Centre for the New Economy and Society

Projects

The Jobs ConsortiumThe Jobs Consortium is a coalition of leaders and initiatives promoting productive employment, growth in the jobs of tomorrow, new standards in the workplace and better wages for all. With increased...

OverviewThe Refugee Employment and Employability Initiative builds on the momentum associated with supporting refugees from Ukraine to create a basis for system-wide global support from employers for refugees that ext...

A Peer-to-Peer Community of People Leaders The world’s leading Chief Human Resources Officers (CHROs) from 140 companies, across over 20 different industries, spanning North America, Europe, MENA and Asia come togethe...

The World Economic Forum’s Community of Chief Economists is designed to:Understand the evolving contours of the economy in the context of the pandemic and other unfolding technological, social and political developmen...

The Fourth Industrial Revolution is creating demand for millions of new jobs, with vast opportunities for fulfilling people’s aspirations and potential. Yet, at present, the dominant trend and narrative remains one of...

Accelerating Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Outcomes The Global Parity Alliance is a cross-industry group of global organizations that are taking holistic action to accelerate diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&...

OverviewThe Good Work Alliance is a global, cross-industry initiative for forward-thinking companies, with input from unions and independent experts, to leverage their individual and collective power towards building ...

Making skills the currency of the labour marketThe SkillsLink Alliance is an ecosystem of partnerships between learning providers, employers and governments designed to operationalize the Reskilling Revolution and shi...

OverviewThe Partnering for Racial Justice in Business initiative is a global coalition of organizations and their C-suite leaders committed to leveraging their individual and collective power to build equitable and ju...

A Peer-to-Peer Community of Inclusive LeadersThe world’s leading CDIOs from more than 125 companies, across 20 different industries, spanning North America, Europe, MENA and Asia come together in monthly virtual meeti...

The challenges we face today require an economic transformation of depth, scale and speed unmatched by any in human history. The urgency to compress change into meaningful time frames has forced governments into actio...

ContextThe World Economic Forum’s New Economy and Society Platform aims to work with its partners to provide better education, skills and jobs to 1 billion people by 2030. The urgency around this agenda has been given...

Gender parity in education and employment is critical for economic growth and societal cohesion. The World Economic Forum estimates that at the current rate of progress, it will take 267.6 years to close the economic ...

Accelerating Disability Inclusion through the Power of Business LeadershipThe World Economic Forum Platform for Shaping the Future of the New Economy and Society aims to close the disability inclusion gap by driving b...

Innovation is the driver of competitiveness where the world has made least progress. As the Fourth Industrial Revolution unfolds, its benefits remain concentrated to few pockets of excellence and innovation ecosystems...

The World Economic Forum’s New Economy and Society Platform aims to work with its partners to provide better education, skills and economic opportunity to 1 billion people by 2030. The Education 4.0 Alliance—a communi...

As part of the cross-industry Preparing for the Future of Work initiative, the Advanced Manufacturing Industry Taskforce is high-Level community of Chief Human Resource Officers, policy makers, experts, Technology Pio...

Accelerating LGBTI Equality through the Power of Business LeadershipThe Partnership for Global LGBTI Equality (PGLE) is a coalition of organizations committed to leveraging their individual and collective advocacy to ...