I you know the world in the 21st century faces so many problems which are complicated but complicated because they involve the whole world globalization means that the issues are interdependent with each other across borders so it's a huge enterprise to say how do you deal with that how do you bring together and bring forward new ideas that have both the depths to deal with the technical issues and the breath to deal with all the linkages across the world the World Economic Forum had thought right what we need is global redesign we need to rethink the
way the whole world is organized there's about 80 Global Agenda councils each one has its own issue and brings together about 15 experts drawn from companies governments academia the Global Agenda Council is a fascinating collection of the really bright minds the world's smartest thinkers and experts from around the world from different regions different stakeholder groups and they get together first by telephone teleconference then they come together once a year at the summit when we come together as a summit we can grab experts from other parts of the world from other groups and really get a
better sense of the issue the thing is you can't solve all problems at once and nor can you apply one solution to the mall but as you try to solve each set of problems you've got to recognize and understand what those other circles look like and how they touch on the issues that you're trying to deal with is that interplay between one council and the other on problems which are across the boundaries of the council that is fascinating and very important but one of the things that makes this work as a brainstorming exercise is that
every Agenda Council finds its own way of working and every one of them is actually producing a very different kind of output some are producing programs for activism some are producing very intellectual ideas of footnotes each is coming up with a new way of coming at the problem but they're very different and non-prescriptive it's really that they're an incubator for the kinds of ideas and debates that global leaders discuss at Davos we might see this week some sort of template emerge there are absolute anahi I'm good to see you welcome back to
