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The much-anticipated World Economic Forum, which in recent years has been known to draw the world’s elite in global economic recovery plans, is set to be held in Davos, Switzerland this year.
By virtue of its name, the World Economic Forum is an independent international organisation committed to improving the state of the world by engaging business, political, academic and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry.
After a two-year hiatus brought on by COVID-19 pandemic, the forum will centre around the topic of working together and restoring trust. It will be the first in person leadership event of such magnitude since the outbreak of COVID-19.
This reflects the continued disruption caused by COVID-19, as well as supply bottlenecks. Pertinent topics such as global growth deceleration from 5.5% to 4.1% will form part of critical points of discussion.
Richard Quest, a British journalist, a highly esteemed news anchor & business editor for CNN International will be reporting live from Davos, Switzerland. Quest began his career as a trainee journalist in 1985 at BBC, joining its financial section in 1987, and moving to New York City in 1989 to become the BBC’s North American business correspondent.
Quest later worked for the BBC from the United States as part of its then-fledgling BBC News 24 channel. He was the business correspondent reporting on, and discussing the world stock market in a regular segment entitled World Business Report usually aired between 2:00 am and 3:00 am (GMT), a programme that he presented alongside Paddy O’Connell. He was also an occasional presenter on the BBC’s early morning Business Breakfast programme.
Quest joined CNN in 2001 for the launch of Business International. Since this time Quest has covered a variety of different events for CNN, amongst others an analysis of the U.S. elections as American Quest and the start of the circulation of euro banknotes and coins on 1 January 2002 and the last official commercial flight of Concorde. He has also headed up CNN’s coverage of several events involving the British Royal Family.
In 2006, Quest turned down an opportunity to join Al Jazeera English news channel, the English language version of Al-Jazeera, “on the grounds that being gay and Jewish might not be suitable”.
