Radio Davos
How do we solve the world’s biggest challenges? From climate change to inequality; the rise of big tech and rapid changes in how we live and work. Radio Davos talks to the people who have the ideas, the passion and the power to make change happen in a way that benefits all of us.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 33 minutes
- Episodes
- 270
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Healthy populations and healthy economies
What lessons can we learn from the pandemic to make our health systems more resilient to future shocks?
Speakers:
Helen Clark, former New Zealand Prime Minister who co-chairs the Independent Panel f…
Stop ‘doomscrolling’ and get the rest you need
‘Doomscrolling’ - getting lost in a social media rabbit hole of bad news - became a thing during the pandemic. We talk to a psychologist about what it is and how to beat it, and we learn how to get t…
A big day for big oil
On just one day in May, two US oil majors suffered a rebellion by shareholders who demanded action on climate change and a Dutch court ordered Shell to cut its greenhouse gas emissions.
But was it a …
Tackling the Climate Crisis
Former US vice president Al Gore joins World Economic Forum President Børge Brende and a panel of other high-level guests to look at climate change in a pivotal year for governments, policy makers an…
Presenting our new podcast: Agenda Dialogues
The World Economic Forum has a new podcast - Agenda Dialogues, bringing you the audio from top-level discussions on the world’s biggest issues, hosted by Forum President Borge Brende. In this Radio D…
COVID’s impact on displaced people, with UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi
There are more forcibly displaced people than ever - 82 million - despite the pandemic making it harder to flee across borders. On World Refugee Day, Radio Davos speaks to UN High Commissioner for Re…
COVID’s long-term impacts on jobs - insights from the Jobs Reset Summit
Millions of jobs may never return; gender equality has been set back; and work from home is here to stay: Journalist and podcaster Ashley Milne-Tyte talks us through some of the most striking insight…
Climate change and the ocean
Marine biologist and the head of the world’s largest research and expedition ship, Nina Jensen, joins us to look at highlights from the recent Virtual Ocean Dialogues and Climate Breakthroughs events…
Smart Toys - is AI in play helping children prepare for their future?
Are your children’s toys smarter than you? Two judges at the inaugural Smart Toy Awards, musician will.i.am and UC Berkeley Professor Ron Dahl, an expert on childhood development, talk about their ho…
Jobs of the future
As a preview of the Jobs Reset Summit, Bloomberg TV’s Francine Lacqua joins us to look at the changing world of work and what might be the jobs of the future.
Ransomware, with US Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas
When hackers shut down a pipeline dubbed the US ‘infrastructure jugular’ demanding millions of dollars, the world woke up to the threat of ransomware. Experts from the Centre for Cybersecurity explai…
Mental health: the trillion-dollar challenge that we’re still not sure how to beat
‘Corporate wellness’ is big business, but can it really help tackle the huge challenges of mental health? We hear from the Wellcome Trust’s Director of Mental Health, Professor Miranda Wolpert, and …
Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales’ advice to young entrepreneurs: to succeed - 'get comfortable with failure'
The co-founder of Wikipedia - the world’s fifth most popular website - had a Q&A with entrepreneurs from the World Economic Forum’s UpLink programme. His key word of advice: don’t be scared to try.
Leadership - meet ‘Meet the Leader’
If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to lead a huge company, Linda Lacina has the answers. In her podcast, Meet the Leader, she chats with a senior figure - usually a CEO - of a big organisation to…
The global energy transition
For 10 years the World Economic Forum has tracked the world’s progress on getting better, cleaner energy for all. We look at the latest findings and ask how we can achieve climate change goals.
The joy - and fear - of tech: some of the best bits from the Global Technology Governance Summit 2021
Axios Chief Technology Correspondent Ina Fried joins Robin Pomeroy for a look at some of the best moments of GTGS, featuring the CEOs of YouTube, Salesforce, government ministers from France and Sing…
Global Technology Governance Summit
Nikkei journalist Hiroyuki Nishimura joins Robin Pomeroy for a look at the World Economic Forum’s tech summit, hosted by Japan - an event bringing together more than 50 governments and 600 companies …
How COVID deepened gender inequality
The World Economic Forum’s Gender Gap Report 2021 gives a worrying indication of the impact that the COVID pandemic has has on gender inequality. Radio Davos hears from Forum Managing Director Saadia…
World Water Day with Matt Damon and Gary White
Hollywood star Matt Damon is a leading figure in efforts to get clean water and sanitation to the poorest people in the world. Damon and co-founder of charity Water.Org Gary White tell us why water i…
UpLink: The Eureka Moment
How do you turn that great idea for making the world a better place into reality? We hear from four innovators who are working with the Forum's UpLink platform to tackle the biggest challenges facing…