WEF 2022: Biggest issues to discuss at Davos this year? 5 experts explain

Excerpts from interviews with five experts highlighting what they see as the biggest issues currently demanding our attention at Davos 2022.

“May you live in interesting times.”

The origins of this passive-aggressive curse may be unclear, but its meaning is apparent. These are indeed very interesting times, which may make it more difficult than usual to choose among the many publicly-available sessions slated for the Forum’s Annual Meeting 2022 in Davos next week – the first in-person staging of the event since January 2020.

A few things have happened since then. A pandemic that continues to claim lives and disrupt daily existence, a devastating war being waged in Ukraine with dire implications for the rest of the world, and a UN climate report