Jan 24, 2025 · Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, 24 January 2025 – At a time when the world is being shaped by geopolitical tensions, economic shifts and technological advancement, close to 3,000 policy-makers, business executives, international organization and civil society leaders, academics and innovators from around the world convened at the 55th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum to address shared ...

With the World Health Organization continuing to research the potential of so-called ‘Disease X’, what novel efforts are needed to prepare healthcare systems for the multiple challenges ahead?

Jan 21, 2025 · Speaking at what he described as “one of the most uncertain geopolitical and geoeconomic moments in generations," Børge Brende, President and CEO, World Economic Forum, stressed that the world is at a critical inflection point and that 2025 will be a year of enormous consequence."The longstanding international order that existed for the last three decades has receded.

Jan 18, 2024 · World leaders gathered at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday to discuss Disease X, a hypothetical virus 20 times deadlier than COVID-19.

Jan 22, 2025 · Switzerland’s Foreign Minister Federal Councillor Ignazio Cassis, left, drink a white wine with Maros Sefcovic, EU Commissioner for Trade and Economic Security, right, prior to a bilateral meeting on the sideline of the World Economic Forum, in Davos, Switzerland, Wednesday, January 22, 2025. (Laurent Gillieron/Keystone via AP)

Jan 18, 2024 · CLAIM: A deadly contagion known as Disease X is emerging and under discussion at the World Economic Forum’s 2024 annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland. AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. Disease X is not real.

Jan 11, 2024 · Social media posts claimed that a World Economic Forum panel discussion about Disease X is evidence that global leaders are planning a new pandemic.

Jan 21, 2025 · U.S. President Donald Trump makes a special address remotely during the 55th annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, January 23, 2025.

Jan 23, 2025 · DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — Leading business and political figures attending the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, have discussed and debated topics such as technology, tariffs, climate change, Ukraine, Gaza and the global economy this week. Here is some of what they said: ____ “We are witnessing a backsliding in democracy everywhere in the world, even in the most advanced ...

Jan 20, 2025 · Space technologies can tackle many of the world’s most pressing business and societal challenges. This report by the World Economic Forum and McKinsey & Company shows that lower costs and improved access to space-enabled technologies such as communications; positioning, navigation and timing; and Earth observation services could take the global space economy to $1.8 trillion by 2035, up from ...