Radio Davos

An Olympic runner who won his country's first gold medal, an entrepreneur making cooking stoves safer and cleaner in Africa, and a campaigner for women's economic and human rights. 
What do all three have in common? They are among the new cohort of Young Global Leaders, a community of individuals working to solve some of the world's big challenges.
Hosts:
Robin Pomeroy, Ida Jeng Christensen, Head of the Forum of Young Global Leaders
Guests:
Charlot Magayi, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Mukuru Clean Stoves
Kirani James, Olympic Athlete
Trisha Shetty, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, SheSays
Links:
The Forum of Young Global Leaders: https://www.younggloballeaders.org/home
Blog: Next Generation Leadership for a World in Transformation: Driving Dialogue and Action: https://www.weforum.org/publications/next-generation-leadership-for-a-world-in-transformation-driving-dialogue-and-action/
Mukuru Clean Stoves: https://mukurustoves.org/
Earthshot Prize: https://earthshotprize.org/winners-finalists/mukuru-clean-stoves/
Kirani James: https://www.kiranijames.com/
SheSays: https://weareshesays.com/
Related podcasts:
How leaders can fix focus and happiness in an AI Era: Psychologist Jonathan Haidt: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/meet-the-leader/episodes/jonathan-haidt-happiness-focus-habits-ai/
What women's sports reveals about building future leaders: Deloitte's Lara Abrash: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/meet-the-leader/episodes/womens-sports-leadership-skills-gender-gap/
Why one CEO sets 'non-goals' - and what ultramarathons taught him about focus and mental toughness: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/meet-the-leader/episodes/nicholas-thompson-focus-running-ground/
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Katharine Hayhoe is a climate scientist and an evangelical Christian who lives in Texas and knows how to reach out to conservatives who might see climate change as a party political rather than a science-based issue.
Two years after she last spoke to Radio Davos, Prof Hayhoe assesses the rise of climate denialism, particularly on social media, but also the rising awareness of the issue caused by increasingly frequent extreme weather events around the world. 
Links:
World Economic Forum Centre for Nature and Climate: https://initiatives.weforum.org/global-future-council-on-human-science-of-environmental-action/home
Global Future Council on Human Science of Environmental Action: https://initiatives.weforum.org/global-future-council-on-human-science-of-environmental-action/home
Katharine Hayhoe's website: https://katharinehayhoe.com/
Related podcasts:
The Iran oil shock: will it force the world to re-think the future of energy?: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/oil-shocks-hormuz-iran-columbia-energy-exchange-jason-bordoff/
Climate science is clearer than ever. How should companies respond?: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/climate-science-policy-business-response/
What's God got to do with it? The case for faith in an age of AI: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/faith/
How to talk to a climate change sceptic: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/climate-science-katharine-hayhoe/
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"This is the largest oil supply disruption the world has ever seen."
Jason Bordoff of the Center on Global Energy Policy and the Columbia Energy Exchange podcast joins us to explore the potential long-term impacts on global energy systems of the oil shock caused by the Iran war and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
The episode, recorded a few days before the news that the UAE was quitting OPEC, was made in collaboration with the Columbia Energy Exchange podcast: https://www.energypolicy.columbia.edu/series/columbia-energy-exchange/
Links:
Columbia Energy Exchange podcast: https://www.energypolicy.columbia.edu/series/columbia-energy-exchange/
The Iran Shock And the Dangerous Allure of Energy Autarky (Foreign Policy): https://www.foreignaffairs.com/iran/iran-shock
Energy independence could make America more aggressive (Financial Times): https://www.ft.com/content/2c2c6f08-d5c0-41e5-ab0c-1605dba64582?shareType=nongift
Energy Transition Index (World Economic Forum), available from 17 June, 2026: wef.ch/ETI26
What leaders are saying about the renewed geopolitics of energy (World Economic Forum): https://www.weforum.org/stories/2026/04/geopolitics-of-energy-what-leaders-are-saying/
3 lessons on the energy transition in an age of crisis (World Economic Forum): https://www.weforum.org/stories/2026/04/3-lessons-energy-transition-age-of-crisis/
World Economic Forum Centre for Energy and Materials: https://centres.weforum.org/centre-for-energy-and-materials/
Related podcasts:
The rise of industrial policy - why governments are back in the business of business: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/industrial-policy-trade-choke-points/
Welcome to Cold War Two: historian Niall Ferguson on geopolitics in 2026: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/niall-ferguson-geopolitics-cold-war/
"Everything has changed" - Gita Gopinath on the global economy in 2026: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/gita-gopinath-global-economy-2026/
Are we on track for the energy transition? Insights from three CEOs: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/energy-transition-electrification-siemens-aes-envision/
Climate science is clearer than ever. How should companies respond?: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/climate-science-policy-business-response/
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Industrial policy - government intervention in the economy - is on the rise around the world. Is this a new era for global trade, and what will be the impact on economies and international relations?
Speakers:
Erik Peterson, Partner and Managing Director, Global Business Policy Council, Kearney
Lizhi Liu, Assistant Professor, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University
Links:
Forum Stories:
Governments are now economic super actors. What does this mean for business?: https://www.weforum.org/stories/2026/01/governments-economic-actors-the-challenge-for-business/
Four trends to watch as China's industrial policy evolves: https://www.weforum.org/stories/2026/02/china-industrial-policy-four-trends-to-watch/
Resources:
New Industrial Policy Observatory (NIPO): https://globaltradealert.org/reports/new-industrial-policy-observatory-nipo
Further reading:
Kearney: From Globalization to Islandization: https://www.kearney.com/service/global-business-policy-council/article/-/insights/from-globalization-to-islandization
OpenAI: Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age: Ideas to Keep People First: https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/561e7512-253e-424b-9734-ef4098440601/Industrial%20Policy%20for%20the%20Intelligence%20Age.pdf
Chokepoints, American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare, by Edward Fishman: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/726149/chokepoints-by-edward-fishman/
IMF: Industrial Policy Since the Great Financial Crisis: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/wp/issues/2025/10/31/industrial-policy-since-the-great-financial-crisis-570816
NBER: Decoding China's Industrial Policies: https://www.nber.org/papers/w33814
Exporting Automation, Not Just Goods: Evidence from China's Industrial Robot Exports by Zhengrui Cheng, Shiliang Cui, Lizhi Liu: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6399698
Related podcasts:
Superpower rivalry and geopolitics in Trump 2.0: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/geopolitics-lynn-kuok-the-national/
"New era, new mood, new challenges" - historian Adam Tooze on why things will never be the same again: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/adam-tooze-cnbc-china-us-history/
Tariffs, globalization, and democracy, with Harvard economist Dani Rodrik: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/dani-rodrik-economics-globalization-tariffs/
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"We don't live in a stable world anymore. We live in a rapidly changing, turbulent world. And in a dynamic environment, intelligence is not just your ability to think and learn, it's your capacity to rethink and unlearn."
Adam Grant, organizational psychologist, podcaster, and author of the bestseller "Think Again", tells us why we are wrong in many of our assumptions about today's world, and why we would all benefit from tackling our own biases - not least the "I'm-not-biased" bias. 
And he explains why the wrong sorts of people too often get promoted or elected to positions of power.
Adam spoke to Radio Davos at the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting 2026 in Davos, Switzerland.
Links:
Think Again: https://adamgrant.net/book/think-again/
Books Adam mentions:
Factfulness: https://www.gapminder.org/factfulness-book/
The Better Angels of Our Nature: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Better_Angels_of_Our_Nature
Not the End of the World:  https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/145624737-not-the-end-of-the-world
Related podcasts:

ReThinking: Talking people out of hate with Daryl Davis and former neo-Nazi Jeff Schoep: https://podcasts.apple.com/sg/podcast/rethinking-talking-people-out-of-hate-with-daryl/id1346314086?i=1000737195636

Radio Davos: AI can lie, hack and blackmail: Yoshua Bengio on how to tame the "baby tiger" of tech:  https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/yoshua-bengio-honest-ai/
Meet the Leader at 200: Top tips, pivots and lessons learned so far: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/meet-the-leader/episodes/episode-200-top-tips-pivots-lessons-learned/
The questions top Davos leaders are asking to start 2026: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/meet-the-leader/episodes/questions-davos-leaders-are-asking-2026/
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