Two-time Academy Award-winner Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy will be featuring in an exclusive one-on-one session with ace Bollywood director Karan Johar on Wednesday in connection with the 47thWorld Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos-Klosters.
The discussion has been titled ‘A conversation with Karan Johar and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy.’
Sharmeen will also be featuring in a panel discussion “A Positive Narrative for the Global Community” comprising of a diversity of panelists such as Chief Operating Officer and Member of the Board, Facebook, USA Sheryl Sandberg, Ahmad Founder of Afghanistan National Institute of Music (ANIM)Sarmast and President and Chief Executive Officer, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, USA Meg Whitman. The panel discussion will be chaired by BBC World News Presenter Zeinab Badawi.
An earlier session had Sharmeen discuss topics such as using art to further empathy, bringing people together and how the language of hate often trumps the language of inclusion. The documentary filmmaker also met Hollywood star George Clooney and was also spotted with fellow Academy Award-winner Forest Whitaker
Sharmeen is the first artist ever to Co-Chair to prestigious forum’s annual meeting which is taking place in Davos-Klosters until the 20th of January 2017, under the theme “Responsive and Responsible Leadership”.
The World Economic Forum Annual Meeting for 2017 is highlighting five distinct challenges facing the word in 2017: a breakdown in global collaboration; loss of identity; slow economic growth; a crisis in capitalism and preparing for the oncoming Fourth Industrial Revolution. Along with SharmeenObaid-Chinoy, taking a principal role in shaping the discussion at the Annual Meeting 2017 are Co-Chairs Brian T. Moynihan of Bank of America, HelleThorning-Schmidt of Save the Children International, Frans van Houten of Royal Philips and Meg Whitman of Hewlett-Packard Enterprise.
