World Economic Forum’s Martina Gmur

The World Economic Forum (WEF) is the preeminent organization trying its hand at the impossible game of matching business with the greater global good. The WEF global agenda councils (GAC) are an ensemble of stakeholder groups that play an increasing role in identifying and defining issues to go on the agenda of the WEF’s annual main event in Davos, as well as regional events. As the annual GAC summit is hosted in the United Arab Emirates it is also the WEF’s only top-tier event associated with the Gulf region. Executive chatted with GAC chairperson Martina Gmür.  What issues will dominate the GAC summit this year? We have a strong focus on the economy and on what is going to happen in Europe, but there will also be discussions on China and the other emerging markets. One of the big themes will be resource scarcity and related to that, water, food