At least 40 heads of state and government are expected at next week’s meeting of the rich and powerful at the Swiss ski resort of Davos, where Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang will give a keynote speech, organizers said Wednesday.
The World Economic Forum, the Geneva-based think tank that organizes the annual get-together, said 2,500 politicians, executives, central bankers, religious leaders and others would convene to consider “The new global context” — the theme of this year’s meeting.
The forum’s executive chairman, Klaus Schwab, said the world was at a crossroads between “a world of disintegration, hate, fundamentalism, and on the other …read more
Source: Voice of America