Centre for Global Industries

With operations spanning the United States and Switzerland, the Centre for Global Industries focuses on developing the Industry Partnership Programme, which is aimed at engaging global companies in the Forum's activities at the industry level.

The Industry Partners programme includes participation in the Forum's Industry Partners Meetings, contributing to an evolving portfolio of task forces (ongoing working groups focused on particular areas of interest) and actively participating in several modules (specific meetings of designated senior executives, such as Chief Strategy Officers).

To date, more than 180 companies have formally joined the programme, including more than 80 from North America.


Globalization of Alternative Investments
Working Papers Volume 1 The Global Economic Impact of Private Equity

The World Economic Forum publishes its first volume of Working Papers on “The Global Economic Impact of Private Equity” with the intent to provide a comprehensive fact-base that promotes practical and policy-based dialogue on the role of private equity firms and investments. The research conducted by an international team of noted academics led by Josh Lerner, Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking at Harvard Business School, provides large scale empirical analyses on the demography of global private equity deals, the willingness of private equity-backed firms to make long-term investments globally and the impact of private equity investments on employment levels of firms in the US and corporate governance in the UK. The large-scale studies were complemented by in-depth analyses of private equity transactions in Western Europe and the emerging economies in Asia (namely, China and India).
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