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Investing in People

Redrawing the Geography of Jobs

January 23, 2025
10:15–11:00 (Europe/Amsterdam time zone)

About this session

Within a generation, lower-income countries will have 50% more workers than higher-income countries. Digital technologies hold the potential to allow more geographic inclusion for the global workforce, while the revival of industrial policy promises to bring manufacturing jobs "back home" in some regions. What will be the new geography of jobs?

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Speakers

DB
David Bach
President
IMD Business School
NM
Nacho De Marco
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
BairesDev
HI
Hisayuki Idekoba
Representative Director, President and CEO
Recruit Holdings
EM
Erika Kraemer Mbula
Professor of Economics
University of Johannesburg
AP
Amy Pope
Director-General
International Organization for Migration (IOM)

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