The 2025 Annual Assembly of the World Financial Discussion board (WEF) takes place from 20-24 January in Davos, Switzerland. Here is a have a look at what will be anticipated at this yr’s assembly.
Davos is welcoming world leaders for the World Financial Discussion board 2025 this week with the assembly convening underneath the title Collaboration for the Clever Age. Discussions will span geo-economic uncertainty, AI, reimagining development and safeguarding the planet, amongst different matters.
Some 3,000 leaders are anticipated to attend from over 130 international locations. Round 350 governmental leaders, together with 60 heads of states and authorities, from all key areas, may even be within the mountain resort.
“If the gulf between hopes and fears was in stark proof final yr, the context for Davos 2025 isn’t any much less conflicted. Geo-economic uncertainty, commerce tensions, cultural polarisation, and local weather anxiousness are rumbling however there’s additionally the promise of fast innovation – AI, quantum computing and biotech – to spice up productiveness and residing requirements,” a WEF press launch famous.
Who’s coming to Davos 2025?
Participation is various – by sectors, industries, generations, and gender.
“This range is prime to the Discussion board’s method to make sure that crucial points on the earth are mentioned as broadly as attainable and options are designed with a various, cross-sectoral lens,” the WEF press launch mentioned.
Public figures
Greater than 350 governmental leaders are anticipated to take part this yr, together with 60 heads of state and authorities:
Prime political leaders participating embody: Donald J. Trump, President-elect of america (who will be part of by way of dwell video hyperlink for an interactive dialogue with contributors) – and Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Fee.
Ding Xuexiang, Vice-Premier of the Folks’s Republic of China; Javier Milei, President of Argentina; Olaf Scholz, Federal Chancellor of Germany; Roberta Metsola, President of the European Parliament; Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa, President of South Africa and Pedro Sánchez, Prime Minister of Spain, may even be on the occasion.
Furthermore, the assembly will welcome Karin Keller-Sutter, President of the Swiss Confederation 2025, Federal Councillor, Head of the Federal Division of Finance; Nikol Pashinyan, Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia; Ilham Aliyev, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan; Muhammad Yunus, Chief Adviser of the Authorities of Bangladesh; Alexander De Croo, Prime Minister of Belgium; Félix-Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo; Mostafa Madbouli, Prime Minister of Egypt; Abdulatif Rashid, President of Iraq.
Simon Harris, Taoiseach of Eire; Isaac Herzog, President of Israel; Prime Minister of the Netherlands; Mohammed Mustafa and Prime Minister of the Palestinian Nationwide Authority; Dina Ercilia Boluarte may even be attending, in addition to Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the President of Ukraine.
Worldwide organisations
Heads of worldwide organisations participating embody: António Guterres, Secretary-Normal of the United Nations; Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director-Normal of the World Commerce Organisation; Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director of the Worldwide Financial Fund and Mark Rutte, Secretary-Normal of NATO.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-Normal of the World Well being Organisation and Achim Steiner, Administrator of the United Nations Improvement Programme, may even be in Davos.
Personal sector and discussion board communities
Over 1,600 enterprise leaders, together with over 900 of the world’s prime CEOs and Chairs from the World Financial Discussion board’s Members and Companions, may even take part, over 120 of that are International Innovators, Tech Pioneers and Unicorns who’re reworking industries.
“Greater than 170 leaders from civil society and the social sector – from labour unions, non-governmental organisations, spiritual and indigenous communities, in addition to specialists and heads of the world’s main universities, analysis establishments and assume tanks – will take part within the assembly,” the WEF additionally famous in a press launch.
Greater than 160 members of the Discussion board’s communities, together with the Unicorn and Expertise Pioneers communities, the Group of International Shapers, the Discussion board of Younger International Leaders and the Schwab Basis for Social Entrepreneurship may even attend to showcase native improvements and options to world challenges.