
28.01.06 Beyond Short-termism: Not on My Watch
27.01.06 Digital 2.0: Powering a Creative Economy
26.01.06 Executing Business Strategies
27.01.05 How to Tap the Bottom of the Pyramid
15.05.04 Middle East Economies Update
22.01.04 Open Source Goes Mainstream
22.01.04 Leveraging Technology for the Bottom Line
28.01.03 Identifying Our Priorities: Key Messages from the Annual Meeting 2003
28.01.03 Applying Our Priorities to Business Strategy: A Brainstorming Session
25.01.03 Trade in Asia: The Business View

WEF: Themes - Business and Management

15.09.10 Corporate Citizenship: Why It Matters
15.09.10 WHAT IF: there is an emerging market crisis in 2011?
15.09.10 Looking into the Future: Predictive Models
14.09.10 Company Culture: A Key to Business Success
14.09.10 How to Become a Global Player
14.09.10 No Growth without Health
14.09.10 The Future of State-owned Enterprises
14.09.10 Looking into the Future: Mixed Reality
14.09.10 Ending the Trade Charade: Rethinking the Global Value Chain
14.09.10 Our Vision for How We Improve the State of the World by Serving Our Members and Constituents
14.09.10 Navigating through Troubled Waters
14.09.10 Creating Intrapreneurs
13.09.10 Reading Leaders' Minds
13.09.10 Asia's Workforce: The Female Factor
13.09.10 Managing across Cultures
13.09.10 The Emerging New Consumer
07.06.10 Emerging Green Collar Jobs and Green Entrepreneurship in Asia
06.06.10 When Asia's Youth Speaks, Is the Rest of the World Listening?
06.06.10 Countdown to Regional Integration
06.06.10 The Economic Redesign and Rebalance Imperative
02.06.10 Rebuild In Depth: Global Risks
02.06.10 Rebuild In Depth: Humanitarian Assistance and Fragile States
31.05.10 Rebuild In Depth: Low-Carbon Growth
31.05.10 Renovating the International System
11.05.10 Innovation, Green Technology and Growth: Pulling It Together
11.05.10 Rising from the Ashes: Redesigning European Crisis Management
11.05.10 Redesigning Europe's Competitiveness Strategy
07.05.10 Managing the Water-Food-Energy Nexus
07.05.10 A New Approach to Catalysing Africa's Trade Agenda
07.05.10 Produce Local, Trade Regional, Sell Global
06.05.10 Africa's Missing Middle
06.05.10 Africa's Destabilizing Factors
04.02.10 Entrepreneurship: The Key to Sustainable Growth
30.01.10 Connecting a Carbon- and Time-constrained World
30.01.10 Redesigning Financial Regulation
30.01.10 Weak Signals
30.01.10 IdeasLab with Young Global Leaders
30.01.10 IdeasLab with University of Pennsylvania and The Wharton School
30.01.10 The Gender Agenda: Putting Parity into Practice
29.01.10 Reinventing Management: The Challenge of Exponential Change
29.01.10 Negotiations: Overcoming the Challenges of Emotions and Culture
29.01.10 Wanted: Capital
29.01.10 Business Leadership for the 21st Century
29.01.10 Global Industry Outlook: Finance, Services and Media
29.01.10 The New Normal
29.01.10 IdeasLab on the Global Redesign Initiative (New Institutional Approaches)
29.01.10 Redesigning Capital Markets
29.01.10 Rebuilding the Grid
29.01.10 Achieving Social Goals: The Power of Behavioural Science
29.01.10 Creating Jobs and Strengthening Social Welfare

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WEF: Themes - Arts and Culture

31.05.10 Renovating the International System
07.05.10 New Models of Collaboration for Economic Development in Africa
06.05.10 Redesigning Africa's Capital Markets
05.05.10 Africa Brainstorming: Turning Vision into Reality
30.01.10 The Art of Musical Improvisation
28.01.10 Design for Change
28.01.10 Redesigning the International Monetary System
28.01.10 Reading Leaders' Minds
17.09.09 IdeasLab with Keio University: Digital Media and the Internet
12.09.09 Great Books for a Globalized World
10.09.09 Defining "Green" in Business
19.06.09 Setting Asia's Green Growth Agenda
11.06.09 The Future of South Africa
10.06.09 Africa and the New Global Economy
17.05.09 The Story from Dubai
15.05.09 Unconventional Capitalism
15.04.09 Regional Economic Update 2009
15.04.09 Financing Growth and Development in Adverse Conditions
01.02.09 A Roadmap Out of the Economic Crisis
29.01.09 The Middle East: Owning Its Challenges
18.11.08 Unlocking the Economic Synergies in South Asia
18.11.08 Big Bets on Technology and Manufacturing
16.11.08 The Future of India's Cyberculture
16.11.08 Ideas for Securing India's Promise
03.11.08 Outlook for the Future
01.11.08 The Shape of Things to Come
01.11.08 Global Risks and the Region
05.06.08 A Watertight Future?
05.06.08 Africa Economic Brainstorming - Drivers of Change
20.05.08 Meet the Young Global Leaders
15.04.08 Addressing Economic Insecurity in Latin America
25.01.08 New Drivers of Development
25.01.08 My Idea, My Design, but Whose Property?
23.01.08 Welcome to the Annual Meeting
23.01.08 Update 2008: Assessing Global Risks
03.12.07 India@Risk: Six Global Challenges Ahead
02.12.07 Will Regional Politics Reshape the Indian Economy?
26.06.07 The Leadership Imperative for an Asian Century
15.06.07 Powering Africa
15.06.07 Join the Africa Conversation
20.05.07 Leading in a Multicultural World
18.05.07 Opening Address
27.01.07 Modern Russia: Strengths, Challenges and New Prospects - A Perspective from the Government
27.01.07 Religion: Source of Peace or Cause of Violence and War?
27.01.07 The Emerging Strength of Emerging Markets
27.01.07 Energy 2007: Advancing the US Energy Agenda
27.01.07 Strategies for a New Power Equation
24.01.07 Update 2007: Addressing Global Fault Lines
24.01.07 The Shifting Power Equation: Exploring the Implications
24.01.07 Opening Plenary: The Shifting Power Equation

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WEF: The Future of Education: Incentives, Impact and Accountability

Meeting at the World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa
Marrakech, Morocco 25 October 2010


Co-Chairs
HRH Prince Hussam bin Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud

Prince of Saudi Royal Family; Chairman, Zain Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabia
Abdulla bin Ali Al-Thani
Vice-President, Education, Qatar Foundation, Qatar
Soraya Salti
Senior Vice-President, Middle East and North Africa, INJAZ Al Arab - JA Worldwide, Jordan

The World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Education Systems concluded in its 2010 Report that despite the significant global progress achieved in access to education, the issues of quality and relevance remain critical. Stronger, higher quality and more relevant education systems supported by sustainable funding and delivered by integrated cooperation between multiple stakeholders are urgently required. Too often, access to education has been promoted at the expense of quality. Schools rather than equipping youth with the critical skills required for success in today’s globally interconnected world, merely further propagate social inequality and exclusion.

In the Arab region, quality of education is intensely critical given its demographic and social implications. Although progress has been made in some key areas such as basic enrolment, millions of youth leave school without employable skills, and millions more emerge from university lacking the capabilities needed to compete for entry into private sector employment. Youth unemployment in the region averages 25%, and there are deep concerns about the quality and relevance of existing education models to provide the skills required for economic growth and development in the 21st century.

Through the Global Education Initiative's groundbreaking multistakeholder partnership models in education (MSPE) in Jordan (2003) and Egypt (2006), the World Economic Forum has demonstrated the potential for systemic and positive changes in national education advancement in the Arab world when there is clear government leadership and vision, and when key stakeholders are given the opportunity to collaborate. The time is now for the Arab world to build on these experiences and initiate the changes required to begin a region-wide transformation in education.

With policy transformation on education reform as a core theme, the Education Summit will convene leaders from the highest levels of government, business, academia and civil society with key stakeholders from the education sector to drive a paradigm shift aimed at unlocking the true potential of the Arab world and develop a roadmap focused on three key building blocks:

- Redesigning assessment and testing systems to establish the right incentives to
stimulate and support innovative approaches in the delivery of education, particularly oriented towards the development of advanced competencies such as civics, ethics, global citizenship, problem solving, entrepreneurship, innovation, good health and long living
- Integrating innovation and entrepreneurial thinking into the education process to enhance the impact on the quality and relevance of education
- Creating a network that welcomes and better facilitates the engagement of all multi-stakeholders in the governance of national

Who can participate in the Summit?
Participation in the Education Summit is by invitation and is reserved for senior business leaders from Partners and Foundation Members participating in the World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa, members of the Global Agenda Council on Education Systems, members from the Regional Agenda Council on the Middle East and the Young Global Leaders. Government and civil society leaders, teachers, headmasters, university presidents, students and education professionals from the Arab world and beyond will also be invited to lead discussions.

Strategic engagement of Partners
The outcome of the Education Summit will be the development of a roadmap that defines the actions and commitments required to catalyse the region-wide education transformation urgently required for the Arab world to realize its full potential. Experts from the Forum’s Global Agenda Councils, leaders from government and civil society, and senior business leaders from Forum Partner companies - especially those from the Arab world - will be invited to co-design the programme of the Education Summit and more importantly to develop the scope and elements of the roadmap.

Where do I find additional information on the programme?
Updated information about the Summit and its programme can be found on our website at www.weforum.org/MiddleEast2010.

Preliminary Programme Structure

Monday 25 October

07.30 Registration
09.00 - 10.15 Opening Plenary
10.15 - 10.30 Coffee Break
10.30 - 12.30 Breakout Sessions
12.45 - 14.15 Working Lunch
14.30 - 15.15 Plenary
15.15 - 15.30 Coffee Break
15.30 - 17.30 Breakout Sessions
18.00 - 19.00 Closing Plenary
19.45 - 21.30 Closing Dinner

WEF: 2010 Roadmap

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For main themes featured in the programme of the World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa 2010

Regional Responses to Global Risks
New Realities: Resilient Growth for the Arab World
Solving the New Energy Equation
The Price of Water Security
The Risk of Underinvestment in Infrastructure
The Next Iraq
Core Concerns of Arabs and Israelis
Global Agenda Council Update: Systemic Financial Risk
Accounting for Talent Risk
The Making of a Risk Officer
US-Muslim Relations: Revisiting Cairo
Navigating through Risk
WHAT IF Arab Societies Face Life without Oil Sooner
Inside Israel


Unlocking Sustainable Growth
Economics of Sustainability
Building the Future Middle Class
A New Dubai
Global Agenda Council Update: Middle East and North Africa
The Next Innovation Drive: Low Carbon or Low Cost?
The Female Factor
Growing with India
CNBC Debate: A Case for Global Citizenship
Teaching for the Test
Keeping Balance in Food Security

North Africa: New Business Geographies
Asia’s Growth: The North African Dimension
France 24 Debate: The Future of the Mediterranean: Business Unusual
Banking for West Africa
Our Minds for Andalucia
The Power of Desert Energy
Driving Healthcare through Technology
Balancing Trade
Redrawing Migration

World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa

Marrakech, Morocco, 26-28 October 2010
Purpose, Resilience and Prosperity


The 2010 World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa will take place on 26-28 October in Marrakech, in partnership with the Government of Morocco.

Under the theme "Purpose, Resilience and Prosperity", the meeting will gather the foremost leaders from business, government and civil society to renew the region’s growth and development strategies in the context of pressing global risks, including oil price volatility, water scarcity and migration.

Particular attention will be paid to sovereign wealth and its heightened focus on regional engagement in such pivotal areas as renewables, health and social systems, infrastructure development and technology readiness.

The prospects of the Middle East and North Africa will be examined in view of new modalities for trade and investment across the Mediterranean and with sub-Saharan Africa, as well as the region’s evolving relationships with the United States and Asia.

The programme of the meeting will revolve around three core workstreams:
Regional Responses to Global Risks
Unlocking Sustainable Growth
North Africa: New Business Geographies

Co-Chairs
Anass Alami, Director-General, Caisse de Dépôt et de Gestion (CDG), Morocco
Shyam Sunder Bhartia, Chairman and Managing Director, Jubilant Bhartia Group, India
Brian Duperreault, President and Chief Executive Officer, Marsh & McLennan Companies Inc. (MMC), USA
Carlos Ghosn, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Renault-Nissan Alliance (France and Japan), France; Member of the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum
Lubna S. Olayan, Deputy Chairperson and Chief Executive Officer; Olayan Financing Company, Saudi Arabia; Chair, Arab Business Council
David M. Rubenstein, Co-Founder and Managing Director, The Carlyle Group, USA

For more information, please e-mail: MiddleEast@weforum.org

The India Economic Summit - New Delhi, India 14-16 November 2010

Following India’s national elections, the last India Economic Summit brought together the Prime Minister of India and 15 members of the Union Cabinet with international and domestic business leaders to outline an agenda for inclusive growth.

This year’s Summit has the objective of moving from an agenda to action. It will focus on how domestic and international decision-makers from business, government and civil society can implement national policies across states in both rural and urban areas. To fulfil the goal of achieving “double-digit” growth, India’s imperatives include building critical infrastructure, expanding skills development and achieving income and gender equality.

The programme for this year’s Summit will convene under the theme “Implementing India” and will pay particular attention to how the necessities for inclusive social and economic progress can be delivered and serve as a model for other developing economies.

For more information, please e-mail: India@weforum.org

Co-Chairs:

Jon Fredrik Baksaas, President and Chief Executive Officer, Telenor, Norway
Ajit Gulabchand, Chairman and Managing Director, Hindustan Construction Company, India
Ellen Kullman, Chair of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, DuPont, USA
Pawan Munjal, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Hero Group, India
Dennis Nally, Chairman, PricewaterhouseCoopers International, PricewaterhouseCoopers, USA



Useful Information
Fact Sheet
Executive Summary
India Economic Summit 2009

14/09 Business leaders highlight close links between sustainability and competitiveness

Sustainability and competitiveness are closely linked, business leaders argued in a plenary session on sustainability and corporate competitiveness on the second day of the fourth Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2010. “Sustainability goes beyond greenhouse emission targets,” said Eckhard Cordes, Chairman of the Management Board and Chief Executive Officer of METRO GROUP, the German retailer. “It must become part of your business and not just an add-on and it must be visibly supported by the CEO.” Sustainability and competitiveness are really the same thing, reckoned Klaus Kleinfeld, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Alcoa, the aluminium producer in the United States. “When we do something, we do it in a sustainable way.” If a company does the right thing and has the right values, it attracts customers and people want to work there, Kleinfeld added.

15/09 Emerging economies set to become main engine of growth

Emerging economies have recovered faster from the crisis than developed countries and are set to become the main engine of growth for the world, leading economists and Chinese officials said in a panel addressing the outlook for the global economy.

Gerard Lyons, Chief Economist and Group Head, Global Research, Standard Chartered Bank, said that the recovery in global growth has been led by emerging economies. "It is a tale of two worlds," he said, pointing to stagnation in the West versus strong growth in the East.

This is not necessarily a disaster, noted Nariman Behravesh, Chief Economist, HIS. “Japan has showed us that sluggish growth doesn’t have to mean a deteriorating quality of life," he added.

"China’s government responded rapidly to the crisis of 2008, taking the lead in achieving economic recovery," said Ma Jiantang, Commissioner, National Bureau of Statistics of China. China’s GDP growth rate rose far more than expected, from 6.1% in early 2009 to 11.9% in 2010. Measures have since been taken to address rapid credit growth and fears of overheating. "I am not worried about the speed of the economic recovery," he added. "China is looking to achieving 10% growth in 2010, with CPI less than 3%."

Xia Bin, Director-General, Financial Research Institute, Development Research Center of the State Council (DRC), People’s Republic of China, stressed that growth expectations need to be moderately adjusted downwards to ensure growth is sustainable: "China cannot enjoy the same double-digit growth rates of 2003 to 2007."