Our fortunes rise together, and they fall together. 'All men are brothers,' said the Analects. We have a collective responsibility-to bring about a more stable and more prosperous world, a world in which every person in every country can reach their full potential.

I love cooking. Not for myself alone. Cooking is about giving.

People can buy the kind of things they consider as normal and take for granted because of globalization and trade and use of supply chains and the reduction of the cost base of the manufacturing of some products.

Consumption has massively benefited from globalization.

Massive progress has been made in the last five years. More progress has to be made in terms of fiscal union and banking union.

The Egyptian society needs to include its women if it wants to have economic prosperity.

If climate change issues are not adequately addressed—if we keep running those nice energy subsidies, if the price on carbon is not adequately set, if policymakers don’t have it on their radar screens—then financial stability in the medium and long-term is clearly at stake.