Claude Smadja
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Claude Smadja
Claude Smadja is the Chairman of Smadja & Smadja Strategic Advisory, and founder of the India Global Innovation Connect. Before creating Smadja & Smadja, he was the managing director of the World Economic Forum (WEF) from 1995 to 2001. He has been involved with the WEF for 14 years, first as a member of the Executive Board, before re-joining as its MD.
Claude Smadja is the Chairman of Smadja & Smadja Strategic Advisory, and founder of the India Global Innovation Connect. Before creating Smadja & Smadja, he was the managing director of the World Economic Forum (WEF) from 1995 to 2001. He has been involved with the WEF for 14 years, first as a member of the Executive Board, before re-joining as its MD.
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The most dangerous gap of all
Both authoritarian and democratic governments are growing more distant from their angry citizens
 "The most dangerous gap of all")
Claude Smadja: A victory for pragmatism and realism
The minister learns from Europe's economic suicide, and pulls off a difficult balancing act
Claude Smadja: Europe will never be the same
The crisis and the painful, austerity-induced recession will focus anger on a relentless Germany
Claude Smadja: Second-term opportunities
Barack Obama is the same man he has been for the past four years, but he faces entirely new challenges
Claude Smadja: Some light at the end of the 2012 tunnel?
Next year might be better than the last
Claude Smadja: Egypt returns to centre stage
Events around the Gaza flare-up reveal that Iran is ceding space to a resurgent Egypt under President Morsi
Claude Smadja: The West in disarray
Europe's divisions and US' political dysfunction mean that they are the two biggest threats to the world economy
Claude Smadja: Lost in the Arab world
The United States is the weakest it has ever been in dealing with Arab frustrations over their mutual relationship
Claude Smadja: Realpolitik in Syria
Syria's civil war is a fight to the finish with great power politics at stake
Claude Smadja: Beijing to the rescue
China's leaders are responding to the growth slowdown, but risk losing their strategic direction
Claude Smadja: Rio+20 = almost zero
Beware of the white elephants that are giant international summits, which cannot reflect a changing world
Claude Smadja: The real last chance for Europe
The exclusive, Germany-led focus on austerity must end if Europe is to come out of crisis
Claude Smadja: A newly nervous Beijing
Something unprecedented in recent history has happened: China's more uncertain
Claude Smadja: An emerging-market coalition
Old rivalries must be buried to nominate a non-American head for the World Bank
Claude Smadja: We all need an industrial policy
An updated concept of government support for innovating, job-creating sectors is necessary