Nico Daswani is a two-time Emmy award winning art director, cultural worker and executive producer with a 20-year track record of creating inclusive change. As Director of Arts and Culture at the World Economic Forum, he has curated the arts and culture program at Davos for 8 years with the goal of increasing inclusion and access, building bridges across sectors and speaking truth to power. In the process, he has created a global community of artists and cultural institutions coming together to create positive change.
The World Economic Forum is the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation. The Forum engages society's top political, business, cultural and other leaders to shape global, regional and industry agendas. It was established in 1971 as a non-profit foundation and is based in Geneva, Switzerland. It is independent, impartial and not tied to any special interests. The Forum strives in all its efforts to demonstrate entrepreneurship in the global public interest, while maintaining the highest standards of governance. Moral and intellectual integrity is at the heart of everything it does.