World leaders to converge at Davos to discuss financial crisis

Davos, Jan 25 (PTI) As the world struggles to manage the financial meltdown, over 2,500 participants from 96 countries, including key ministers from India, will deliberate on ways to stabilise the global economy at the World Economic Forum meeting beginning January 28 here ...

... Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan would be honoured with the Crystal Award ...

Andy does Davos
By Emiliya Mychasuk and Emiko Terazono
Published: January 24 2009 02:00
Last updated: January 24 2009 02:00

When Prince Andrew swanned around Davos wearing his hat as UK Special Representative for International Trade and Investment, he networked assiduously with the likes of Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev and President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo of the Phillipines.

That entitled him to at least a couple of follow-up trips to Baku and tea with President Arroyo. So who knows what travels will eventuate from next week's World Economic Forum where he is hosting a reception ...

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/4adee60e-e9b9-11dd-9535-0000779fd2ac.html?nclick_check=1

A gloomier Davos

This year's World Economic Forum looks set to be a gloomier affair.

Each year, the city of Davos in Switzerland welcomes thousands of business, social and political leaders to discuss policy, and it can be a glitzy get-together in the Alps.

Last year, the meeting's theme was "The Power of Collaborative Innovation," and U2 singer Bono was among the big headliners ...

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2008667383_pulse25.html

TURKISH PIANIST TO PLAY AT DAVOS SUMMIT

Turkey's internationally acclaimed classical pianist Fazil Say is set to take stage at the closing party of this year's Davos Summit. Luzern Symphony Orchestra and conductor Alexander Liebreich will accompany Say in the concert. Say will perform works by Beethoven and Saint-Saens.

http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/domestic/10850936.asp?scr=1

John Thain and the curse of being No. 2
On Wall Street, when the going gets rough, the second-in-command gets the ax.
By William Cohan, contributor
Last Updated: January 24, 2009: 11:30 AM ET

(Fortune) -- ... there was the late disclosure of billions in fourth-quarter trading losses, which may have derailed the merger had Thain disclosed them before the Merrill and Bank of America shareholders voted on the merger on Dec. 5 ...

... there was Thain's end-of-year Vail vacation and his desire to head off to Davos ...

Then came the billions in bonuses paid a month earlier than Merrill had paid bonuses in the past ...

And then .. the revelation.. that he had .. spent $1.2 million redecorating his office ...

http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/24/news/companies/thain.fortune/?postversion=2009012411

WEF to begin at Davos on January 28
25 Jan 2009, 0217 hrs IST, Sheila Mathrani, ET Bureau

GENEVA : The world is in a crisis — financially, economically, ethically, climatically, with security issues in food , water and energy, and terrorism threatening to overcome it globally. And the 39th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum at Davos hopes to get shakers and makers think out of the box and find a common global cooperation and solution ..

It will take up ‘Shaping the post-crisis world’ , with over 2,500 participants of which 41 are heads of state, and key ministers from the G8 and G20, and 1,400 business leaders, who will look at the immediate crisis and ways to relaunch the global economy, and interrelated risks including climate change, food and water security.

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Features/The_Sunday_ET/CompaniesEconomy/WEF_to_begin_at_Davos_on_January_28/articleshow/4028271.cms