World Economic Forum 2017

Six members of the Federal Council travel to the WEF. Alain Berset discusses the social and health effects of digitalisation with Andrus Ansip, Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for the Digital Single Market. He also sees Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO, Mélanie Joly, Canadian Minister of Canadian Heritage, and Pierre Moscovici, European Commissioner.

On 18 January, together with the German and Dutch health ministers, Hermann Gröhe and Edith Schippers, he co-chairs a closed-door session on antibiotic resistance: how to encourage industry to develop new antimicrobials. In the afternoon, he interrupts his stay in Davos to bid farewell to the Chinese President in Geneva.

Wednesday 18 January 2017 — Davos, Geneva

• Meeting with Alois Zwinggi, Managing Director of the WEF
• Meeting with Andrus Ansip, Vice-President of the European Commission
• Meeting with Jörg Reinhardt, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Novartis
• Meeting with Mélanie Joly, Canadian Minister of Canadian Heritage
• Session on antimicrobial resistance, co-chaired by Alain Berset
• Departure for Geneva

Thursday 19 January 2017 — Davos

• Meeting with Charles Michel, Belgian Prime Minister, together with the President of the Confederation
• Meeting of the WEF governors on global health
• Meeting with Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO
• Meeting with Pierre Moscovici, European Commissioner

Sources

• Federal Council, press release of 13.01.2017