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Trust Matters

The 50th St. Gallen Symposium will focus on “Trust Matters”, exploring ways to preserve and strengthen institutional and inter-personal trust at a moment in time when it matters most. Our anniversary theme will be explored throughout the year and at…

Banking on Trust

Kajsa Lundborg, CMO of Froda Kajsa Lundborg created her first online game at the age of nine, leaning on the resources and expertise of her older brothers, who were given computers to encourage them to study programming. At seventeen, during an entrepreneurship class, Lundborg created her first app. At 20, she…

Data does it

Morris Madut Kon, Managing Partner at Afrontier Consulting Ltd and Lecturer at the University of Juba  In 2013, just a few years after South Sudan became the world’s newest country after gaining independence from Sudan, civil war erupted. The South Sudanese Civil War lasted from…

Reflections as a Leader of Tomorrow

Abishek S Narayan, Doctoral Researcher at Eawag and ETH Zurich A month has passed since the 50th St. Gallen Symposium, and my reflections are still as fresh as the symposium experience itself. When I first heard of the Symposium, I…

Reverting Learning Losses in the Wake of Covid-19

At the 50th St. Gallen Symposium, educators, researchers and entrepreneurs discussed ways to build back and build better education systems in a post-pandemic school environment. The coronavirus pandemic has disrupted educational systems at a global scale, harming students’ development in…

Reliable Information in an Age of Infodemics

On the occasion of the 50th St. Gallen Symposium, a cross-generational group of participants explored ways to address emerging challenges of disinformation online. The ways news and information are created, distributed and consumed have changed significantly over the last decade.…