Editorials from Young Global Leaders

In addition to the work prepared by the Global Agenda Councils, the Forum's Young Global Leaders were asked for their generation's views on issues related to Shaping the Post Crisis World. The views expressed here are those of the Young Global Leader and do not necessarily reflect the views of his/her company or organization or of the World Economic Forum.

Kristin Rechberger, Vice-President, National Geographic Society (NGS), USA
Enric Sala, National Geographic Fellow, National Geographic Society (NGS), USA



Debo Adesina - Editor and Deputy Managing Director, Guardian Newspapers, Nigeria
Compassionate Capital for Economies Without Borders 

Hessa Al Khalifa - Executive Director, INJAZ Bahrain, Bahrain



Laura Alfaro - Associate Professor, Harvard Business School, USA
Reform of the Global Governance System and its Adaptation to the Needs of the 21st Century

Rodrigo Baggio, Executive Director, Committee for Democracy in Information Technology
(CDI), Brazil
Social Business Capital Market 

Brian Behlendorf - Author and Consultant, Brian Behlendorf, USA
Tackling Big Problems Through Civic Information Technologies 

Adam Bird - Director, McKinsey & Company, Germany and Mark Read - Director, Strategy, WPP, United Kingdom
Issue: The Reassertion of National Sovereignity



Cristina Bitar - Executive Director, Independientes en Red, Chile



Amit Burman - Vice-Chairman, Dabur India Limited, India
Invest In Infrastructure To Sustain India’s Economic Growth

Gustavo Cardoso - Professor, LINI-ISCTE (Instituto de Cieencias do Trabalho e da
Empresa), Portugal
Keynes 2.0: Networks, Energy and Transportation

Eric Charas - Founder and Managing Director, Charas, LDA, Mozambique
“Crisis…? What Crisis?...”

Adrian David Cheok - Director, Mixed Reality Lab, Interactive and Digital Media Institute
(IDM), Singapore
Inventing the Future of Society with Interactive Media

Andrew Cohen - Managing Director, JP Morgan Private Bank, JPMorgan Chase, USA
Diversity is not Skin Deep

Hilary Cottam - Founding Director, Participle, United Kingdom
Creating the Future: Five Core Principles for a 21st Century Social Architecture

Carola Ferstl - Anchor, N-TV, Germany
Roll out: ‘Learning about Money’

Charmian Gooch - Co-Founder and Co-Director, Global Witness, United Kingdom
Due diligence: breaking the links between banks, corruption and poverty

Georges Kern - Chief Executive Officer, IWC International Watch, Switzerland

Digital rights for consumers - various authors

Aaron McCormack - Chief Executive Officer, BT Conferencing, BT Plc, USA
Shaping the Post-Crisis Corporation

Erwann Michel-Kerjan - Managing Director, Center for Risk Management and Decision Processes, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Haven’t You Switched to Risk Management 2.0 Yet?

Christian Mumenthaler - Member of the Executive Board, Head of Life and Health Products Division, Swiss Re, Switzerland
Dealing with an interlinked world



David Munro - Chief Executive, Corporate and Investment Banking, Standard Bank of South
Africa, South Africa

Henrik Naujoks - Partner, Bain & Company, Germany
Beyond Shareholder Value

Gavin Newsom, Mayor, San Francisco, USA
Viewing Cities as Global Gateways for Environmental Sustainability and Economic Growth ChinaSF: A Model Partnership 

Cherie Nursalim - Executive Director, GITI Group, People's Republic of China
Shaping the Post-Crisis World: United in Diversity

Rolph Payet, Special Adviser to the President of Seychelles
‘Silent Springs’ Re-invented

Aaron Pereira - Co-Founder, CanadaHelps and Vartana, Canada

Christine Ramon - Executive Director and Chief Financial Officer, Sasol, South Africa

Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui - Chair, Board of Directors, ACCION International, USA
Social Warming1 vs. Global Warming

Maintaining liberal leadership of the global system - Various authors

Ewa Sadowska – Chief Executive Officer, BARKA, United Kingdom

Cameron Sinclair - Co-Founder and Executive Director, Architecture for Humanity, USA

Dr David Skilling - Chief Executive Officer, New Zealand Institute, New Zealand
International Architecture for a Changing World

David M. Webb – Editor, Webb-site.com, Hong Kong
Breaking down the nation-state and solving our energy problems

Neeraj Bharadwadj - Managing Director and Country Head, Apax Partners India Advisers
Pvt. Ltd, India
The Global Governance Challenge

Peter Bisanz - Director, Entropy Films, USA
Importance of Religious and Cultural Understanding for Sustained Economic Stability

Ian Bremmer, President, Eurasia Group, USA

John Hope Bryant, Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Operation Hope, USA
Global Financial Literacy and Empowerment for all

Patrick Chappatte – Editorial Cartoonist, Globe Cartoon, Switzerland
A New Immigration Pact

Mehmet Gürcan Daimagüler - Vice-President, World Security Network Foundation, Germany

Jaime de Bourbon Parme, Crisis Response Operations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Netherlands
Weathering global shocks

Ronald de Jong

Idalia Cruz Garza, Director, Strategy, TV Azteca, Mexico
The role of Media in crisis

Lívia Járóka – Member of the European Parliament, European Parliament, Hungary
Why it is beneficial for Europe to invest in Roma education 

Madhu Kanna – Managing Director, Corporate Strategy, Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., India

M. James Kondo, President, Health Policy Institute, Japan
1 billion hungry, 1 billion obese

Johann Koss, President and Chief Executive Officer, Right To Play International, Canada
Promoting Economic Growth by Investing in Civil Society

Michael Kremer – Gates Professor of Developing Societies, Department of Economics,
Harvard University, USA + 42 co-signing YGLs
Five Principles for Reinventing Aid

Lisa Kropman - Founder, The Business Place, South Africa
Building the institutional capacity of the Developing State in transition

Paola Lanzarini – Director, Fondazione Unipolis, Italy
Why we need a new redistribution of wealth for growth

Nancy Lublin – Chief Executive Officer, Do Something, USA
Policy Paper: Bringing Market Forces to the NGO Sector

James Moody, General Manager, Government and International, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia
Perverse Patents: Does the patent system limit opportunities for the poorest of the poor?

Nilmini Rubin – Professional Staff Member, International Economics, US Senate Committee
on Foreign Relations, USA
Petroleum & Poverty: We Need to Fight the Resource Curse

Karien van Gennip, Director, European and International Affairs, ING Group, Netherlands
Inclusive, Trust Based Societies

Ricardo Villela Marino – Chief Executive Officer, Latin America, Banco Itaú SA, Brazil

Mark Weldon, Chief Executive Officer, New Zealand Exchange, New Zealand

Peter Würtenberger – Chief Marketing Officer, Axel Springer AG, Germany
The Change of Media in the Current Crisis

Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, USA
The Web’s Dark Energy 

Hafsat Abiola, Founder and Director, China-Africa People's Development Initiative, People's Republic of China
Promotion of the non-market sector

Scott Brison - Member of Liberal Cabinet, House of Commons, Canada
A wasted opportunity

Thomas Crampton - Editor, www.thomascrampton.com, Hong Kong SAR
Migrant Media

Armen Darbinian, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, International Centre for Human Development (ICHD), Armenia
The Lessons of a Crisis

Kumi Fujisawa, Co-founder of Think Tank SophiaBank, Co-founder of The Japan Social Entrepreneur Forum, Japan
A New Strategy for Social Investment

Katherine Garrett-Cox - Chief Executive Officer, Alliance Trust, United Kingdom
Investing in Human Capital – Maximising Potential

Suhas Gopinath -Chief Executive Officer and President, Globals ITeS, India
& Benedikt Dalkmann, Globals Inc

Roy C. Harvey - Plant Manager, Alcoa San Ciprián, Spain
Organizing Cooperation and Coordination

Kola Karim, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, Shoreline Energy International, Nigeria
New Ideas for Infrastructure Development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Tarun Khanna, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School, USA; Chair, Global Agenda Council on Emerging Multinationals
Private Sector must Catalyze Public Goods Investments in Developing Countries

Uday Khemka - Vice-Chairman, SUN Group, United Kingdom
Leveraging International Financial Flows for Climate Change

Silvana Koch-Mehrin, Member of the European Parliament, Brussels
Truning the EU into a democracy – and why it is important for the world

Tom Lembong - Director, Quvat Management, Singapore

Aaron McCormack - Chief Executive Officer, BT Conferencing, BT Plc, USA
Shaping the Post-Crisis Corporation

Sebastian Palla - President, Union of Pension Funds, Argentina
Effects of the currrent crisis: Parallelism between the current international crisis and the situation in Argentina

Sandeep P. Parekh - Visiting Associate Faculty, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India
The role of emerging economies in resolving the financial and economic crisis

Kate Roberts - Vice-President and Founder, YouthAIDS/PSI, USA
The Challenge Facing Children in the Post-Crisis Economy

Susan Sabanci Dinçer - Chairman and Executive Board Member, Akbank TAS, Turkey
Sustainable value creation

Saif Al-Islam al-Qadhafi, President, Gaddafi International Foundation for Charity Associations, Libya
Reforming the way we make decisions on global issues: “Collective Management” by Government, Civil Society and the Private Sector

Zainabl Salbi, President and Chief Executive Officer, Women for Women International, USA

Sunette Steyn - Programme Manager, Murray and Roberts Chair on Collaborative Governance and Accountability, University of South Africa (UNISA), South Africa
The Global Financial Crisis – a call for improved Collaboration, Governance and Accountability

Khaldoon H. Tabaza - Chairman and Managing Director, Riyada Ventures, Jordan
From globalization to cross-border integration

Kohey Takashima - Chief Executive Officer, Oisix, Japan
Theme: Food Security (especially future of agriculture)