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The OECD’s New World Forum

In November, I was honored to participate in the 7th annual New World Forum (Forum Nouveau Monde) at OECD headquarters in Paris. Fortunately (or unfortunately) held just days before the terrorist attacks, the Forum grappled with the most pressing social, political and economic issues facing its members (i.e. the world’s developed nations). I was asked to moderate one panel on the future of inequality with the OECD’s chief statistician, Martine Durand, Oxfam Mexico executive director Ricardo Fuentes-Nieva, Bangalore Political Action Committee founder Ashwin Mahesh, former director of the UNDP’s Human Development Report Khalid Malik, and Colombian politican Clara Rojas Gonzalez. The video of our session is above; here’s the session description:

It seems that the world is becoming more and more unequal, no matter the level of development and the growth rates Knowing that the disparities are of a multidimensional nature and extend well beyond the differences of income, what are the relevant indicators of inequalities that economic policies should be taking into account? What happens in the long run when wealth is being concentrated in the hands of fewer players? What is the link between inequalities, growth and political system? What could be done for the largest number to benefit from progress and how could a dynamic of middle classes, factor of equality and integration in our societies, be encouraged?

Needless to say, we were able to solve inequality in 90 minutes flat.

I was also fortunate to speak on a second panel about the future of human labor (apres robots, les deluges), the video for which is below:

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Greg Lindsay is a generalist, urbanist, futurist, and speaker. He is a non-resident senior fellow of the Arizona State University Threatcasting Lab, a non-resident senior fellow of MIT’s Future Urban Collectives Lab, and a non-resident senior fellow of the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Strategy Initiative. He was the founding chief communications officer of Climate Alpha and remains a senior advisor. Previously, he was an urban tech fellow at Cornell Tech’s Jacobs Institute, where he explored the implications of AI and augmented reality at urban scale.

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