Good morning, Peter Vanham here in Geneva, filling in for Alan.
Is anyone still afraid of the pandemic? As the world faces recession fears, bank failures, spiraling inflation, the war in Ukraine, A.I. disruption, and U.S.-China tensions, pandemic concerns may well have fallen out of the top 5 worries of most CEOs.
Not so for Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization, whom I met in his office in Geneva earlier this week. His top concern, he told me, is that the world may not properly prepare for the next pandemic—and that we haven’t learned from the last.
