Thomas Crampton

Social Media in China and across Asia

World Economic Forum

Tackling The World’s Leadership Deficit

Mar 2, 2011

Tackling The World’s Leadership Deficit

The world, as we all know, faces a massive leadership deficit (see video below). This has become painfully clear in recent weeks across the Arab world, but has long been the case. Faced with crisis in issues of health, income disparity and climate change (to name a few) we now need great leadership more than

Needed: “An Inconvenient Truth” for Water

Sep 14, 2010

Needed: “An Inconvenient Truth” for Water

Watch out Al Gore! I heard a fascinating presentation from the Chairman of Nestlé, Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, on the global water crisis. Not since seeing Gore present an early version of the presentation that became An Inconvenient Truth have I seen an environmental issue presented in such a compelling and urgent manner. For context, this was

Enric Sala: Don’t Eat Tigers of the Ocean

Feb 14, 2010

On land, do we eat tigers and lions? No, of course not. In the oceans, however, many of us often do. Sharks, tuna and similar ocean hunters play an important role by maintaining the health of the ecosystem. Saving them from human consumption is an obsession by National Geographic Ocean Explorer Enric Sala. I have

Youth in the Middle East

May 15, 2009

Youth in the Middle East

The future of youth in the Middle East is a fascinating topic of tremendous importance for the Middle East and also the world. The statistics are quite shocking. Below a few notes from preparations for a workshop I am running at the World Economic Forum meeting in Jordan. These are taken from an excellent recent

Matthew Bishop

Feb 16, 2009

Matthew Bishop

Author of Philanthrocapitalism and the less interestingly titled Essential Economics, Matthew Bishop is Chief Business Writer and US Business Editor of The Economist. Some years ago he was honoured as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. It is a little known fact that 2005 was the United Nations International Year of Microcredit,

Lera Auerbach on the meaning of music

Apr 7, 2008

The morning after I heard her in concert, I had a chance to do a video quizzing composer, pianist and poet Lera Auerbach about the meaning of music. As a non-musical person, this quest for the meaning of music has become a bit of a crusade. I asked the same of the Chinese composer Chou

Outblaze CEO and founder Yat Siu describes his Hong Kong-based (but global) Internet company

Feb 11, 2008

It is hard to fit the sprawling Outblaze empire into one sentence (or YouTube video), so here’s two videos and a few sentences to describe the company founded in Hong Kong by Yat Siu. Starting life in 1998 as an email service provider for ISPs around the world (Currently 40 million users), Outblaze has branched

Van Jones: Corn ethanol swindles the poor by increasing the price of food

Dec 19, 2007

Van Jones, a green economy activist and founder of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, describes how US corn ethanol subsidies have created a dangerous perversion of the food prices. The great ethanol swindle: Ethanol is supposed to saves the environment by offering a renewable source of energy (corn and sugar), but the truth

Jennifer Corriero on how TakingITglobal.org encourages youth activists

Dec 10, 2007

Jennifer Corriero, co-founder of TakingITglobal.org, describes innovations to their Online service that helps young activists The site, claiming hundreds of thousands of visitors each month from countries around the world, aims to help students and young people improve the world through organized community action. Activist toolkit TakingITGlobal gives advice and offers online tools for organizing

YGL program at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government

Dec 9, 2007

In this video, Leslie Maasdorp and I speak about the program we just attended that Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government created for the World Economic Forum‘s Young Global Leaders. Entitled Global Leadership and Public Policy for the 21st Century, the program has been described by the World Economic Forum and written about by Harvard, so

James Sebenius: 4 key negotiation tips for a modern day Machiavelli

Nov 24, 2007

James Sebenius: 4 key negotiation tips for a modern day Machiavelli

Disruptive ideas, by their very nature, are difficult execute. This is a problem for someone trying to push through innovations. Simultaneous agreement of conservative decision-making bodies such as governments, boards and city councils can be near impossible. Opposition can often only be overcome with strong sequential negotiation skills. Citing coalition-building tactic from Gulf War I,

The Forum of Young Global Leaders, explained by David Aikman

Nov 1, 2007

In a video featuring many photographs of Young Global Leaders, David Aikman of the World Economic Forum explains in this video how, why, who and for what reason the group was formed. Operating under the umbrella of the World Economic Forum – the Geneva-based organization founded by Klaus Schwab that has a high profile annual

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