We are inviting emerging leaders from the public and private sectors to participate in our first leadership programme in Mongolia. A week in Hong Kong building the skills required to succeed in today’s complex business environment will be followed by a ground-breaking field project in Ulaanbaatar.
Davos-Klosters, Switzerland
25 Jan, 1-2pm
Speaker, The Sustainability Context
28 Jan, 3.30-4.30pm
Moderator, The Sustainability Champions
The rules of global business are being re-written. Long held assumptions around capitalism and markets are being challenged. As the economic system is being re-shaped the wider concepts of sustainability beyond simple notions of greening are now coming to the fore. Amidst these changes, the Asia region is emerging as the new centre of economic and political influence, a trend which will only inc…
The Press Room contains newspaper and online articles about GIFT from 2004 to the present day. The Video section is a library of footage from news channels across the globe and televised interviews with Chandran Nair talking about globalisation, consumption and leadership in Asia.
During the Cultural Revolution, the Chinese faced food shortages and starvation. Today, nearly 100 million people are obese in the world's fastest-growing economy, more than five times the number in 2005.
Chandran Nair argues for Asia to develop its own energy strategy to prevent the continent from falling headlong into an environmental crisis. He was invited to contribute his thoughts as part of CNBC's initiative called Energy Opportunities, in association with Shell and the Harvard Business Review.
The shifting of economic and political power eastwards means the West must wake up to the fact that promoting consumption-led growth to Asia is not a viable option when natural resources are being so rapidly exhausted. Chandran Nair outlines how Asia should abandon Western-style economic practices to achieve a sustainably prosperous future on its own terms.
