Who will participate

Participation to 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

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.
• Trade Union leaders
• Reporting press