Davos arrives as world on verge of nervous breakdown

Monday, January 19, 2015
By Paul Martin

Kim Hjelmgaard
USA TODAY
January 19, 2015

LONDON — Do-gooding captains of industry and government will travel up a Swiss mountain this week for the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos with one hefty task on their minds: how to make the world a better place.

Dozens of heads of state and 2,500 business leaders, along with cultural emissaries and experts from across the entire field of human endeavor, will pile into the Alpine ski town — population 11,142 — for five days of intense workshops, speeches and fast-and-furious networking starting Tuesday night.

“This event is an extraordinary opportunity and keeps its validity because it’s able to attract so many interesting people from the world of business and government and other communities for a relatively informal and open conversation,” said Ian Goldin, a Davos veteran, and the director of the Oxford Martin School, a research institute attached to Oxford University.

This year there is no shortage of global wounds that require bandaging, if not tourniquets, at the 45th Davos meeting. As delegates get ready to assemble high up in the Swiss Alps, the world appears on the verge of a nervous breakdown.

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