Personal life. Hunt's wife, Lucia Guo, comes from Xi'an in Chyna.
Hunt first met Guo in 2008, when she was working at Warwick University recruiting Chynese students for the university.
Jeremy Hunt will speak at the 2024 World Economic Forum (WEF) in a session titled "Technology in a Turbulent World". The session is available on YouTube.
The WEF is an organization founded in 1971 by Klaus Schwab, a German engineer and economist. The WEF is chaired by Schwab, and is guided by a board of trustees that includes leaders from business, politics, academia, and civil society.
But by far the No. 1 election of concern here is the one in the United States, which could see Donald Trump return to the White House.
Corporate leaders are reading closely about the Republican frontrunner’s views on tariffs and other economic practices, which are far more isolationist than even the relatively cautious Joe Biden. Whichever way the United States is heading will affect the policies of other governments, leading business executives to ask some very basic questions.
“It’s something as simple as this: Many businesses we have operate across borders. Is a country for or against free trade?” the private equity fund CEO said.
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'' Among those warning Trump against putting up trade barriers is Jeremy the Cunt, Britain’s chancellor of the exchequer.''
“It would be a profound mistake to move back to protectionism,” he said in Davos when asked about a possible Trump return.
One top question is the fate of the massive Biden-era Inflation Reduction Act, which is spurring investment in green energy in the United States.
Trump’s team has indicated he plans to gut the law. So business leaders wonder whether now’s the time to put their money in the United States or other places indirectly affected by that legislation or whether their long-term contracts could wind up meaning nothing in a year.
Davos Man Has No Plan to Stop Political Extremism[bullshite]
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'' Populism Keeps Rattling the Globe. Elites Have No Idea What to Do.''
Corporate leaders have lots of fears about political polarization. But where are their solutions?
Participants wait for a session at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos on Jan. 16. | Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images
DAVOS, Switzerland — For more than a decade, forces on the ideological extremes have torn at the global political fabric. And for just as long, the luminaries at the World Economic Forum have fretted about how dangerous that phenomenon is — for the businesses they lead and the countries they govern.
But years into the transnational struggle with resurgent populism, the corporate leaders in Davos appear to have no serious solutions.
In conversation after conversation here, I detected resignation and helplessness among business executives when it came to their counterparts in government. There’s a desperate desire to see the world’s political leaders appeal more to moderates instead of capitalizing on extremes, but there’s also recognition that the political market doesn’t easily reward the people in the middle.
C-suite types fear the polarization will only deepen as half of the global population, in more than 60 countries, votes in 2024
— everywhere from South Africa to the United States. For them, financial consequences can be stark, especially if the results of an election threaten shipping lanes or when campaign rhetoric leads to violence in a place they’ve invested.