The World Needs to Wake Up to Long-Term Risks
Aylin Elci, Public Engagement, World Economic Forum, +41 75 404 10 95, [email protected]
In 2020, the world saw the catastrophic effects of ignoring long-term risks such as pandemics, now an immediate risk according to the Global Risks Report 2021 released today
The COVID-19 pandemic is increasing disparities and social fragmentation, in the next 3-5 years will threaten the economy, and in the next 5-10 years will weaken geopolitical stability
Meanwhile, environmental concerns still top the list in terms of likelihood and impact for the next decade
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OpEd - Taking a Pounding: A Stellar Clean Sport Careerist Who Said What People Thought 01/15/21
By Ben Nichols, former Senior Media Relations Manager for WADA
It was during my morning commute to Montreal’s Stock Exchange Tower on the second day of my WADA tenure in June 2013 when I first truly heard of Dick Pound’s name, that is if you ignore the reams of anti-doping-crash-course-reading I’d scanned in the months leading up to my new job heading Media Relations for the global regulator in what was a post Lance-Armstrong-mea-culpa-to-Oprah-Winfrey, pre-Russian-doping-scandal era.
Dick Pound at ATR interview during PyeongChang 2018. (ATR)