It's a ridiculous place to have it, particularly at a time when the economy is in such a tough position. But underpinning it, this notion that you have people talking to each other is actually really important. And it's quite hard to replicate this network effect. So that is to say that Davos is the important, the high star power event that it always was and needs to be.
The global elite’s annual Alpine jamboree may have lost some of its convening power, our editor-in-chief says, but the many encounters it enables still have enormous value. Our correspondent considers what the closing of Noma, a legendary Danish restaurant, means for the world of fine dining. And remembering Adolfo Kaminsky, whose expertly forged documents saved thousands of Jews’ lives.
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