Davos attendees are packing their snow boots and heading home — or to the slopes — as the 53rd World Economic Forum annual meeting winds down. There were some notable absences; billionaires Bill Gates and George Soros weren’t there, neither was U.S. President Joe Biden. But film director Oliver Stone was, and so was former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, who provided some doomsday scenarios to cheer us up.
Also in today’s edition: A Greta Thunberg stakeout, and chats with royalty and world leaders.
The annual Swiss Alps shindig is done. Today many participants are nursing hangovers or donning skis, but our Vince Chadwick, with a clear head, of course, filed his latest dispatch. Incidentally, this was Vince’s first Davos.
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Helen Murphy
Helen is an award-winning journalist and Senior Editor at Devex, where she edits coverage on global development in the Americas. Based in Colombia, she previously covered war, politics, financial markets, and general news for Reuters, where she headed the bureau, and for Bloomberg in Colombia and Argentina, where she witnessed the financial meltdown. She started her career in London as a reporter for Euromoney Publications before moving to Hong Kong to work for a daily newspaper.
