Gautam Adani addressed the 20th Forbes Global CEO conference in Singapore on 27 September and spoke about borderless and limitless socio-economic growth post pandemic. The theme of the conference was “The Way Forward.”
Speaking at the conference, Adani said, “We all realise that the last few decades have been a time of remarkable economic growth for the world. In this context, the conference theme “The Way Forward” is fascinating. Because the lenses through which you and I define ‘the way forward’ may not be the same anymore. In my view, globalisation is at an inflexion point. It will look very different from what we had come to accept in a largely unipolar world. Many of us, including I, bought into Thomas Friedman’s socio-economic business model that claimed, ‘The World Is Flat’. We had started to believe that the digital revolution marked the ‘end of borders’. We accepted that market deregulation and economic integration had set in motion a gravity-defying era of economic progress. This seemed to be a logical summary of borderless and limitless growth.”
