Euronews: inside the World Economic Forum 2017
Euronews ups its coverage of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2017 with daily news coverage and live broadcasts of two panel discussions featuring global leaders, moderated by Isabelle Kumar
| News daily coverage
in the News bulletins every 30 minutes from 17th to 20th January Throughout the week, Euronews special correspondents in Davos, Isabelle Kumar (Davos’ media leader) and Sarah Chappell, report on this major event where global leaders gather to share their views on this year’s designated topics: Responsive and Responsible Leadership, the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Global Collaboration, Building Positive Identities, Fixing Market Capitalism, and Restoring Economic Growth. |
| The Global Conversation LIVE from Davos
> Post-Multicultural era LIVE on Wednesday 18th at 09:15am CET – Duration: 45 minutes then on Saturday 21st at 11:15 CET and 23:15 CET, Sunday 22nd at 12:15 CET. |
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| Isabelle Kumar leads the discussion on a crucial topic: Integration policies based on multiculturalism or assimilation are being challenged in this era of cultural divisiveness. How can we build a new social contract that ensures trust between people of varied backgrounds?
The panel brings together Lonnie Bunch, Director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture; Brendan Cox, international campaigner and activist, and husband of the late UK Labour MP, Jo Cox, murdered as she campaigned for Britain to stay part of the European Union; Alexander de Croo, Belgian Deputy Prime Minister, and novelist and political commentator Elif Shafak, the most widely-read female author in Turkey. |
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| The Global Conversation LIVE from Davos
> Russia’s role in the world
LIVE on Thursday 19th at 15:00 CET – Duration: 45 minutes then on Saturday 21st at 16:15 CET, Sunday 22nd at 01:15 CET and 14:15 CET |
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| Russia is the focus of our second panel discussion “How are national politics and a new economic and geopolitical context reshaping Russia’s role in the world?”
Isabelle Kumar puts the question to First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Igor Shuvalov, Chairman of the Board of Ulmart, Russia’s leading E-commerce site Dmitry Kostygin, CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund Kirill Dmitriev, Founder, Chairman and Co-Chief Investment Officer of Bridgewater Associates Ray Dalio, and the Minister of Foreign & European affairs of Slovakia Miroslav Lajcak. |
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| Davos Special Edition
Monday 23rd January at 21:45 CET
In a 10-minute wrap-up of the World Economic Forum, Euronews’ team looks back at the event’s highlights: interviews of leading figures, and new initiatives and common resolutions reached at the meeting. |
| About Isabelle Kumar | @isabelle_kumar |
| Isabelle Kumar is a British journalist.
She joined Euronews in 2003 and is now one of the channel’s leading reporters. She has presented various programmes on Euronews and currently hosts the flagship interview programme “The Global Conversation”. Isabelle has interviewed many world leaders and covers politics and international current affairs. |
(Source: Euronews press release)