
The SkillsLink Alliance
Making skills the currency of the labour marketThe SkillsLink Alliance is an ecosystem of partnerships between learning providers, employers and governments designed to operationalize the...
The Centre for the New Economy and Society (CNES) aims to shape prosperous, resilient and equitable economies and societies that create opportunity for all. The Centre creates new insights and develops systems change initiatives across four areas:
Our work impacts the lives and livelihoods of millions of people globally and provides blueprints for scaling best-in-class approaches. Through collaboration, stakeholders deepen their understanding of complex issues, shape new models and standards, and drive scalable, collaborative action for systemic change. The Centre also houses the Forum’s global risks practice, providing risks analysis across a range of topics pertinent to the global agenda.
Making skills the currency of the labour marketThe SkillsLink Alliance is an ecosystem of partnerships between learning providers, employers and governments designed to operationalize the...
Accelerating LGBTI Equality through the Power of Business LeadershipThe Partnership for Global LGBTI Equality (PGLE) is a coalition of organizations committed to leveraging their individu...
The World Economic Forum’s Community of Chief Economists is designed to:Understand the evolving contours of the economy in the context of the pandemic and other unfolding technological, s...
A Peer-to-Peer Community of People Leaders The world’s leading Chief Human Resources Officers (CHROs) from 140 companies, across over 20 different industries, spanning North America, Euro...
The challenges we face today require an economic transformation of depth, scale and speed unmatched by any in human history. The urgency to compress change into meaningful time frames has...
ContextThe World Economic Forum’s New Economy and Society Platform aims to work with its partners to provide better education, skills and jobs to 1 billion people by 2030. The urgency aro...
OverviewThe Partnering for Racial Justice in Business initiative is a global coalition of organizations and their C-suite leaders committed to leveraging their individual and collective p...
Accelerating Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Outcomes The Global Parity Alliance is a cross-industry group of global organizations that are taking holistic action to accelerate diversity,...
Accelerating Disability Inclusion through the Power of Business LeadershipThe World Economic Forum Platform for Shaping the Future of the New Economy and Society aims to close the disabil...
As part of the cross-industry Preparing for the Future of Work initiative, the Advanced Manufacturing Industry Taskforce is high-Level community of Chief Human Resource Officers, policy m...
The World Economic Forum’s New Economy and Society Platform aims to work with its partners to provide better education, skills and economic opportunity to 1 billion people by 2030. The Ed...
A Peer-to-Peer Community of Inclusive LeadersThe world’s leading CDIOs from more than 125 companies, across 20 different industries, spanning North America, Europe, MENA and Asia come tog...
OverviewThe Good Work Alliance is a global, cross-industry initiative for forward-thinking companies, with input from unions and independent experts, to leverage their individual and coll...
Gender parity in education and employment is critical for economic growth and societal cohesion. The World Economic Forum estimates that at the current rate of progress, it will take 267....
OverviewThe Refugee Employment and Employability Initiative builds on the momentum associated with supporting refugees from Ukraine to create a basis for system-wide global support from e...
Innovation is the driver of competitiveness where the world has made least progress. As the Fourth Industrial Revolution unfolds, its benefits remain concentrated to few pockets of excell...
The Jobs ConsortiumThe Jobs Consortium is a coalition of leaders and initiatives promoting productive employment, growth in the jobs of tomorrow, new standards in the workplace and better...
The Fourth Industrial Revolution is creating demand for millions of new jobs, with vast opportunities for fulfilling people’s aspirations and potential. Yet, at present, the dominant tren...
A volatile global economic outlook today is exacerbated by rising inequality and widening polarization impacting the most disadvantaged groups in economies across the world. The global po...
Globalization has created significant opportunities and lifted millions out of poverty, while also driving inequality and economic disruption. With many countries turning inward in search...
As many employers and workers seek a “new normal” after the disruptions of the last few years, there is an opportunity to develop a new vision for the future of work. The Good Work Framew...
There is a unique window of opportunity to invest in Education 4.0: an approach to reimagining education in a way that is inclusive, focuses on a broad range of skills to prepare learners...
The Global Risks Report series tracks global risks perceptions among risk experts and world leaders in business, government, and civil society. It examines risks across five categories: e...
The COVID-19 pandemic – and the ensuing economic disruptions and social and political unrest – has brought to centre stage issues of diversity, equity and inclusion, pressing business lea...
As the COVID-19 crisis continues, there is a widespread and profound realization that we must “build back better and broader”, and an understanding of the great danger, difficulties, and ...
The highly asymmetric impact of the pandemic has reinforced historical inequalities within and between countries and is now giving rise to a highly divergent recovery. Technological chang...
The June edition of the Chief Economists Outlook comes out amid improving aggregate recovery momentum, yet in a profoundly uncertain environment with widely diverging trajectories. Across...
Another generation of women will have to wait for gender parity, according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2021. As the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic continues to...
The approval of several COVID-19 vaccines in late 2020 has brightened public health and economic prospects for 2021. Yet, prior to the onset of the pandemic, the global economy already ha...
In Collaboration with PwC
Building a Common Language for Skills at Work: A Global Taxonomy provides a framework for aligning around a universal language for skills. It synthesizes and builds on existing taxonomies...
In partnership with Marsh McLennan, SK Group and Zurich Insurance Group
The Global Competitiveness Report series has since its first edition aimed to prompt policy-makers beyond short term growth and to aim for long-run prosperity. The 2020 special edition is...
Closing the Skills Gap: Key Insights and Success Metrics provides an overview of learnings from the World Economic Forum’s Closing the Skills Gap 2020 project. It summarizes the endeavour...
Resetting the Future of Work Agenda: Disruption and Renewal in a Post-COVID World presents the experiences and lessons learned from the COVID-19 response of the World Economic Forum’s bro...
The Future of Jobs report maps the jobs and skills of the future, tracking the pace of change. It aims to shed light on the pandemic-related disruptions in 2020, contextualized within a l...
Recovery from the economic downturn attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic calls for an inclusive and sustainable economic transformation capable of economic growth that is conducive to the ...
The simultaneous disruption caused by the COVID-19 crisis in nearly every country around the world has forced societies into a moment of pause and reflection on what is truly of value. Re...
The World Economic Forum, in collaboration with Willis Towers Watson, has published a new white paper, Human Capital as an Asset: An Accounting Framework for to Reset the Value of Talent ...
The COVID-19 crisis and the political, economic, and social disruptions it has caused have exposed the inadequacies of our current economic systems. Amid global concern for lives, livelih...
The Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Toolkit explores the practical opportunities and risks that rapidly emerging technologies represent for diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. The to...
Governments and central banks in the economies most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic have rapidly mobilized to keep their economies on “life support” while societies fight the most drama...
While there currently is a significant focus on the public health and economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the workforce and societal implications are no less profound. The guiding p...
Through new data sources, we can gain unprecedented insights into emerging opportunities for employment in the global economy, and granular understanding of the skill sets needed by profe...
The World Economic Forum has created a new index to measure social mobility, providing a much-needed assessment of the current state of social mobility worldwide.
Digital work/service platforms can offer affordable services to consumers, allow companies and clients greater opportunities to access talent, and provide flexible opportunities for earni...
Understanding the platform economy has been held back in part by a lack of definitional clarity. A new white paper by the World Economic Forum, The Promise of Platform Work: Understanding...
As globalization and rapid advancements in technology continue to transform civic space and the world of work, education systems have grown increasingly disconnected from the realities an...
The new decade opens with a fragile growth outlook, social tensions over the evident polarization of economic outcomes and high levels of uncertainty. There are signs of policy agility an...
The Fourth Industrial Revolution is blurring the lines between people and technology. The impact of those changes on the way people work and businesses produce value spans all industries,...
Unfolding technological developments pose a significant challenge in terms of the depth of economic and social transformation needed for their benefits to be fully realized and equitably ...
As the Fourth Industrial Revolution unfolds, led by advances in technologies such as data science and artificial intelligence, the labour market is again changing in a fundamental fashion...
Building an Effective Ecosystem for ESG’ - a collaboration between the World Economic Forum and its community - seeks to advance the state of environmental, social and governance (ESG) re...
As the Fourth Industrial Revolution impacts skills, tasks and jobs, there is growing concern that both job displacement and talent shortages will impact business dynamism and societal coh...
The qualifications achieved in schools, colleges and universities, the brand of an educational institution or an employer, the social networks of a potential job applicant are all signals...
Unfolding technological developments pose a significant challenge in terms of the depth of economic and social transformation needed for their benefits to be fully realized and equitably ...
Eight Futures of Work: Scenarios and their Implications presents various possible visions of what the future of work might look like by the year 2030. Based on how different combinations ...
As the types of skills needed in the labour market change rapidly, individual workers will have to engage in life-long learning if they are to achieve fulfilling and rewarding careers. Fo...
An Agenda for Leaders to Shape the Future of Education, Gender and Work
An Agenda for Leaders to Shape the Future of Education, Gender and Work
The Arab World faces a conundrum of challenges that relate to its current economic model, the geopolitical tensions that characterize parts of the region, and the global trends whose effe...
Education and work in the Middle East and North Africa region will determine the livelihoods of over 300 million people and drive growth and development for generations to come. As one of...
With more than 60% of its population under the age of 25, sub-Saharan Africa is already the world’s youngest region today – and, by 2030, will be home to more than one-quarter of the worl...
Press release: World Economic Forum, European Investment Bank Urge EU Finance Ministers To Make Inclusive Growth Top Priority
Over the past 10 years, the World Economic Forum has brought together a community of influential leaders committed to addressing the global gender gap with a focus on the economic aspects...
Three major trends are affecting how human capital is developed and deployed around the world.
The May 2022 edition of the Chief Economists Outlook comes out amid extremely high uncertainty about geopolitical developments, the trajectory of the global economy and the next steps for...