Klaus Schwab - Shaping the Future of the Fourth Industrial Revolution: A Guide to Building a Better World

Acknowledgments

This book is a product of multistakeholder engagement and collaboration. It builds on 18 months of research, interviews, workshops, briefings and summits engaging thousands of experts, senior executives and policy-makers, as well as in-depth interviews and correspondence with over 240 leading thinkers.

The World Economic Forum Global Future Councils and Expert Network contributed extensively to the chapters featured in Section 2, submitting multiple drafts and myriad useful, detailed comments regarding technologies that are both highly complicated and constantly in flux.

As such, it is impossible individually to name everyone who has meaningfully influenced the content in this book. Nevertheless, deep gratitude is owed to all the members of the Forums Global Future Councils (GFCs), particularly those councils focused on Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies. A significant proportion of experts acknowledged directly in the text and in the notes are members of GFCs. The contributors to all chapters are listed below, and the full lists of councils and their members can be found at: https://www.weforum.org/communities/global-future-councils.

We would like particularly to thank all the experts who generously gave their time to participate in interviews, informal discussions or exchanges via email, phone and in person throughout the preparation of this book. These include:

Asmaa Abu Mezied, Small Enterprise Center

Asheesh Advani, JA Worldwide

Dapo Akande, University of Oxford

Anne-Marie Allgrove, Partner, Baker & McKenzie

Dmitri Alperovitch, Crowdstrike

Michael Altendorf, Adtelligence

Kees Arts, Protix

Aln Aspuru-Guzik, Harvard University

Navdeep Singh Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development of Canada

Banny Banerjee, Stanford University

Brian Behlendorf, Hyperledger

Emily Bell, Columbia University

Marc R. Benioff, Salesforce.com

Yobie Benjamin, Avegant

Niklas Bergman, Intergalactic

Sangeeta Bhatia, MIT

Burkhard Blechschmidt, Cognizant

Adam Bly, Spotify

Iris Bohnet, Harvard University

danah boyd, Microsoft Research

Edward Boyden, MIT

Kirk Bresniker, Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Winnie Byanyima, Oxfam

Cong Cao, University of Nottingham

Alvin Carpio, The Fourth Group

John Carrington, Stem

Justine Cassell, Carnegie Mellon University

Sang Kyun Cha, Seoul National University Derrick Cham, Strategy Group, Government of Singapore

Joshua Chan, Smart Nation and Digital Government Office, Government of Singapore

Andrew Charlton, AlphaBeta

Fadi Chehad, Chehad Inc.

Devan Chenoy, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII)

Hannah Chia, Strategy Group, Government of Singapore

Carol Chong, Singapore Economic Development Board

Jae-Yong Choung, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Ernesto Ciorra, Enel

Alan Cohn, Georgetown University

Stephen Cotton, International Transport Workers Federation

Aron Cramer, Business for Social Responsibility (BSR)

James Crawford, Orbital Insight

Molly Crockett, University of Oxford

Pang Tee Kin Damien, Monetary Authority of Singapore

Paul Daugherty, Accenture

Eric David, Organovo

Charlie Day, Office of Innovation and Science Australia

Angus Deaton, Princeton University

Phill Dickens, University of Nottingham

Zhang Dongxiao, Peking University

P. Murali Doraiswamy, Duke University

David Eaves, Harvard Kennedy School

Imad Elhajj, American University of Beirut

Sherif Elsayed-Ali, Amnesty International

Helmy Eltoukhy, Guardant Health

Ezekiel Emanuel, University of Pennsylvania

Victoria A. Espinel, BSAThe Software Alliance

Aldo Faisal, Imperial College London

Al Falcione, Salesforce.com

Nita Farahany, Duke University

Dan Farber, Salesforce.com

Christopher Field, Stanford University

Primavera De Filippi, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University

Luciano Floridi, University of Oxford

Brian Forde, MIT

Tracy Fullerton, University of Southern California

Pascale Fung, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Andrew Fursman, 1QBit

Mary Galeti, Shiplake Partners

Brian Gallagher, United Way

Dileep George, Vicarious

Kunal Ghosh, Inscopix

Bob Goodson, Quid

Christoph Graber, University of Zurich

Henry T. Greely, Stanford University

Wang Guoyu, Fudan University

Sanjay Gupta, LinkedCap

Seth Gurgel, PILnet

Gillian Hadfield, University of Southern California

John Hagel, Deloitte

Wang Haoyi, CAS Institute of Zoology

Demis Hassabis, Google DeepMind

Ricardo Housmann, Harvard University

John Havens, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Yan He, Zhejiang University

Imogen Heap, Entrepreneur and recording artist

Cameron Hepburn, University of Oxford

Angie Hobbs, University of Sheffield

Timothy Hwang, FiscalNote

Jane Hynes, Salesforce.com

Nancy Ip, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

David Ireland, ThinkPlace

Paul Jacobs, Qualcomm

Amy Myers Jaffe, University of California

Davis Ratika Jain, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII)

Sheila Jasanoff, Harvard Kennedy School

Ajay Jasra, Indigo

Chi Hyung Jeon, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Feng Jianfeng, Fudan University

Yan Jianhua, Zhejiang University

Sunjoy Joshi, Observer Research Foundation (ORF)

Calestous Juma, Harvard Kennedy School

Anja Kaspersen, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)

Stephane Kasriel, Upwork

Neal Kassell, Focused Ultrasound Foundation

Drue Kataoka, Drue Kataoka Studios

Leanne Kemp, Everledger

So-Young Kim, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

Erica Kochi, UNICEF

David Krakauer, Santa Fe Institute

Ramayya Krishnan, Carnegie Mellon

Jennifer Kuzma, North Carolina State University

Jeanette Kwek, Strategy Group, Government of Singapore

Dong-Soo Kwon, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Peter Lacy, Accenture

Corinna E. Lathan, AnthroTronix

Jim Leape, Stanford University

Jae Kyu Lee, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Jong-Kwan Lee, Sung Kyun Kwan University

Sang Yup Lee, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Steve Leonard, SG Innovate

Geoffrey Ling, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

Xu LiPing, Zhejiang University

Simon Longstaff, The Ethics Centre

Katherine Mach, Stanford University

Raffi Mardirosan, Ouster

Hugh Martin, Verizon

Stuart McClure, Cylance

William McDonough, McDonough Innovation

Cheri McGuire, Standard Chartered Bank

Chris McKenna, University of Oxford

Cristian Mendoza, The Pontifical University of the Holy Cross

Bernard Meyersen, IBM Corporation

Florence Mok, Monetary Authority of Singapore

Ben Moore, University of Zurich

Simon Mulcahey, Salesforce.com

Geoff Mulgan, NESTA

Sam Muller, HiiL

Venkatesh Narayanamurti, Harvard Kennedy School

Patrick Nee, Universal Bio Mining

Timothy J. Noonan, International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)

Beth Simone Noveck, New York University

Jeremy OBrien, University of Bristol

Ruth Okediji, Harvard Law School

Ian Oppermann, Government of New South Wales, Australia

Tim OReilly, OReilly Media

Michael Osborne, University of Oxford

Olivier Oullier, Emotiv

Tony Pan, Modern Electron