In the aftermath of the World Economic Forum in Davos, our board member Andrey Chicherin shares his impressions of the "Davos Olympics":
"As a participant of the WEF in Davos this year, I think the forum may easily appear to an outside observer as a peculiar Olympics program that combines running the slopes around the famous Promenade street, roaming late night parties and racing snow mountain road rallies. Plenty of challenges to test “world economic elite” endurance and give excitement through the entire week (regular running of half-marathons helped me a lot to stay among the top performers there).
The intellectual track of “Davos Olympics” is traditionally fully packed with panels, discussions, and meetings covering the entire spectrum of world business, political, and social affairs. Davos is the place where ideas can find the shortest way to become reality. To be awarded the privilege of rapid transformation effect, they have to be persuasive, well-articulated, and resonate well across different mindsets, cultures and mentalities. This makes most of conversations here enjoyable and leave a lot of food for thought after them. Intertwined topics of gender parity, AI, longevity, and sustainable development will be taken home and will go live in many parts of the world as promising projects and initiatives (I sincerely hope that years of my experience in the climate finance shared here helped some of these ideas to get to the practical implementation).
Last week we were busy day and night while rebuilding trust, reinforcing financial mechanisms for sustainability support, and finding a way forward for creative thoughts. It seems that this year in Davos Olympics, the world optimism won by a thin margin, and that feeling makes us all - the entire planet - a united winning team."
"As a participant of the WEF in Davos this year, I think the forum may easily appear to an outside observer as a peculiar Olympics program that combines running the slopes around the famous Promenade street, roaming late night parties and racing snow mountain road rallies. Plenty of challenges to test “world economic elite” endurance and give excitement through the entire week (regular running of half-marathons helped me a lot to stay among the top performers there).
The intellectual track of “Davos Olympics” is traditionally fully packed with panels, discussions, and meetings covering the entire spectrum of world business, political, and social affairs. Davos is the place where ideas can find the shortest way to become reality. To be awarded the privilege of rapid transformation effect, they have to be persuasive, well-articulated, and resonate well across different mindsets, cultures and mentalities. This makes most of conversations here enjoyable and leave a lot of food for thought after them. Intertwined topics of gender parity, AI, longevity, and sustainable development will be taken home and will go live in many parts of the world as promising projects and initiatives (I sincerely hope that years of my experience in the climate finance shared here helped some of these ideas to get to the practical implementation).
Last week we were busy day and night while rebuilding trust, reinforcing financial mechanisms for sustainability support, and finding a way forward for creative thoughts. It seems that this year in Davos Olympics, the world optimism won by a thin margin, and that feeling makes us all - the entire planet - a united winning team."