On my flight to Tokyo last year, headed for the 2017 Global Summit of Women, I mulled over the words of Władysław Bartoszewski, [a Polish politician, social activist, journalist, writer and historian,] which I ended up quoting in my speech. English was of course the common language at this international gathering. Conveniently for me, these […]
This will be a very important meeting – no doubt about it! Why? Well, the list of reasons is long, that’s why. Let me share just a few – those that I think are most important. The origins of the World Economic Forum (WEF) go back nearly fifty years. The issues discussed during those annual […]
It is hard to believe it today: in the mid-90’s there were people who were able to predict that in a matter of a few years no one will remember what life looked like before e-commerce platforms. Those who can’t remember those days would be advised to imagine a world in which the internet is […]
The securities market is the beating heart of any economy. All capital investments, whatever description they may go by, end up on the securities market. No Wonder. It is the only place where money, in the literal sense, makes money. Sounds trivial? Maybe, but not for everyone – it seems to me. How many […]
Recently I remembered a great British comedy film made in 1949 by the famous Ealing Studios – Passport to Pimlico. And even though Passport to Pimlico, as in the title, sounds as puzzling as say Passport to the City Centre, it captures perfectly the essence of the story in which a part of central London […]
How fortunate the world is not black and white and, provided we don’t work for the media, we don’t have to look at every event in terms of an incredible miracle or unmitigated disaster! Britain’s exit from the European Union is getting bad press up and down Europe. And rightly so! Contraction of the European […]
I have very good news for all of you: contrary to what you might have expected by following the news, the global economy is doing well and everything seems to suggest we can make optimistic forecasts for the future. If the thought that – global economy aside – we certainly cannot say the same about […]
There are sports disciplines where everything is more or less clear. For example, track and field: the winner is the first athlete to cross the finishing line, jump over the highest-placed bar, throw a strangely-shaped object furthest. Citius, altius, fortius, says an olympic motto – faster, higher, stronger. If only everything in the world was […]
Here is one to restore your confidence and a feeling of safety. You wouldn’t drive without a seatbelt, would you? Especially when you’re driving on a bumpy road. That’s why I got annoyed at Martin Wolf of Financial Times. He got me so annoyed in fact that, despite my firm resolution not to comment on […]
I had seen too much in life to believe the pictures on the Internet … … and yet the pictures mesmerized me. I would close my eyes on the plane and I’d be looking at swimming pools where the water surface appeared to meet a cliff’s edge, set in hillsides covered with a tropical jungle […]
