Who will participate:
Participation in the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting is by invitation only and strictly limited to the criteria and quota of each stakeholder group.
Of the 2500 participants at the Annual Meeting, more than half come from the business sector. With over 900 chief executives from our Strategic, Industry, Regional Partners and Global Growth Company Partners, they represent the world’s foremost global corporations in the following sectors: Basic Industries, Consumer, Financial Institutions, Information Technology, Electronics & Telecommunications, Mobility, Energy, Health, Media, and Professional Services.
The non-business participants include:• Government representatives of the world’s top 25 economies and fast-growing small countries, including heads of state and government, ministers of finance and economy, and ministers of foreign affairs as well as governors and mayors of the world’s top regions and cities.
• Civil Society leaders from international NGOs, trade union leaders, religious and faith community leaders, cultural and sports leaders.
• Thought Leaders related to the foremost challenges on the global agenda, heads of the Forum’s Global Agenda Councils.
• Academia: presidents of the world’s top universities, leaders of the world’s top think tanks, and experts related to particular issues in the programme
• Media: publishers, editors-in-chief, top columnists and economic editors
• Civil Society leaders from international NGOs, trade union leaders, religious and faith community leaders, cultural and sports leaders.
• Thought Leaders related to the foremost challenges on the global agenda, heads of the Forum’s Global Agenda Councils.
• Academia: presidents of the world’s top universities, leaders of the world’s top think tanks, and experts related to particular issues in the programme
• Media: publishers, editors-in-chief, top columnists and economic editors
Other stakeholders include:
• Young Global Leaders from the Forum’s Community of Young Global Leaders, representing the voice of the future.
• CEOs of companies whose technologies are changing business models represented by the Forum’s Community of Technology Pioneers.
• Social Entrepreneurs from the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship
• Trade Union leaders
• Reporting press
• Young Global Leaders from the Forum’s Community of Young Global Leaders, representing the voice of the future.
• CEOs of companies whose technologies are changing business models represented by the Forum’s Community of Technology Pioneers.
• Social Entrepreneurs from the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship
• Trade Union leaders
• Reporting press
Annual Meeting History Timeline:
2009
• In association with Qatar, Singapore and Switzerland, the World Economic Forum initiates a global, multistakeholder dialogue on a wider global cooperation system. The aim is to examine ways of improving global governance to meet a changing international reality.
• World leaders at the Annual Meeting 2009 celebrate the 10th anniversary of the UN’s Global Compact, which was launched at the Annual Meeting in 1999.
• The Annual Meeting 2009 provides a global platform for four heads of government from the G8 (Germany, Japan, Russia and United Kingdom) as well as from China and from G20 members in Africa, Asia and Latin America, to help the international community explore the origins of the financial crisis and to begin work on solutions based on a common understanding of the situation.
• In association with Qatar, Singapore and Switzerland, the World Economic Forum initiates a global, multistakeholder dialogue on a wider global cooperation system. The aim is to examine ways of improving global governance to meet a changing international reality.
• World leaders at the Annual Meeting 2009 celebrate the 10th anniversary of the UN’s Global Compact, which was launched at the Annual Meeting in 1999.
• The Annual Meeting 2009 provides a global platform for four heads of government from the G8 (Germany, Japan, Russia and United Kingdom) as well as from China and from G20 members in Africa, Asia and Latin America, to help the international community explore the origins of the financial crisis and to begin work on solutions based on a common understanding of the situation.
2008 • At the Annual Meeting 2008, the Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda unveils a five-year, US$ 10 billion fund to support efforts in developing countries to combat global warming. At the same Meeting, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announces a US$ 306 million package of agricultural development grants.
2006
• The Global Plan to Stop Tuberculosis (2006-2015) is launched by Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown and Bill Gates at the Annual Meeting 2006. The project – a coalition of over 400 organizations – aims to treat 50 million people and prevent 14 million tuberculosis deaths worldwide over 10 years.
• The Global Plan to Stop Tuberculosis (2006-2015) is launched by Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown and Bill Gates at the Annual Meeting 2006. The project – a coalition of over 400 organizations – aims to treat 50 million people and prevent 14 million tuberculosis deaths worldwide over 10 years.
Corporate Global CitizenshipImproving the state of the world through business’s engagement in partnerships that address key global societal challenges
Corporate Global Citizenship is anchored in the mission of the World Economic Forum. We believe that corporate global citizenship is fundamentally in the enlightened self-interest of global corporations since their growth, prosperity and sustainability is dependent on the state of the global political, economic, environmental and social landscape. The license to operate in a global market and to make profits entails a responsibility of being engaged in society.
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