Penn in the world
Fourteen Penn faculty and President Amy Gutmann joined some of the world's leading minds in business, academia, medicine and technology in Dubai for the first-ever Summit on the Global Agenda.
The Summit is a project of the World Economic Forum and was held for the purpose of advancing solutions to some of the most critical challenges facing the world today. It attracted 700 of the world's most innovative thinkers to take part in 60 different councils that addressed a variety of global issues, from climate change, to the world financial crisis, to the perils of religious extremism. The councils were arranged by expertise and discipline and met individually to start, but then linked up with other councils to create what the Forum hopes will become a "problem-solving network."
Christopher B. Murray, a Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor who attended the Summit, said the event will also pay dividends for the Penn campus community. "[It] will really help us to absorb these global themes, and translate them into our day-to-day work here on campus," he said.
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