Young Global Leaders on Davos 2025

Leaders from around the globe will convene under the theme “Collaboration for the Intelligent Age” at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, from January 20 to January 24.

McKinsey’s priority themes for this year include AI transformation, resilience and geopolitics, the energy transition, women’s health, 21st-century leadership, and space.

Every year, ahead of Davos, McKinsey Global Publishing’s Raju Narisetti, an alumnus of the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders (YGLs)—a group that includes professionals in business, media, nongovernmental organizations, and not-for-profit organizations from around the world—has asked a wide range of YGLs about the one topic they think deserves more attention in Davos than it will likely receive. This year, 22 YGLs highlighted topics from the gender gap and women’s health to the importance of humanitarian law, the value of science and medicine, and autonomous warfare, as worth more of our attention.