Turning crisis into opportunity: How to finance a sustainable recovery

We face a very serious risk of a tale of two cities. The part of the economy that is digital and moving and leaning forward does well and the rest does very poorly.

There is good momentum built, but it is not everywhere and not yet to a point of sustainability to make us all feel like the great reset is happening.

COVID-19, with its severity, spread and speed, shocked the world. It’s possibly the worst we’ve seen since the Great Depression in the 1930s. The pain has been felt all over.

I think we, globally, need to feel the pain of the misfortunate more, whether countries, or communities within countries. We need to do more and try to come together as much as we can to support these countries and communities.

Radical happens more often than we think, it's just that we’re conditioned not to think that we can do it.

We have to be very careful that we don’t lose the opportunity to not just rebuild the past. We have to reinvent business models and what the future of work looks like within that. That gives us the opportunity to think about how we build in sustainability and resilience.

We can’t have a sensible economic response without thinking about the other crises coming down the line. This has been a wake-up call to all of us that these long-tail, black-swan events aren’t actually that unlikely.

I think we have actually learned something post the last financial crisis. This is a terrible time, but you can’t waste the opportunity to send the economy off in the direction you want.