Davos 2024: Power players assemble for the World Economic Forum
Power Play
POLITICO
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🗓️ 16 January 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
As the World Economic Forum gets underway in Davos, many of the world's most powerful business leaders, politicians and tech gurus — and even the odd veteran pop star — have arrived in the Swiss Alps hoping to set the agenda for the year ahead.
This week we present four episodes of Power Play with an array of interviews and analysis. Today, host Anne McElvoy brings together three of POLITICO's keenest Davos watchers to chart the week ahead. She's joined by Alex Ward, a national security reporter based in Washington; Nahal Toosi, a senior foreign affairs correspondent; and Suzanne Lynch, author of POLITICO's Global Playbook, your must-read each morning to keep up with the latest news from Davos.
Together they'll explore a range of topics including how the prospect of a Trump return is impacting discussions, as well as Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's in-person push to regain the spotlight for Kyiv.
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| 0:32.1 | A special welcome to the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum. |
| 0:36.8 | Convening under the theme Rebuilding Trust, this is the 54th annual meeting. |
| 0:41.8 | The World Economic Forum, gathering in Davos is a |
| 0:45.0 | fixture on the annual calendar of many of the world's most powerful business leaders |
| 0:49.7 | as well as politicians, tech gurus, the occasional veteran pop star, |
| 0:54.8 | and a lot of hangers on who just fancy rubbing shoulders with the global elite. |
| 1:00.0 | Its founder, Klaus Schwab, hopes this Alpine January Jamboree will set the political and economic |
| 1:07.0 | agenda for the year ahead. |
| 1:09.3 | We have the capacity to turn the challenges into opportunities. |
| 1:16.1 | The meetings critics often point out that it can be a bit of an echo chamber of high net worth |
| 1:20.8 | do gooders and liberal elites who stubbornly don't get the point |
| 1:24.5 | about the rise of populism across the Atlantic and in Europe. But still Davos rolls on |
| 1:30.8 | and continues to attract some of the most powerful people in the world. |
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