Premier Mercedes Araoz and Finance minister Claudia Cooper are scheduled to fly to Switzerland today, to attend the World Economic Forum in Davos-Klosters.
The three-day forum, which brings together the world’s leaders in business, academia and government, opens Jan. 23. This year’s theme is Creating a Shared Future in a Fractured World.
Cooper will participate as a panelist in a session on Implementing Strategies for Inclusive Growth. She will also be a speaker on regional policies and their possible impact on Peru, in sessions of the strategic perspectives for Latin America and New Alliances in the Pacific.
Over 21% of the leaders convening at the global summit this year are women. The co-chairs of the annual meeting this year represent that accomplishment — Sharan Burrow, General Secretary, International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), Belgium; Fabiola Gianotti, Director-General, European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva; Isabelle Kocher, Chief Executive Officer, ENGIE, France; Christine Lagarde, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington DC; Ginni Rometty, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, IBM Corporation, USA; Chetna Sinha, Founder and Chair, Mann Deshi Foundation, India; and Erna Solberg, Prime Minister of Norway.
The opening address will be delivered Jan. 23 by Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India.
