CHAPTER 4

The World Economic Forum

Global Leadership Fellows Program

Gilbert J.B. Probst and Eric S. Roland

The modern global arena features a set of unprecedented challenges that are transnational, transcultural, and even transcendental in nature. Finding viable solutions to worldwide environmental degradation, bridging the global divide in access to health care and education, and stabilizing ever-changing geopolitical tensions all require thinking that stretches the boundaries of individual imagination and creativity. These and other intractable issues exceed the capacity of an individual actor or, as history has demonstrated, a single sector. Global issues require multi-stakeholder collaboration, with private, public, and civil society leaders ...

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