By NNN-BSS
Dhaka : Chief Adviser of Bangladesh caretaker government Dr Fakhruddin Ahmed is scheduled to join this week the World Economic Forum (WEF) Meeting in Switzerland to represent Bangladesh for the first time in the high-profile global platform of political, business and economic leaders.
The chief adviser is to leave here tomorrow on a four-day visit to Swiss city of Davos, the WEF headquarter where 2,500 participants from 88 countries including 27 heads of state or
government, 113 cabinet ministers, top executives of global corporate bodies, social entrepreneurs, economists and religious and media leaders are expected to meet.
“This is an opportunity to pursue our economy and diplomacy,” a foreign ministry official said as asked to explain the significance of Bangladesh’s participation in the meeting.
He said, this will be an event where Bangladesh would get the scope to interact with the global political and business leaders while WEF officials said at this year’s meeting in Davos,
the world leaders were expected to review “The Power Of Collaborative Innovation” through greater interaction between the advanced North and developing South.
Dr Fakhruddin is set to join the WEF plenary on January 24, hold an informal meeting with world economic forum leaders, address a press conference for international media and join
several other progrtammes on the sidelines including a meeting with the Asian Development Bank president.
Foreign Adviser Dr Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury and Press Secretary to the Chief Adviser Syed Fahim Munaim are among the members of a small official entourage of the chief adviser.
Several other leading personalities and social entrepreneurs including Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus, whose experiment of poor men’s banking earned Bangladesh the fame of being the home of micro credit, are also to join the Davos meet to make it more important from Bangladesh perspective.
Conference organizers in Davos said, around 60 percent of the participants were to be business leaders drawn principally from the Forum’s members – 1,000 of the foremost companies from around the world and across all economic sectors.