Qatar Economic Forum

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Qatar has one of the largest number of educated women, there are more women that graduate from universities than men, there are women working across very important sectors across the country…so I feel In very great company.

H.E. Dr. Hanan al-Kuwari

Minister of Public Health, The State of Qatar

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No matter what the world is going through, no matter what individuals are going through, when you’re watching a soccer game, when you’re watching the Olympics, nothing else matters for that amount of time and that’s why sport is so strong.

David Beckham

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What the pandemic has done is fundamentally accelerated the digital adoption at least by a decade. It’s not about only making the technology available. Yes, the technology has been made available; this whole collaborative set of tools, the investment in these tools, the adoption of these tools has skyrocketed. But the more important thing is whether rich or poor, educated or uneducated, living in urban or rural areas, everyone has adopted it. So digital has become mainstream.

Natarajan Chandrasekaran

Chairman, Tata Sons

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We impose a penalty on many women for trying to fulfill their own potential while also wanting to be wives and mothers and caregivers and we need to figure out how to better organize our societies and our economies so that more people, particularly more women, have a chance both to fulfill their own aspirations but equally, if not more importantly, to fulfill their personal goals and desires of being embedded in a family and a community.

Hillary Rodham Clinton

67th Secretary of State, The United States of America

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We are seeing more demand for sustainable strategies, more investors worldwide believe that climate risk is investment risk. More investors around the world are asking, ‘How do we determine the path towards decarbonization?’ and how each company is performing in that path. And I think from the ExxonMobil vote, we are seeing vast change, very rapidly.

Laurence D. Fink

Chairman and CEO, BlackRock

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Some people say that there is a de-globalization going on but I prefer to think of it as a re-globalization in which those parts of the world that were left behind and those people who were excluded from periods of fast globalization will be brought back in.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Director-General, World Trade Organization