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The Davos Forum will move to Singapore this year in 2021 due to the pandemic

The World Economic Forum (WEF, for its acronym in English) announced this Monday that it is moving its annual meeting Davos to Singapore due to the pandemic, although he has assured that they will return to the Swiss Alps in 2022.

As the organization has argued, the change in location reflects the Forum’s priority of safeguarding the health and safety of participants and the host community. “After careful review, and in light of the current situation regarding Covid-19 cases, it was decided that Singapore was the best place to hold the meeting,” they explained.

However, during the usual Davos week, which in 2021 is celebrated from January 25 to 29, the Forum will host a virtual act to restore trust and shape the principles, policies and associations necessary in 2021, for which it will have the participation of Heads of State and Government, executive directors, civil society leaders, world media and youth leaders from Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Latin America and North America.

The face-to-face meeting to be held in Singapore from May 13 to 16 will be the first international event to address the recovery from the pandemic and to do so, it will bring together world leaders to focus on developing of solutions to the most pressing problems facing the world today.

“The 2021 Special Annual Meeting will be a place for leaders of business, government and civil society to meet in person for the first time since the start of the global pandemic. Cooperation between the public and private sectors is mine. It is necessary than ever to restore trust and address the fault lines that emerged in 2020, “said Klaus Schwab, Founder and CEO of the World Economic Forum.

Before the extraordinary annual meeting in 2021, the Forum will host in Tokyo, on April 6 and 7, 2021, the World Summit on the Governance of Technology.

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