The next billion workers: how can countries attract the global workforce of the future?
The geography of global talent pools is shifting. Government leaders must deploy targeted strategies to attract the workforce of the future.
Johann Harnoss is a Partner and Associate Director at BCG, advising private and public sector clients on solving growth and innovation challenges. He is also a Fellow at the BCG Henderson Institute, where he leads the firm’s research agenda on global talent migration. His work has appeared in the Journal of Economic Growth, Harvard Business Review, and MIT Sloan Management Review, among other publications.
Harnoss is the co-founder and CEO of Imagine Foundation, an NGO dedicated to supporting legal skilled migration from the MENA region to Europe. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the Paris School of Economics, as well as a Master in Economics from Harvard University.
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