Video: Ngaire Woods on the biggest challenge of 2015

Feb 5, 2015

Ngaire Woods

Dean, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford

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Probably the biggest challenge of 2015 is a global, geopolitical one, getting governments to actually talk to one another. I think the best thing I’ve heard at Davos this year was John Hickenlooper saying, ‘If you really want to persuade someone else, listen harder.’ I think that’s a great message for governments.

Watch a clip of Ngaire Woods, dean of the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, at the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting 2015 in Davos above, and catch up with her full session on global governance, here.

Image: Kishore Mahbubani, John Baird, Ngaire Woods, Volkan Bozkir, Joseph S. Nye Jr, are captured at ‘Forum Debate: A Multipolar World?’ at the Annual Meeting 2015 of the World Economic Forum at the congress centre in Davos, January 23, 2015. WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM/swiss-image.ch/Photo Michael Buholzer

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