'Collaboration for the Intelligent Age' was the theme of a meeting convened in 2025 under the aegis of

Correct — A, the World Economic Forum. "Collaboration for the Intelligent Age" was the theme of the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting held at Davos-Klosters in January 2025. The Forum picks a single theme for each Davos meeting and organises its sessions under it, and the 2025 theme placed artificial intelligence and the cooperation needed to govern it at the centre of the programme. The clue is in the wording: only the World Economic Forum brands its annual gathering with a slogan of this kind. The G7, the G20 and the World Trade Organization work through summits and ministerial conferences that are named for their host or their round rather than given a theme of this style.

• (b)the G7 — The G7 is a grouping of seven advanced economies whose summits are identified by their host country and venue, not by a themed slogan of this kind.
• (c)the G20 — The G20 does adopt a presidency motto — India's was Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam, One Earth, One Family, One Future — but that is a country's presidency theme running through a year of meetings, not the name of a single convened meeting in the Davos style.
• (d)the World Trade Organization — The World Trade Organization's gatherings are Ministerial Conferences, numbered in sequence and named for their host city. They are negotiating sessions and are not given themes of this kind.

The World Economic Forum is an international organisation for public-private cooperation, based at Cologny near Geneva and founded by Klaus Schwab in 1971. Its best-known activity is the Annual Meeting at Davos in the Swiss Alps each January, which brings together heads of government, corporate leaders, academics and civil society under one theme. The Forum also publishes a series of widely cited reports, among them the Global Risks Report, the Global Gender Gap Report and the Energy Transition Index.

Theme-to-organisation items are answered by recognising the house style of each body. Davos themes are always abstract noun phrases of this shape — cooperation, trust, rebuilding, an age or an era — and they change every year. A useful discriminator is that a theme naming a technological age almost certainly belongs to the Forum, because its programme is organised around technology and business. The G20 distractor is the sharpest one here, since G20 presidencies do adopt mottos; the difference is that a presidency motto covers a whole year of meetings under one country's chairmanship.

• "Collaboration for the Intelligent Age" was the theme of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2025.
• The Annual Meeting is held each January at Davos-Klosters in Switzerland.
• The World Economic Forum was founded in 1971 by Klaus Schwab and is headquartered near Geneva.
• Its regular publications include the Global Risks Report, the Global Gender Gap Report and the Energy Transition Index.
• India's G20 presidency theme in 2023 was Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam — One Earth, One Family, One Future.

• Attributing a Davos theme to the G20 because G20 presidencies also adopt mottos.
• Assuming the World Economic Forum is an intergovernmental body; it is a private foundation.
• Mixing up the Forum's Annual Meeting with its regional summits held elsewhere in the year.

Asked as a theme-to-body recall item, decided by knowing which international gathering brands itself with an annual theme.

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  The World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting is held each year at

  • (a)Geneva
  • (b)Davos
  • (c)Zurich
  • (d)Basel

  Answer(b) Davos — the alpine resort in the Swiss canton of Graubunden.

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  Which report is published by the World Economic Forum?

  • (a)World Economic Outlook
  • (b)Human Development Report
  • (c)Global Gender Gap Report
  • (d)World Development Report

  Answer(c) Global Gender Gap Report — the others belong to the IMF, UNDP and World Bank respectively.