Fresh from our Davos panel discussion with Queen Rania Al-Abdullah of Jordan and Gordon Brown, British Chancellor of the Exchequer…

January 26th, 2007

Her Majesty commended the World Economic Forum and the British Council for bringing young people to Davos. “This is a generation of content creators,” she said, “active agents…people we have to bring into the conversation.”Gordon Brown said that he had come to listen. He hailed “the youngest ever platform at Davos…apart from me.”

Reacting to our presentation, the Queen described the proposal as ‘very doable’.

“We have to look for quality…The thing that brings education to life are quality teachers…It’s about bringing honour back to the profession.”

Gordon Brown praised the proposal for a Global Fund for Education as “idealism combined with a plan for action.”

He called on all the major countries to come together to support quality education, while underlining the need to teach students to be global citizens.

Supporting the formation of a virtual or real world fund for education, he warned that “if we don’t make this effort, there will be a very heavy price to pay because others will do what we should have done years ago.”

A fund needs “a mobilisation of resources and energy…it’s something we could do.”

Her Majesty, the Queen told the team how proud she was to be part of the panel. “You are potentially a politically transformative force,” she said.

Closing the session on behalf of the Greenwich 60, Yoo-Sun Andrea Choi thanked the world’s leaders for their attention.

“We hope you will jump into the boat we have created,” she told them.

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