1. "Intersectionality can radically improve recovery efforts"
Ashleigh Streeter-Jones (Canberra Hub) is the founder of Raise Our Voice Australia, a non-profit working to increase the number of female and gender diverse voices from all backgrounds in politics and policy-making.
"Throughout The Davos Agenda, leaders consistently acknowledged the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on women, young people, people of colour and other persons from marginalised backgrounds. Participants reinforced the importance of public, private, and civil society partnerships to create an inclusive post-COVID world. It is on all of us to build back better and create a society that leaves no one behind. Davos reignited my mission to foster more diversity in public policy and to embrace public policy as a tool for change."
2. "Put simply: we need more women in leadership"
Sikander Bizenjo (Karachi Hub) is an economist and development practitioner. In his hub, he and fellow Global Shapers have provided more than 60,000 books to libraries in need throughout the pandemic.
"Female-led countries have been held up as exemplars of how to manage this pandemic. What was obvious throughout The Davos Agenda is that we need more women in leadership – not only to help drive recovery efforts but also to build a stronger, more equitable-post pandemic world. The gender divide is prominent in all societies and until we have inclusive leadership, we cannot truly progress."
3. "Climate action must be at the heart of recovery efforts."
Rumaitha Al Busaidi (Muscat Hub) is a marine scientist and the Director of the Environment Society of Oman.
"With COVID-19 infections continuing to rise and the entire world feeling the economic impact of the crisis, getting the virus under control is an immediate priority. But recovery goes beyond vaccination plans and returning economic systems to 'normal.' A sustainable recovery requires efforts to address climate change and I was happy to see that this was the most talked-about topic during The Davos Agenda. The calls to action for business leaders are clear: we need responsible industry transformations and green growth."