Martín Burt will be a panelist at the World Economic Forum in Davos

Martín Burt was invited to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland to give a lecture on his poverty eradication programs.

At the 2023 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos next week, Burt will be one of the panelists at the event called: “Rethinking Politics for a New Era of Poverty,” which aims to take stock of the most recent data to create a picture of what poverty means today and explore the implications for public policy and private sector strategies.

Martín Burt will be part of the panel, on Tuesday, January 17, along with Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director of UNAIDS; Vilas Dhar, President of the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation; Helen Clark, former Prime Minister of New Zealand; and Gargee Gosh, President of Global Policy and Advocacy at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

On the occasion, the experts will try to provide answers, based on their experiences, to the following questions: Is poverty today the same as before, or is there something new about it in the contemporary context, while we face the continuous effects of the pandemic of covid-19 and the so-called global ‘polycrisis’?; What are the limitations in the way we understand and talk about poverty today?

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