EDITORIAL

Shared Strengths, Strokes and Successes

By Hasina Parvin | 2nd Nov 2020

Editor’s Foreword

By Hasina Parvin,

CEO and Editor-in-Chief, World Growth Forums

World Growth Forums Magazine November 2020

Brilliant minds are capable of creating resourcefulness where most would struggle to survive. Seemingly insurmountable challenges can be transformed into easy-to-handle tasks, if like-minded people join hands and heads together. The simple philosophy that two conscious minds automatically create a third sub-conscious one, multiply ideas and open avenues to millions of shared opportunities, is enough to reach great heights, if believed with a true heart and implemented sincerely. Remember, who knows the unknown to others, the impossible is available to him/her.

As the world is struggling to get a grip on lost opportunities and brace for the upcoming challenges, a wide sea of sparkling water and a clear blue sky awaits for those who wish to set sails for the faraway treasures, and fly high to fresher horizons. It’s time to stretch wings and let the imagination run amok, mingle with missions of many others and create mutual opportunities of growth and broad pedestals of success, where all can stand together and rejoice.

Each hand held firmly together offers a hope and confidence that impossible would evaporate into thin air, while innumerable possibles would start materializing from all directions as a result of every sincere effort.

World Growth Forums has continued in its long and firm strides of growth and expansion, consistently crossing more national borders and holding hands with great personalities from around the world, while deeply focused on its vision of creating positivities and possibilities for all to grow together.

In our current issue of World Growth Forums Magazine, we discuss why we need continued strong policy action to combat continued uncertainty, while the all-virtual G20 Summit at Riyadh, Saudi Arabia discusses challenges and solutions before the global economy which continues to face a critical juncture.

The United Nations General Assembly has adopted by consensus the biannual resolution entitled ‘Literacy for Life: Shaping Future Agenda’ to emphasize that literacy is a foundation for lifelong learning, a building block for achieving human rights and fundamental freedoms and a driver of sustainable development.

World Bank has published Outlook 2050 Strategic Directions Note: Supporting Countries to Meet Long-Term Goals of Decarbonization, to highlight the huge risks climate change poses to countries’ long-term development and growth, with critical implications for poverty, food security and health.

World Economic Forum – with the help of its enviable pool of experts and top global think tanks – has reported in collaboration with McKinsey & Company that a transition to carbon-neutral flying is possible, with Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF), the most promising decarbonization option in the near term.

World Health Organization has established the Council on the Economics of Health for All comprising top economists and health experts, who will focus on investments in health, and on achieving sustainable, inclusive and innovation-led economic growth.

Under our series on WGF Women of Extraordinary Excellence of 2020 and Top Nation Builders of 2020, we bring to you positive stories of triumph and good & decisive actions and developments around the world.

Kamala Harris, Vice President-Elect, United States has paved a path of perpetual possibilities, and has scripted history by becoming the first woman, first black, first South Asian and first daughter of immigrants ever elected to national office in the US.

Indian-origin politician Priyanca Radhakrishnan has created history by becoming the first Indian-Kiwi woman to become a Minister in New Zealand.

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Chairperson & Managing Director, Biocon Limited, continues to inspire millions – men and women alike – through her superlative intellect, vision and enterprise.

Datuk Mark Victor Rozario, Former Chief Executive Officer, General Electric (GE), Malaysia – a versatile CEO with unique experience of leading a Government Statutory Body, Malaysian Listed Conglomerates and MNCs – shares how you must be prepared to disrupt yourself before someone else disrupts you.

B. Norman Nathan, Secretary-General, Malaysian Global Business Council (MGBC), and National Director for Malaysia Indo-OIC Islamic Chamber of Commerce and Industry (IICCI), shares how he has contributed to nation building as he worked with Governments of Malaysia, Mauritius and Trinidad & Tobago, the Commonwealth Office in London, and taught students who are now Ministers and top-level Senior Decision Makers in the Mauritius Government Service.

World Growth Forums understands that there are exclusive and extraordinary nation builders who possess peerless excellence, through which they have been consistently pioneering ingenious pathways of growth in the country of their primary profession, and then in the world as a chain reaction.

Honoring such rare excellence at an exclusive Platform of Excellence, World Growth Forums is committed to positive growth of the world. In partnership with the exclusive and extraordinary nation builders, World Growth Forums desires all willing and deserving heads & hands to converge to create a better world.

Hasina Parvin
CEO & Editor-in-Chief, World Growth Forums, India
@WGForums