Our Initiatives, Communities and Key Insights

The centres convene diverse groups to share knowledge, accelerate action and spark innovation and ideas to tackle the world’s most pressing challenges. The following list describes the multistakeholder initiatives and communities that are currently operating to effect change.

Centre for Advanced Manufacturing and Supply Chains

Chief Operating, Supply Chain and Procurement Officers Community: A network of over 90 C-suite executives across 15 industries, working to anticipate and navigate complexity in global manufacturing and supply chains.

Circular Transformation of Industries: Promotes a sustainable and resilient industrial economy through widespread adoption of circularity principles.

Frontline Talent of the Future: Drives societal and economic outcomes by deploying solutions to attract, skill and retain talent in manufacturing and supply chains.

Future-Proofing Global Value Chains: Country Preparedness and Beyond: Explores the latest trends affecting global value chains and identifies opportunities and best practices to inform next-generation manufacturing strategies, value chain configurations and industrial policies.

Global Lighthouse Network: Recognizes top performers in tech-enabled industrial transformation, creating a shared learning platform across 189 facilities and value chains that use digital technologies to boost productivity, resilience, sustainability, talent and customer focus.

Global Network of Advanced Manufacturing Hubs: Connects regional manufacturing ecosystems to share insights, scale innovation and promote global collaboration, ensuring locally tailored responses to global industry shifts and emerging technologies.

Industry Net Zero Accelerator: Supports industries to accelerate their decarbonization journey to achieve net-zero emissions by or before 2050 by addressing the “how-to” questions of operationalizing decarbonization commitments across the value chain.

Lighthouse Operating System: Aims to develop a responsible operating model for industry, co-designed by leaders and rooted in lean, digital and sustainable principles.

New Generation of Industry Leaders: Connects emerging leaders to build and accelerate responsible industry transformation while inspiring the next generation with the future frontiers of industry.

Next Frontier of Operations: Explores the transformative potential of frontier technologies and their role in reshaping industrial operations and redefining human-machine collaboration.

Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Sustainability Accelerator: Supports manufacturing small and medium-sized enterprises and mid-sized firms in advancing their sustainability goals while staying competitive, offering actionable roadmaps and mapping available support from public and private sectors.

Centre for Cybersecurity

AI & Cyber Initiative: Advances knowledge that supports organizations in managing the cybersecurity risks associated with the adoption of AI technologies.

Chief Information Security Officer Community: Provides a platform for cybersecurity leaders to exchange insights and best practices on the most pressing cybersecurity challenges.

Cyber Resilience in Industries: Develops forward-looking solutions and promotes effective practices to enhance cyber resilience across industry ecosystems.

Global Cybersecurity Outlook: Examines the cybersecurity trends that will affect economies and societies in the year to come. Seeks to elevate cybersecurity from a technical issue to a strategic leadership imperative and promote priority actions to address growing cyber risks.

Partnership Against Cybercrime: Drives public-private collaboration and insight-sharing to develop and implement approaches to disrupt cybercrime.

Centre for Energy and Materials

Accelerating New Nuclear: Facilitates alignment and a shared vision among global nuclear ecosystem stakeholders on the priorities and actions needed to accelerate new nuclear deployment.

AI Energy Impact: Challenges and Opportunities: Drives sustainable AI adoption by optimizing energy use and fostering innovations that accelerate the energy transition.

Association of Southeast Asian Nations Leaders for Just Energy Transitions: Strengthens the intra-regional and international cooperation required to accelerate South-East Asia’s energy transition and decarbonization.

Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Energy and Materials Centres: Drives energy transition and industrial transformation at country and regional levels by strengthening global-to-local collaboration and accelerating the deployment of Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies.

Coal to Clean: Accelerates the early retirement and repurposing of coal-fired power plants in emerging economies through scaling innovative financing and technological solutions.

Energy Transition Index: Benchmarks 118 countries on the performance of their energy systems, focusing on equity, environmental sustainability, energy security and their transition readiness.

Future of Clean Fuels: Accelerates the speed and scale of the clean fuels transition by working with corporate leaders, policy-makers and civil society to provide insights and facilitate dialogue and collaboration.

International Energy Community China: Accelerates the energy transition in China by sharing insights and promoting collaboration among state-owned enterprises, governments and multinational companies.

International Energy Community China: Accelerates the energy transition in China by sharing insights and promoting collaboration among state-owned enterprises, governments and multinational companies.

Net-Zero Industry Tracker: Accelerates the speed and scale of industrial and company transitions by monitoring the pace of decarbonization of eight hard-to-abate sectors that account for 40% of global greenhouse gas emissions.

Power System Transformation: Accelerates power system transformation to meet growing energy demand, creating a power system that drives economic growth while advancing affordability, sustainability and energy security.

Responsible Renewables Infrastructure: Accelerates the deployment of renewable energy infrastructure by promoting approaches that can not only help mitigate risks but can also create business value and deliver broader benefits for society, economies and the environment.

Securing Minerals for the Energy Transition: Reduces the projected imbalance between critical minerals supply and demand for the energy transition by aligning incentives to ensure availability, affordability and sustainability of minerals.

Transitioning Industrial Clusters: Supports collaboration and the development of a shared vision among co-located companies and public institutions, with the goals of driving economic growth, employment and reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.

Centre for Financial and Monetary Systems

Chief Financial Officer Community: Convenes chief financial officers across sectors to accelerate corporate action and address pressing strategic issues. This community offers opportunities to share insights and gain knowledge in key areas like technological innovation, sustainable finance and global economic strategies.

Financial and Monetary Systems Centre Advisory Council: Allows the centre to strengthen its relationships with potential champions and thought leaders, and provides the opportunity for members to discuss key topics with a diverse group of peers, ultimately supporting a centre agenda that is relevant for their organizations.

Financing the Food Systems Transformation: Seeks to identify the role that financial institutions can play to transform food systems and detail interventions across the food value chain.

Financing the Nature Positive Transition: Aims to address the challenges financial institutions face in taking nature-positive financing decisions.

Financing the Transition to a Net-Zero Future: Aims to scale the mobilization of capital towards critical decarbonization technologies and strategies required to transition the global economy to net-zero emissions.

First Movers Coalition – Finance Pillar: Engages financial institutions to define their enabling role to support carbon offtakers.

Future of Blockchain and Digital Assets: Aims to ensure equity, interoperability, transparency and trust in the governance of distributed ledger technologies, and to accelerate the necessary changes for this technology to reach its full potential.

Future of Financial Services in China and Beyond: Brings together large Chinese and international financial institutions to strategically address important issues such as capital market maturation and liberalization, the financial system’s role in enabling domestic growth and emerging regulatory trends, among others.

Future of Financing: Private Credit: Promotes action in support of productive and resilient financial markets which provide solutions – whether public-, private- or bank-originated – to meet the needs of individuals, financial institutions and corporates, and governments.

Global Retail Investing: Aims to improve retail investor participation in capital markets, promote responsible investing across the ecosystem and ultimately strengthen individuals’ financial resilience.

Longevity Economy: Financial Resilience for Every Generation: Addresses critical demographic issues by convening a community of diverse stakeholders to advance new thinking in the retirement ecosystem and promote financial innovations and policy recommendations for a more resilient, equitable and sustainable longer life.

Navigating Global Financial System Fragmentation: Convenes a diverse set of stakeholders to define a set of norms, rules, and principles required to safeguard the integrity of the global financial system during a period of rising geopolitical complexity.

Sustainable Finance Community: Enables the transformation of the global financial system and architecture to encourage climate and nature action and reinforce long-term value creation and economic growth.

Technology, Innovation and Systemic Risk: Brings together key stakeholders to explore evolving technology-driven risks to the financial system and identify collective approaches to mitigating these risks, such that the full benefits of innovations within the financial system may be realized.

The Future of Global Fintech: Responds to current public- and private-sector needs for more robust data and empirical evidence on fintech that can inform market development and facilitate evidence-based regulation.

The Future of Venture Capital: Aims to identify collaborative opportunities to strengthen the global venture capital ecosystem, creating an environment that fuels innovation worldwide.

Venture Capital Community: Supports healthy entrepreneurship ecosystems by addressing shared challenges and opportunities facing the global venture capital industry.

Women in Finance: Convenes senior women leaders across financial services, investing, real estate and government to explore shifting industry priorities and identify action-oriented solutions that can be amplified by the Forum.

Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution

AI Energy Impact: Challenges and Opportunities: Collaborates across industries to: 1) assess AI’s energy consumption and management strategies, 2) showcase how AI can accelerate the energy transition, and 3) identify enablers for AI-driven energy opportunities.

AI for Agricultural Innovation: Advances inclusive transformation of agriculture through pilot-testing and scaling up digital technologies throughout the value chain.

AI for India 2030: Aims to co-design essential AI blueprints and governance mechanisms to contribute to a globally harmonized understanding of responsible AI.

AI Governance Alliance: Brings together over 500 organizations from industry, government, academia and civil society to build the global trajectory of AI.

AVIATE (Advanced Air Mobility): Promotes the safe, sustainable and equitable adoption of advanced air mobility technologies throughout industries and sectors.

Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Network: Collaborates closely with Forum initiatives to drive inclusive and sustainable technology pilots and strategic partnerships across regions.

Chief Digital and Technology Officers Community: Unites over 100 C-level leaders from various industries to champion inclusive, trustworthy and sustainable digital transformation in both business and society.

Connected Future Initiative: Advances open, secure and interoperable digital infrastructure to support inclusive and trusted AI-enabled societies and the future of the internet.

Digital Trust Initiative: Promotes shared principles and practices to strengthen accountability, transparency and user agency in the design and use of emerging technologies.

DRIVE-A: Vehicle Autonomy: Advances the responsible development and deployment of automated vehicles through collaboration, standards and policy engagement.

Earth Observation: Drives increased adoption of Earth observation data to generate value for businesses, people and planet.

EDISON Alliance: Mobilizes commitments and partnerships to improve access to digital solutions in education, health and finance.

Global Coalition for Digital Safety: Addresses online harms by developing policy frameworks, content standards and digital literacy solutions to create safer digital environments.

Global Commercial Bioeconomy Coalition: Generates strategic insights into the technology-driven bioeconomy and promotes responsible adoption and commercial transformation.

Global Government Technology Network: Engages business and government to identify opportunities and fast-track the digital transformation of public services.

Innovator Communities: Involves 400 leading start-ups and scale-ups who are at the forefront of technological and business model innovation.

Quantum Economy Network: Unlocks the potential of quantum technologies by promoting an inclusive and scalable quantum ecosystem.

Space Technology Network: Understands the potential of space sector technology applications, supports their development and addresses the associated challenges and emerging risks.

Technology for Climate Adaptation: Uses advanced technology to combat the impacts of climate change.

Technology Convergence Initiative: Identifies and advances high-impact combinations of emerging technologies to transform industries and inform strategic decision-making.

Technology Convergence Report: Offers leaders a strategic lens – the 3C Framework – to help navigate the combinatorial innovation era.

Top 10 Emerging Technologies: Highlights the technologies set to positively impact society within the next three to five years. The report provides a qualitative assessment of each technology’s potential impact on people and the planet.

Centre for Health and Healthcare

BRIDGE (Biosecurity Readiness through Intelligence, Data and Global Engagement): Catalyses cross-sectoral networks that integrate diverse data to enhance predictive outbreak monitoring and public health interventions.

Chief Health Officers Community: Advances workforce well-being globally through cross-industry collaboration among senior executives overseeing workforce health in partner organizations.

Climate and Health: In collaboration with the Centre for Nature and Climate, facilitates engagement with and among partners to address the impact of climate patterns on human health by enhancing advocacy and visibility and developing adaptation and preparedness strategies.

Digital Healthcare Transformation: Promotes collaboration across regions, sectors and industries to develop holistic AI and data-enabled solutions that improve outcomes, expand access and increase efficiency in healthcare.

Global Alliance for Women’s Health: Drives progress in women’s health by advancing global efforts, unlocking investment and accelerating research and innovation.

Health and Healthcare China: Provides strategic guidance for the Centre for Health and Healthcare’s regional engagement, highlighting key issues in China and identifying opportunities for regional contributions to the centre’s global initiatives.

Health for All: Advances a healthier world by mobilizing executive leadership and commitment across sectors and regions to prioritize health access within organizational strategy and purpose.

Healthy Workforces: Empowers organizations and communities to prioritize and advance physical and mental health, encouraging a more productive, resilient and healthy global workforce.

New Frontiers of Nutrition: Convenes leading-edge disruptors and partners from the private and public sectors to develop transformative solutions to elevate nutrition as a key enabler of societal resilience.

UCARE (Unified Coalition for the AMR Response): Supports innovation and access to antimicrobials, raises antimicrobial resistance awareness, promotes sustainable agriculture, and encourages cross-sector collaboration and funding to tackle antimicrobial resistance.

Centre for Nature and Climate

1000 Ocean Startups: Unites the global ecosystem of incubators, accelerators, competitions, venture capital firms and family offices supporting ocean-positive start-ups.

1t.org – Trillion Trees Platform: Serves the global movement to conserve, restore and grow a trillion trees, in support of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration.

2030 Water Resources Group: Provides water stewardship through a public-private partnership co-hosted with the World Bank, including accelerator programmes with more than 1,000 partners, catalysing $1 billion in financing.

Airports of Tomorrow: Convenes global leaders from the airport ecosystem to accelerate the transition to sustainable and resilient airports.

Alliance for Clean Air: Improves air quality in their value chains, embeds action on air pollution into climate change mitigation strategies and moves towards a tipping point where health is at the heart of climate action.

Alliance of CEO Climate Leaders: Drives data-driven corporate climate leadership and engagements with policy-makers to deliver the transition to a net-zero economy on a Paris-aligned pathway.

Blue Carbon Action Partnership: Aims to catalyse high-level conversations, unlock finance and drive meaningful change to conserve and restore blue carbon ecosystems, such as mangroves, seagrasses and salt marshes.

Carbon Capture and Utilization: Identifies and accelerates breakthroughs in industrial carbon capture and utilization technologies.

CEOs for Nature: Convenes over 70 companies focused on accelerating the business transition to nature-positive, with a strategic focus on soil health, water resilience and nature capital.

Champions for Nature: Leads the transition to a nature-positive global economy by 2030.

Chief Sustainability Officers Community: Brings together over 180 chief sustainability leaders from more than 24 industries and 38 countries to gain strategic foresight, exchange ideas with leaders and experts and nurture interaction with peers in different sectors and regions.

Circular Transformation of Industries: In collaboration with the Centre for Advanced Manufacturing and Supply Chains, seeks to accelerate the adoption of circular practices across industrial ecosystems to create a more resilient, efficient and sustainable global economy.

Circularity in the Built Environment: Spotlights leading solutions for a circular transformation of the built environment. By focusing on closing material loops, cutting emissions and facilitating cross-industry collaboration, the initiative seeks to drive innovation and sustainability across the built environment.

Circularity of Critical Minerals: Aims to build a coalition to increase the circularity of minerals for the energy transition.

Climate Adaptation: Works to close the global climate adaptation gap by driving action from businesses, financiers and governments. It seeks to accelerate investment in climate risk reduction and develop markets for adaptation goods and services to manage the growing challenges of a changing climate.

Climate and Health: In collaboration with the Centre for Health and Healthcare, facilitates engagement with and among partners to address the impact of climate change on human health by enhancing advocacy and visibility and developing adaptation and preparedness strategies.

Climate Finance Innovation: Aims to unlock climate funding through an integrated climate finance toolkit that connects pricing mechanisms, market development and private capital mobilization to accelerate net-zero transitions.

Climate Governance Initiative: Mobilizes and engages board members on climate action, reaching more than 200,000 non-executive directors. It also includes a Climate Governance community of experts to guide thought leadership and insights.

Consumers Beyond Waste initiative: Brings together a vibrant community of leading consumer companies and public sector actors who are collectively accelerating a systems transition towards reusable packaging models to achieve a world free of plastic pollution.

Earth Decides Community: Works with experts, convenors and storytellers to translate scientific knowledge, grassroots evidence and innovative convening approaches into credible and appropriate action at scale.

First Movers Coalition: Harnesses the collective purchasing power of companies to send a clear demand signal to promote the expansion of critical technologies essential for the net-zero transition, focusing on the heavy-emitting industrial sectors, as well as carbon removal technologies.

First Movers Coalition for Food: Brings together food system leaders to accelerate the transition to low-emission agri-food commodities.

Food Innovation Hubs: Supports Food Innovation Hubs and builds Food Action Alliances to make food systems more nutritious, resilient and environmentally sustainable.

Friends of Ocean Action: Fast-tracks ambitious, scalable and equitable solutions to support ocean health and the sustainable blue economy.

Giving to Amplify Earth Action: Seeks to convene, incubate, scale and mainstream 4Ps (public, private, philanthropic partnerships) for climate and nature. Through catalytic philanthropic capital, it unlocks the corporate and government funding needed for climate and nature innovations to scale at speed.

Global Plastic Action Partnership: Engages over 2,000 leaders from government, business and civil society to turn commitments into action and drive a circular, sustainable and inclusive plastics economy.

Investor Policy Dialogue on Deforestation: Aims to halt deforestation in some of the world’s most biodiverse, carbon-absorbing biomes.

Nature Action Agenda: Engages businesses and policy-makers to accelerate industry transitions and unlock finance for a nature-positive economy by generating insights, catalysing leadership and identifying solutions for scale in priority sectors.

Nature Positive Transitions: Helps businesses and financial institutions understand their relationship with nature, and how to take action to reduce the impacts they have on nature within their operations and value chains, build resilience, and identify nature-related opportunities.

Net-zero Opportunities for Value-chain Action in China: Raises awareness and drives action for value chain net-zero transition in China by working with a multistakeholder group of public and private sectors to identify opportunities and levers, catalyse innovation and partnerships and promote the enabling environment.

Ocean 20: Promotes action by leading global companies, G20 countries and civil society voices to make and realize commitments to blue food, blue carbon and a sustainable blue economy.

Road Freight Zero: Accelerates the deployment of zero-emission fleets and supporting infrastructure through a pioneering coalition of over 70 first movers across the road freight value chain.

Steering Group on Natural Capital: Guides the Forum’s work in this field in 2024, consisting of 10-12 trusted advisers and experts working on natural capital in various capacities.

The Adaptation and Resilience Network: Brings together senior leaders from the public and private sectors, providing them with knowledge, opportunities, and a collaborative community to advance and scale novel adaptation and resilience projects.

The Circular Innovation Ecosystem: Supports early-stage circular economy start-ups, helping them scale solutions that enable sustainable systems.

The Nature Markets & Biodiversity Credits Initiative: Aims to support nature markets rooted in integrity, transparency and inclusion, benefitting people and planet through cross-sector collaboration and corporate engagement via the 15-member Frontrunners Coalition.

Tropical Forest Alliance: Catalyses the power of collective action to drive the world’s transition to deforestation- and conversion-free agricultural commodities.

Water Futures: Addresses emerging systemic water challenges by encouraging public-private collaboration and advancing the global action on water through multistakeholder dialogue, thought leadership and partnerships.

Water Futures Community: Provides a space for Forum constituents active in water to connect, exchange ideas, and stay updated on related projects, webinars, meetings and news.

Centre for the New Economy and Society

Future of Growth Initiative:

Chief Economists Community: Explores the near-term economic landscape and provides inputs into the Chief Economists Outlook periodic reports.

Future of Growth Accelerators: Supports country-level action and drives tools and frameworks adoption around economic development.

Future of Growth Champions: Leaders supporting the recalibration of the global conversation on growth and a more dynamic and better-balanced pathway to economic prosperity.

Future of Growth Report: Provides a new framework to support economic policies, embedding innovation, inclusion, sustainability and resilience as key pillars.

Global Economic Futures: Insights-based consultation series supporting businesses in deciphering the economic landscape and navigating future economic scenarios.

Global Risks Initiative:

Chief Risk Officers Community: Works to strengthen their collective capacity to respond to current and future shocks and adapt business strategies. Publishes an annual Chief Risks Officers Outlook consolidating the top-of-mind views.

Global Risks Consortium: Leaders committed to using foresight and finding solutions to build resilience around current and future geopolitical, economic, societal, environmental and technological trends.

Global Risks Report: Building on 20 years of data and insights, annually explores and ranks the most severe risks the world faces over the next decade, across short-, medium- and long-term horizons, with an approach informed by the Global Risks Advisory Board.

Future of Jobs Initiative:

Chief People Officers Community: Provides a space for peer learning, exchange and coalition-building around common challenges and impact opportunities.

Future of Jobs Champions: Leaders across industries and geographies committed to building the jobs of tomorrow and promoting good jobs for all.

Future of Jobs Report: Explores how jobs and skills will evolve over the next five years, with a specific focus on the impact of AI on jobs and industrial policy and geopolitical divisions on labour markets.

Good Work Alliance: Champions good work practices among its members and collaborates to scale up individual efforts towards more resilient, equitable and human-centric workplaces, addressing emerging industry talent needs and labour market disruptions and catalysing commitments among its members.

Jobs Accelerators: Supports country-level action and drives the adoption of tools and frameworks around the future of jobs and good jobs creation.

Reskilling Revolution:

Chief Learning Officers Community: Exchanges and drives action on skills and learning in the workplace through the participation of organization leaders responsible for learning content and delivery.

Education 4.0 Alliance: Underpinned by the Education 4.0 framework and learning taxonomy, the alliance advances the development and adoption of tools, frameworks and guidelines to better integrate AI and other frontier technologies into education systems worldwide.

Education Industry Community: Supports long-term, sustainable industry growth with a focus on industry impact and working together to solve common challenges.

Future Skills Alliance: Enables individuals, with the help of skills and learning providers, to enter and remain in the labour market, facilitating skills-first talent practices and promoting a culture of reskilling and continuous learning.

Reskilling Revolution Champions: Provides global guidance and ambassadorship for the initiative’s goal of empowering one billion people with better education, skills and economic opportunity by 2030.

Skills and Education Accelerators: Supports country-level action and drives the adoption of tools and frameworks around reskilling and new education models.

Global Gender Parity Sprint:

Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officers Community: Facilitates peer exchange to deepen understanding of how to tackle exclusion, bias and discrimination based on race, gender and other forms of human diversity.

Future of DEI Network: Brings together a growing and diverse network of experts, practitioners and the private sector. Through the publication of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) Lighthouses, it expands the availability of DEI data, solutions and analysis, and advances a vision of renewed economic growth and resilience grounded in equity and inclusion.

Gender Parity Accelerators: Supports country-level action and drives the adoption of tools and frameworks around gender parity.

Global Gender Parity Sprint Champions: Leaders sharing experiences and shaping a common vision to accelerate economic gender parity by 2030 as a basis for economic resilience, innovation and growth.

Global Gender Gap Report: Annually benchmarks countries on their progress towards gender parity, identifying areas of priority globally and nationally.

Equitable Transition Initiative:

Accelerating an Equitable Transition insight series: Collects new data and designs frameworks, tools and guidelines for businesses and policy-makers to inform the work of the alliance.

Equitable Transition Accelerators: Supports country-level action and drives the adoption of tools and frameworks around advancing an equitable green transition.

Equitable Transition Alliance: Multistakeholder coalition of leaders championing a new socioeconomic agenda for the green transition and co-designing actionable solutions and insights. Aims to ensure that the policies, investments and business strategies driving the net-zero transformation are designed and implemented to address the economic needs of workers and consumers.

National Accelerators Network:

Focusing on selected geographies, uses unique insight and the centre’s global platform to identify, scale and accelerate innovative solutions and public-private partnerships to tackle the world’s biggest challenges. With accelerators in more than 30 countries, the network supports more prosperous and inclusive economies and societies, across six impact areas: future of growth, equitable transition, jobs, skills, education and gender parity.

Centre for Regions, Trade and Geopolitics

Accelerators for Inclusive Growth and Economic Transformation: Advances inclusive growth and economic transformation across Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco and Saudi Arabia through national accelerators focused on gender parity, workforce upskilling, small and medium-sized enterprises development, and future market creation, in collaboration with government ministries and leading private-sector partners.

Alliance of CEO Climate Leaders India: Convenes Indian business leaders throughout key industries to accelerate India’s climate action and green transition efforts.

Association of Southeast Asian Nations DEAL: Supports the Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ transformation towards an inclusive and sustainable digital economy.

CEO Action Group for the European Green Deal: Serves as a high-level platform for businesses to step up their work on climatepositive action and demonstrate their commitment to the objectives of the European Green Deal.

Champions for Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ Economic Future: Works to deepen collaboration between leaders from the public and private sectors and help further regional integration.

Chief Legal Officers Community: Engages in discussions on regulatory coherence, risk mitigation and policy development.

Country Strategy Dialogues: Gathers heads of state/senior ministers and business executives to advance discussions on avenues for growth.

Dialogue Series: Labour and Business: Convenes industry executives, labour leaders and experts to promote strategic collaboration, identify shared priorities and drive innovative solutions that support economic transitions across regions and industries.

Digital Trade: Contributes to the growth of inclusive and interconnected digital economies, including through supporting digital economy agreements and AI governance principles.

Diplomacy Dialogues: Supports official diplomatic processes and encourages discussions about addressing regional and global fault lines in meetings of decision-makers and stakeholders.

Faith in Action Community: Hosts dialogues and convenings for leaders on the role of religion, spirituality and shared values in society, multi-faith dialogue and collaboration, and opportunities for integrating faith-based perspectives in addressing global challenges.

Forum Friends of the African Continental Free Trade Area: Brings together more than 60 leaders from the public and private sectors in a formal collaboration with the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) secretariat to support the implementation of the AfCFTA agreement.

Geopolitical Advisory Group: Convenes chief geopolitical officers (or the equivalent corporate position) for discussions with public officials.

Global Alliance for Trade Facilitation: Helps deliver trade facilitation reforms in countries around the world to make trade easier, faster, cheaper and more reliable.

Global Cooperation Barometer: Provides an overview of the state of international collaboration, examining key trends and challenges across political, economic, environmental and social domains.

Global Data Partnership Against Forced Labour: Brings together business and global leaders to advance bold new approaches in harnessing data and accelerating accountability towards the eradication of forced labour in global supply chains.

Global Investment Policy and Practice: Supports digital foreign direct investment (FDI), climate FDI and investment facilitation for development.

Global Supply Resilience Initiative: Promotes resilience through increased visibility in supply chain operations. The initiative involves a pre-competitive consortium of shippers, carriers and technology partners aiming to build system-wide visibility by encouraging data sharing from public and private sources.

Green Trade: Develops strategies for climate competitiveness, explores emerging trade compliance challenges, guides climate foreign direct investment and facilitates circular trade.

High-Level Group on European Strategic Interdependence: Convenes a high-level, multistakeholder group in partnership with the European Council on Foreign Relations to find a middle way for Europe between strategic autonomy and open interdependence on trade, security, climate, migration and tech.

Humanitarian and Resilience Investing Initiative: Mobilizes capital to scale market-driven solutions that measurably benefit and increase the resilience of at-risk and crisis-hit communities.

Indigenous Peoples’ Knowledge and Leadership Network: Integrates Indigenous knowledge and leadership into global discussions, promoting sustainable development, cultural preservation and inclusive growth.

Informal Gathering of World Economic Leaders: Advances progress on global challenges through private dialogues at the highest level.

Inclusive Trade: Works to ensure trade benefits all sections of society and seeks to mitigate trade harms to workers and underserved groups.

Leaders for a Sustainable Middle East and North Africa: Champions pathways for climate-resilient growth in the Middle East and North Africa region by accelerating corporate climate ambition and scaling up the roll-out of low-carbon technologies.

Leaders for European Growth and Competitiveness: Convenes a high-level, multistakeholder group to accelerate Europe’s growth and competitiveness across clean industry and energy infrastructure, emerging technologies and capital markets, while supporting the strategic engagement of the region’s trading partners.

Logistics Emergency Teams: Helps coordinate logistical preparedness and private sector logistical support contributions to humanitarian relief operations.

Partnering Against Corruption Initiative: Leverages a sector-specific approach, acknowledging that challenges and solutions differ across industries. This approach allows the Partnering Against Corruption Initiative Community to create solutions that address industry-specific corruption risks.

Payments to Advance Growth for All: Works to unlock the benefits of digital payments in an open, inclusive and safe manner.

Resilience Consortium: Brings together CEOs, C-suite executives, ministers and leaders of international organizations for high-level convenings aimed at advancing growth and innovation in emerging economies.

Streamlining Services Initiative: Strengthens service sector competitiveness and regulatory frameworks for trade in services.

Trade and Geopolitics: Explores scenarios for how geopolitics will affect trade and investment and how businesses and nations should position themselves for success.

Trade and Investment Leadership Group: Gathers a CEO community that shares insights on the evolving international commercial environment and sets priorities for collaborative action to enhance the trade and investment ecosystem.

Trade, Investment and Development Agency CEO Group: Shares best practices on harnessing trade and investment for local growth and development, and fosters inter-regional collaboration on outbound and inbound trade and investment initiatives.

TradeTech Global: Provides a global community and forum to share best practices, produces an annual TradeTech trends report, offers a regulatory testing sandbox and is an incubator for startups in the trade technology sector.

Centre for Urban Transformation

Davos Baukultur Alliance: Enables vibrant and resilient communities through better planning, design and construction.

Global Experience Alliance: Promotes inclusive, sustainable growth that benefits businesses, local communities and visitors. It also produces the Travel & Tourism Development Index, a strategic benchmarking tool to develop the travel and tourism sector.

G20 Global Smart Cities Alliance: Advances intelligent, practical solutions to tackle the most pressing challenges facing cities and local communities.

Global Innovation and Impact Council: Accelerates the development of groundbreaking solutions and innovations that deliver positive impact for people and planet.

Global New Mobility Coalition: Accelerates safe, clean and inclusive transport systems to empower communities and economies.

Innovation Impact Alliance: Connects innovators and entrepreneurs to new markets and opportunities to stimulate urban regeneration, drive innovation and bolster the resilience of local economies.

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