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At the World Economic Forum Platform for the New Economy and Society

  • Thierry Geiger
    Head, Benchmarking Practice
  • Guillaume Hingel
    Insight Lead, Benchmarking Practice
  • Vesselina Ratcheva
    Insight Lead, New Metrics Co-Lab
  • Saadia Zahidi 
    Head, Member of the Managing Board

Acknowledgements

The World Economic Forum would like to thank the members of the Global Council on the New Equality and Inclusion Agenda for their thought leadership and guidance. We would also like to particularly thank Miles Corak and Haroon Bhorat for their expertise and support throughout this project. 

We are extremely grateful to our colleagues in the Platform team for their collaboration, help and efforts, in particular to Till Leopold, Roberto Crotti and Sophie Brown. 

We are also thankful to Hope Steele and Mike Fisher for their excellent editing work and Accurat for their excellent graphic design and layout. This online report by Design Resources Ltd. We are also grateful to all the organizations from which we source the indicators that compose the index. Without their tremendous efforts in collecting data, this work would not be possible. In particular, we thank the staff of the following organizations: Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, International Labour Organization, International Telecommunications Union, OECD, Transparency International, UNDP, UNESCO and the World Bank.

Collaborations

The World Economic Forum would like to thank the members of the Global Council on the New Equality and Inclusion Agenda for their thought leadership and guidance. We would also like to particularly thank Miles Corak and Haroon Bhorat for their expertise and support throughout this project.

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  • Patrick Discroll
    Senior Data Scientist
  • Paul Matsiras
    Data Scientist 
  • Guillaume Saint-Jacques 
    Tech Lead – Computational Social Science
  • Amir Sepehri
    Senior Applied Researcher
  • Craig Tutterow
    Staff Data Scientist

Automatic Data Processing (ADP) 

  • Matthew Levin
    Chief Strategy Officer, ADP, LLC
  • Ahu Yildirmaz
    Co-Head, ADP Research Institute
  • Renzhong Meng
    Director, ADP Research Institute

Burning Glass Technologies 

  • Elías S. Hanno
    Senior Research Analyst
  • Bledi Taska
    Chief Economist
  • Emilee Nason
    Research Analyst

To learn more about the Platform for Shaping the Future of the New Economy and Society, please refer to the following website: https://www.weforum.org/platforms/shaping-the-future-of-the-new-economy-and-society.

Global Future Council on the New Equality and Inclusion Agenda

Prasad Swaminathan, Council Co-Chair
Group Head of Talent and Learning
ABB 

Laura D. Tyson, Council Co-Chair
Distinguished Professor
Haas School of Business
University of California, Berkeley

Michael D. Aguirre, Council Fellow
Postgraduate Fellow
Inequality in America Initiative
Harvard University

Jahanzaib Ansari 
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Knockri

Gary Barker 
President and Chief Executive Officer 
Promundo Global

Umran Beba
Senior Vice-President; Chief Human Resources Officer
Human Capital  Management
PepsiCo Inc.

Haroon Bhorat
Director, DPRU, School of Economics
University of Cape Town 

Sari Brody 
Global Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Manager
IKEA

Wanda Bryant Hope
Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer
Johnson & Johnson

Caroline Casey 
Founder and Director
The Valuable 500

Miles Corak
Professor of Economics
Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality
City University of New York (CUNY)

Mario Martin Delgado Carrillo
Chairman of the Political Coordination Board of MORENA
Chamber of Deputies of Mexico

Patsy Doerr
Global Head of Diversity and Inclusion
Credit Suisse

Rebeca Grynspan
Secretary-General
Secretaría General Iberoamericana (SEGIB)

Nora Lustig 
Samuel Z. Stone Professor of Latin American Economics;
Director, Commitment to Equity Institute
Tulane University

Mary Lou Maher
Head of Global Diversity and Inclusion
KPMG

John Morrison 
Chief Executive Officer
The Institute for Human Rights and Business Limited (IHRB)

Lisa Nishii
Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
Cornell University 

Rachel Osikoya
Global Head of Diversity and Inclusion
Maersk

Wade Rakes
Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer
Centene Corporation

Chris Rowland
Global Diversity Officer
Manpower

Bhushan Sethi 
Joint Global Leader for PwC People and Organization Practice
PwC

Kathryn Shaw
Professor of Economics
Stanford Business School 

Hessa Tahlak
Assistant Undersecretary for Social Affairs
Ministry of Community Development of the United Arab Emirates

Judith Williams
Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer
SAP

Platform for Shaping the Future of the New Economy and Society Business Partners

The World Economic Forum would like to thank the Business Partners of the Platform for their guidance and support.

  • A.T. Kearney Inc.
  • AARP
  • Accenture
  • AdeccoGroup
  • African Rainbow Minerals
  • AIG
  • Alghanim Industries 
  • AlixPartners
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Aroundtown SA
  • AT&T
  • Automatic Data Processing Inc. (ADP)
  • Bahrain Economic Development Board
  • Bank of America
  • Bank of Montreal
  • Barclays
  • BC Energy Investments Corp.
  • Bloomberg LP
  • Booking.com BV
  • Boston Consulting Group
  • Centene Corporation
  • Centrica
  • Charoen Pokphand Group Company Limited (CP Group)
  • Cisco Systems Inc.
  • Clayton, Dubilier & Rice LLC
  • CNH Industrial N.V.
  • Crescent Enterprises
  • Dassault Systèmes SE
  • Dell Technologies
  • Deutsche Post DHL Group
  • Dogan Åžirketler Grubu Holding A.S
  • Eurasian Resources Group
  • EY
  • GEMS Education
  • Google
  • Groupe Renault
  • Guardian Life Insurance
  • Health Care Service Corporation
  • Heidrick & Struggles
  • Henry Schein Inc.
  • Hewlett Packard Enterprise
  • Infosys Ltd
  • Ingka Group (IKEA Retail, Ingka Centres, Ingka Investments)
  • LL
  • Johnson & Johnson
  • Lego Foundation
  • LinkedIn Corporation
  • LRN Corporation
  • ManpowerGroup
  • Mastercard
  • Mercer (MMC)
  • Merck KGaA
  • Microsoft Corp.
  • NBCUniversal 
  • Nestlé
  • Nokia Corporation
  • Novolipetsk Steel (NLMK)
  • NYSE Group Inc.
  • Omnicom Group Inc.
  • Ooredoo
  • PAO Severstal
  • PayPal
  • Petroleo Brasileiro SA – PETROBRAS
  • PJSC PhosAgro
  • PricewaterhouseCoopers International Limited
  • Procter & Gamble
  • Publicis Groupe
  • QI Group
  • RBC Financial Group
  • Recruit Holdings Co. Ltd
  • Royal DSM NV
  • Salesforce
  • Sanofi
  • SAP
  • Saudi Aramco
  • Stanley Black & Decker Inc.
  • Teck Resources Limited
  • Turkcell
  • UBS
  • Unilever
  • Upwork
  • Verizon Communications
  • VMware Inc.
  • Willis Towers Watson
  • Workday Inc.
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