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The World Economic Forum is not without its critics. One of the more outspoken is political economist Susan George, president of the Amsterdam-based Transnational Institute campaigning for social justice and honorary president of Attac France, a founding organisation of the World Social Forum. That meeting was started as a counterweight to the annual meeting in Davos.
WRS’s Lucas Chambers spoke to George and began by asking her why she is such a critic of the World Economic Forum when, in theory, they share the same goal of improving the state of the world: