A former corporate exec explains why the world’s CEOs are suddenly sucking up to Trump and ditching DEI.
Every January, world leaders and CEOs gather in the Swiss mountain town of Davos for the annual week-long meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF). There they discuss the big issues of the day and present themselves as global agenda setters.
But there was something very different about this year’s confab. All the reports from the WEF suggest that the attendees have started to warm to US president Donald Trump and many of his policies. Which has come as a shock to those accustomed to Davos bigwigs talking up workplace diversity, promising to fight climate change and denouncing the rise of ‘authoritarian’ populism.
