Leaders of 40 countries will meet in Davos from January 21-24, for the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum. The theme for this year is ‘The New Global Context’ to take stock of the new geo-political, social, economic and technological transformations.
On the discussion agenda are environment and resource scarcity, employment skills and human capital, gender parity, long-term investing, infrastructure and development, food security and agriculture.
India’s Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, Minister of State for Power, Coal and New & Renewable Energy Piyush Goel and over a 100 Indian business leaders will attend the Summit.
Finance Minister Jaitley is scheduled to meet his American counterpart U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew and UK Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne on the first day of the Summit. He will later have closed-door meetings with British Petroleum’s CEO Bob Dudley, Cisco Chairman & CEO John Chambers, Barclays Chairman David Walker and special invitees of the Confederation of Indian Industry-Boston Consulting Group. Apart from this, the finance minister, will be speaking at seven sessions and many investment roundtable conversations.
The Indian government hopes to push its “Make in India’ campaign to global investors at the Davos Summit.