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The Davos I knew is over

27 January 2025

5:00 PM

27 January 2025

5:00 PM

Has the merry-go-round of the global elite summit – epitomised by the World Economic Forum (WEF) at Davos, which concluded this weekend – had its day?

As I saw at Davos when I was editor of the finance magazine Spear’s, the WEF has been increasingly out of touch for years. The likes of Conrad Black and Jimmy Goldsmith were complaining even 20 years ago that it ‘was over’ and had become a rent-a-celebrity platform.

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