We need to talk about Davos

The Take podcast appears on the billionaires who’ve formed Davos, and the way Davos shapes our world.

World Financial Discussion board Geneva Managing Director Saadia Zahidi, Dean on the Paris Faculty of Worldwide Affairs (PSIA) Arancha Gonzalez Laya, Governor of the State of Michigan Gretchen Whitmer, Chief of the Democratic Forces of Belarus Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, and journalist and activist Masih Alinejad attend the session "Ladies's Management: In the direction of Parity in Energy" throughout the World Financial Discussion board (WEF) 2023 within the Alpine resort of Davos, Switzerland, January 19, 2023. [Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters]

The World Financial Discussion board is thought for glitzy events, exclusivity, and dealmaking – along with panels on matters starting from local weather change to ‘stakeholder capitalism’. The theme of this yr’s annual assembly in Davos is “cooperation in a fragmented world,” and Davos mainstays are the world’s strongest networkers. They wield an infinite quantity of financial and political energy. So who're they? What truly occurs at Davos, and what do the individuals left off the invite listing must find out about it?

On this episode: 

• Peter S. Goodman (@petersgoodman), world economics reporter at The New York Occasions and writer of Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World
• Max Lawson (@maxlawsontin), Head of Inequality Coverage, Oxfam

Episode credit:

This episode was produced by Negin Owliaei with Ashish Malhotra and our host, Halla Mohieddeen. Miranda Lin fact-checked this episode.

Our manufacturing group contains Chloe Okay. Li, Miranda Lin, Ashish Malhotra, Negin Owliaei, and Amy Walters. 

Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Aya Elmileik and Adam Abou-Gad are our engagement producers. Alexandra Locke is The Take’s govt producer, and Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera’s head of audio.

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