Annual Meeting 2008: Partners Strategic Partners are select member companies of the World Economic Forum who strongly support the Forum's commitment to improve the state of the world. They are actively involved in the Foundation's endeavours at the global, regional and industry levels. They contribute their expertise and resources at the highest level in order to advance worldwide economic and social progress. ABB ABN AMRO Bank Accel Partners Accenture Alcoa AMD American International Group (AIG) Apax Partners ArcelorMittal AT&T Audi Avaya Bahrain Economic Development Board Bain & Company Barclays PLC Basic Element Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Bombardier Booz Allen Hamilton BP BT Burda Media CA Cerberus Capital Management Chevron Corporation Cisco Citi Clayton, Dubilier & Rice Clifford Chance Credit Suisse Deloitte Deutsche Bank Deutsche Post World Net Dogus Group Dubai Holding Dubai World DuPont Electricité de France (EDF) Emirates Group Ernst & Young FedEx Corporation Fluor Corporation Forbes Goldman Sachs Google Heidrick & Struggles HP HSBC Holdings Infosys Technologies Intel Corporation Investor JPMorgan Chase KPMG Kudelski Group Lehman Brothers Lenovo Manpower Marsh & McLennan Companies (MMC) McKinsey & Company Merck & Co. Merrill Lynch METRO Group Microsoft Corporation Morgan Stanley Mubadala NASDAQ OMX Group NBC Universal Nestlé Nike Nomura Holdings NYSE Euronext PepsiCo PricewaterhouseCoopers Reliance Industries Renault-Nissan Roland Berger Strategy Consultants Satyam Computer Services Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) Siemens Silver Lake SK Group Standard Chartered Bank Swiss International Air Lines Swiss Re The Boston Consulting Group The Coca-Cola Company The Olayan Group Thomson Reuters Travelport UBS Unilever VimpelCom Volkswagen VTB Bank WPP Xenel Group Zurich Financial Services