Mucahithan Avcioglu
January 22, 2025•Update: January 22, 2025
ISTANBUL
The 55th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) continues with 77 sessions on Wednesday in Davos, Switzerland, under the theme Collaboration for the Intelligent Age.
Wednesday's sessions include discussions on AI governance, global security, trade, economies of ASEAN, Latin America, Middle Eastern and North African countries, as well as peace formula for Ukraine, along with those on Decoding China's Economy: Present and Future, Russia: What Next? and Enlarge to Prosper: Will Europe Grow?
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, Palestine's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Varsen Aghabekian, and Malaysian Premier Anwar Ibrahim are addressing the sessions on Wednesday.
During the sessions, speakers share their assessments of the new policies of the US, the fragmentation resulting from the gradual weakening of global cooperation, trade policies, artificial intelligence and digitalization, clean energy transformation, climate change, monetary policies of central banks, interest rates and inflation.
The Davos summit is set to include around 220 sessions in four days. The first sessions on Tuesday provided the first assessments of the new presidential term in the US and focused on issues such as electric vehicles, clean energy transformation, trade, geopolitics of energy, and global economic growth.
