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Hi, this is Michelle. After half a century at the helm of the world’s most elite billionaire networking event, Klaus Schwab is bowing out at 87.

On the other side of the lake, the WHO is planning for a more drastic scaling down of divisions at its headquarters. Plus, a Swiss lawmaker wants Bern to be more proactive in helping Geneva’s financially struggling international community.

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Michelle Langrand

23.04.2025


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🏔️Davos gathering founder Klaus Schwab quits as World Economic Forum chair. This comes a year after Schwab announced he was relinquishing his executive role, a month before the media reported on allegations of a toxic working environment. Former Nestle CEO Peter Brabeck-Letmathe will take over as interim chair while the Geneva-based organisation picks a new leader.

Reuters (EN)

👔WHO to shrink Geneva headquarters to just four programme divisions. The latest proposal to cope with financial constraints reveals an even more drastic restructuring plan for the UN health agency.

Health Policy Watch (EN)

🇨🇭Swiss lawmaker pushes for task force on international Geneva. Green Party national councillor Nicolas Walder has called on Bern to set up a task force and appoint a special envoy to assess the needs of NGOs hit by US aid cuts in Geneva, but the right wing remains unconvinced.

Tribune de Genève (FR)

🍞UN food agency forced to halt aid in Ethiopia for 650,000 women and children. The World Food Programme said the decision was made due to a $222 million funding shortfall to meet humanitarian needs in Ethiopia up until September.

AFP via RFI (EN)

✝️A papal messenger of climate action and 'hope, humility and humanity'. UN officials paid tribute to Pope Francis as an "unflinching" advocate for nature, migrants and the poor, and recalled his role in securing the climate agreement in 2015.

Arete News (EN)

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