Heads of state and leading figures from business and academia gather this week in Davos, Switzerland to “shape global, regional and industry agendas,” as part of the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) annual meeting. With this year’s conference entitled "The Great Transformation: Shaping New Models," we talk to WEF Sustainability Adviser and CIGI Senior Visiting Fellow Simon Zadek on what the forum’s unique composition can offer in terms of economic recovery and a move toward green growth.

The International Relations and Security Network (ISN) interviews CIGI Senior Fellow Debra Steger on topics surrounding international organizations and the World Trade Organization.

In his latest to Huffington Post Canada, CIGI Distinguished Fellow Andrew Cooper looks at what some of the possible developments will be in the global economy for 2012.

In light of David Cameron’s veto on a Euro-surveillance treaty, CIGI Distinguished Fellow Andrew Cooper looks at how echoes of the past are shaping British policy during hard economic times. Are contemporary Conservatives in the UK a far departure from those of the 1930s?

CIGI Distinguished Fellow Jorge Heine writes in The Toronto Star that "twenty years from now, we can expect to see Brazil as a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, as the prime leader of a South America that will have become one of the most vigorous and prosperous regions of the world, and as a key international player."