The Hoffmann Centre for Global Sustainability (HCGS) launched in September 2024, with a mission to deliver world-class research to inform sound and actionable policy. This is the Centre’s second year at Davos.
HCGS will be represented at Davos by Beatrice Weder di Mauro, André Hoffmann Chair of Economics, Climate, and Nature Finance and Co-Director of the centre; Dominic Rohner, Co-Director Hoffmann Center for Global Sustainability and Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR Fellow); and Ioana Popp, Managing Director of the centre.
At the heart of the week’s events is “Restoring Trust: Strengthening Cooperation and Building the Conditions for Enduring Peace”, an interactive panel and working lunch hosted and moderated by Beatrice Weder di Mauro on Thursday, 22 January at the InTent at Davos. The event will examine how we can move from intent to action in restoring trust in the international system, strengthening cooperation, and laying the groundwork for a less hostile world.
The session will feature speeches from Sergei Guriev, Dean of London Business School and CEPR Fellow; Severin Schwan, Chairman of Roche; Martin Sandbu, European economics commentator at the Financial Times; Sebastian Mallaby, Paul A Volker Senior Fellow and US Council of Foreign Relations; and Sandrine Dixson-Declève, Honorary President/Global Ambassador, The Club of Rome.
The session will then break out into five table discussions: “Lessons for Academia” facilitated by Dominic Rohner, Co-Director Hoffmann Center for Global Sustainability and CEPR Fellow; “Lessons for Governments” by Sergei Guriev; “Lessons for Business” by Marie-Laure Salles, Director of the Geneva Graduate Institute; “Lessons for Multilateral Institutions” by Naoko Ishii, Professor at Tokyo University and Former CEO Global Environment Facility; and “Lessons for Civil Society” by Ioana Popp.
On Wednesday, 21 January, Achim Wennmann will also be present at “Engaging the Private Sector in Humanitarian Contexts”, organised by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) with the World Economic Forum (HRI) and the Global Shapers Community in the WEF House of Switzerland. The event will address how “new approaches and financing models [can] foster resilience and ensure quicker and longer-lasting responses to humanitarian crises”. Learn More.