DAVOS: The first ever artist to co-chair the 47th World Economic Forum annual meeting, Academy Award-winner Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy is all set to be a part of a session titled ‘Responsive and Responsible Leadership in 2017’ on the last day of the prestigious annual meeting. Also featuring in the session will be CNBC Anchor Geoff Cutmore, Royal Phillips CEO & President Frans van Houten, Bank of America CEO & Chairman Brian T Moyniham and Save the Children International CEO Helle Thorning-Schmidt. On Wednesday, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy featured in an exclusive one-on-one session with Bollywood director and producer Karan Johar, titled ‘A Conversation with Karan Johar & Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy along with a panel discussion titled, ‘A Positive Narrative for the Global Community’ comprising of a diversity of panellists such as Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, Afghanistan National Institute of Music Founder Ahmad Sarmast and Hewlett Packard CEO & President Meg Whitman. The panel discussion will be chaired by BBC World News Presenter Zeinab Badawi. Sharmeen featured in another panel discussion titled ‘Disrupting the Status Quo of Gender Roles’ comprising of panellists such as Reinventing Business for All Vice President Cynthia Castro, IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde, PwC Global Chairman Robert E Mortiz and Isabel de Saint Malo de Alvarado who is the vice president of Panama & Minister of Foreign Office of the Vice President Panama with Enrique Acevedo as the moderator. “Women have to take the step and be disruptive to make a change for gender equality. How many male CEOs get asked, how do you juggle being a CEO and having a family?”said Sharmeen during the panel discussion. In addition to this, Sharmeen also opened the evening hosted by Abraaj titled ‘Investing in Pakistan’ on Wednesday. In attendance were Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, Prince Talal, Anusha Rahman, Saira Tarar and Hussain Dawood along with other prominent Pakistani personalities and potential international investors. The Oscar winning documentary short, ‘A Girl in the River’ was also screened during WEF on Tuesday, titled ‘The Transformative Power of Film’ where Sharmeen talked about her experience working on the documentary and the impact it made in the country. The World Economic Forum annual meeting for 2017 highlighted five distinct challenges facing the word in 2017: a breakdown in global collaboration; loss of identity; slow economic growth; a crisis in capitalism and preparing for the oncoming Fourth Industrial Revolution. The annual meeting convened more than 2,500 participants from nearly 100 countries to take part in over 300 sessions. Established since 1971, the WEF is committed to improving the state of the world. The WEF annual meeting in Davos-Klosters remains the foremost creative force for engaging the world’s top leaders in collaborative activities to shape the global, regional and industry agendas at the beginning of each year.