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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warns leaders: Support immigration or risk missing tech boom
Jan. 22, 2020

Microsoft Corp’s chief executive officer warned that countries that fail to attract immigrants will lose out as the global tech industry continues to grow.

“Every country is rethinking what is in their national interest," Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella said in an interview with Bloomberg News Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait Tuesday at Davos. “People will only come when people know you’re an immigrant friendly country.

Nadella has previously voiced concern about Citizenship Amendment Act, which bans undocumented Muslim migrants from neighboring countries from seeking citizenship in India while allowing immigrants from other religions to do so, calling it “sad."

However he said he remained hopeful. “I’m an India optimist" he said. “The fact that there is a 70-year history of nation building, I think it’s a very strong foundation. I grew up in that country. I’m proud of that heritage. I’m influenced by that experience."

Microsoft has also recently unveiled plans to invest $1 billion to back companies and organizations working on technologies to remove or reduce carbon from the atmosphere, saying efforts to merely emit less carbon aren’t enough to prevent catastrophic climate change.