The forums will also turn its attention towards humanitarian assistance as natural disasters have more than doubled since 1980 as a result of climate change, population increase and rapid urbanization. It will try developing innovative public-private partnership solutions to deal with the aftermath of natural disasters.

Its Global Education Initiative has helped over 1.8 million students and teachers and mobilized over USD 100 million in resource support to various countries. There will be a renewed push to raise awareness on the education sector.

It would also hold a discussion on ‘Corporate Global Citizenship’ dealing with how companies should engage in society.