NDTV At Davos
NDTV At Davos
  • Davos dilemma: How to help, not harm, world's fragile recovery
    Tuesday January 21, 2014

    Protagonists will include U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and central bankers Mark Carney, Mario Draghi and Haruhiko Kuroda. A "senior leader" from China is also expected.

  • Notable in their absence from Davos
    Tuesday January 21, 2014

    Billionaire Warren E. Buffett has never attended. Neither has Timothy D. Cook, chief executive of Apple, the world's largest company by market value. (His predecessor, Steve Jobs, never went, either.) The founders of Google, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, stopped going a couple of years ago, as did Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chairman. Both companies do send other execut...

  • Davos forum founder sees Syria, Iran in spotlight
    Tuesday January 21, 2014

    Klaus Schwab said in an interview with the Associated Press that there will be crossover between the forum's 2,500 participants and the officials from the U.S., Russia and close to 40 other countries that are attending the start of the Syria peace conference several hours away in Montreux, Switzerland.