About.
Global Convener.
With two decades of experience as a media executive, Ana Rold leads Diplomatic Courier and World in 2050, two platforms that inform and inspire global audiences on the most pressing issues and opportunities of our time. Her mission is to foster dialogue, collaboration, and innovation among diverse stakeholders and sectors, and to amplify the voices and perspectives of changemakers and thought leaders.
Since 2006, Ana has founded and led two dozen global forums and initiatives, including the Global Talent Summit, the Wellbeing Forum, the Circular Economy Forum, the Davos Dialogue, the Global Women’s Forum, the Global Goals in Action Forum, and many more. Her events have brought together thousands of futurists, experts, and speakers from over 80 countries and industries.
Areas of Focus & Expertise.
HEALTHCARE & Wellbeing
Individual and societal wellbeing at an inflection point.
There is a growing recognition of the importance of more integrative, holistic approaches to wellbeing. Private and civil society sector work on wellbeing, often empowered by technological innovation, are leading to better diagnostic and treatment options while empowering individuals—yet policy support lags.
Sub-trends:
- Widespread rethinking of what is considered health spurs a more holistic, “Whole of Health” approach to Physical, Mental, Spiritual, Social, and Intellectual health.
- The rise of self-care along with personalized and preventative wellbeing.
- Digital innovations, falling trust in science present new opportunities, challenges.
- Failure to take wellbeing and the global rise in unhappiness as serious policy issues, leading to societal upheaval and adverse political events.
Governance & Institutions
Societal and governance institutions under pressure.
Our trust in one another and our institutions is in crisis, opening the door for misunderstandings or bad actors to cause great harm. At a time when our challenges are increasingly global and require close cooperation, we are increasingly turning away from collective action and focusing on our differences.
Sub-Trends:
- Disinformation, misinformation, and populism emphasize differences, erode trust.
- Ability of institutions to succeed compromised by rapidly changing world.
- Weakened democracy and rule of law means resurgent autocracies, “strongman” leadership.
- Rising inequality, unresponsive institutions creating regional geopolitical trust gaps.
- Alliances and international rights regimes weakening as governments, global publics look inward.
Education & Work
Education and work grapple with the next great rebalancing.
Education and work are at an inflection point. A nexus of impacts from the pandemic, technological innovation, and new momentum for rearticulating wellbeing and success in the workplace and classroom mean disruptions that are challenging stakeholders to be more forward thinking and agile—or fail.
Sub-trends:
- Rebalancing from pandemic, economic crisis, geopolitical uncertainty disrupting education and work.
- Growing movement to radically transform, not just reform, education systems.
- Relationship between education and work is more about skills and knowledge, less about degrees.
- Power shifting toward workers in employer, employee relationship.
- Global skills and credentialing gap needs addressing.
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