Oliver Cann

Oliver Cann

Oliver Cann is responsible for coordinating all of the World Economic Forum’s media output, including its globally recognised Global Competitiveness, Global Risks and Global Gender Gap reports. Overseeing an account management structure that represents the interests of groups as diverse as faith and trade union leaders alongside business leaders and youth activists, his job is to help ensure that the many voices get heard on the Forum’s media channels, as well as its annual meeting at Davos-Klosters and other events around the world.

In 2015, the World Economic Forum had the opportunity to build on its legacy to become a platform for public-private cooperation. The communications function played a central role towards this goal, ensuring that the public is aware of an expanded remit to transform global agendas and, most importantly, is empowered to participate.

Crisis and hardship may be a recurrent feature of human history; however, it is hard to argue against the fact that the challenges facing our world today are more complex, interrelated and faster-changing than anything we have faced in the past...