You don’t expect matters of faith to be high on the agenda when world leaders gather in a time of economic uncertainty and global crises.

But at this year’s World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, religion and spirituality did make some inroads.

Some six out of seven people in the world adhere to a religion, and a good proportion of the remainder acknowledge some kind of higher power. The world’s political and economic leaders need to take better account of the values, morality and interests of those they serve.

In 2012, the World Economic Forum established a ...

We will see increasingly creative partnerships between for-profit entities and traditional universities, writes Linda Lorimer, Vice-President of Yale University.

We often hear references to “the” future of the university. In fact, the WEF has a Global Agenda Council dedicated to the subject. But the members of our GAC identified early that there is no one destination or definition of the university of tomorrow—rather universities will have multiple futures and multiple identities. We will continue to benefit from a wide spectrum of institutions: those ...