Annual Meeting 2009: 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 Abraaj Capital Accel Partners Accenture Adobe Systems Incorporated Agility Alcatel-Lucent Alcoa Apax Partners ArcelorMittal AT&T AUDI AG Bahrain Economic Development Board Bahrain Mumtalakat Holding Company Bain & Company Bank of America Barclays PLC Basic Element Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Bombardier Booz & Company The Boston Consulting Group BP BT CA, Inc. Chevron Cisco Citi Clayton, Dubilier & Rice Clifford Chance The Coca-Cola Company Credit Suisse Deloitte Deutsche Bank Deutsche Post DHL Dogus Group Dow Chemical Company Dubai Holding DuPont Ernst & Young Eskom Holdings Etihad Airways Fluor Coporation GE/NBC Universal Goldman Sachs Google Hanwha Group HCL Technologies Heidrick & Struggles HP HSBC Huawei Technologies Hubert Burda Media IHS Inc. Infosys Technologies Intel Corporation Investor JPMorgan Chase & Co. Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. KPMG Kudelski Group Lenovo Mahindra Satyam Manpower Marsh & McLennan Companies (MMC) McKinsey & Company Merck & Co. Inc. METRO Group Microsoft Corporation Morgan Stanley NASDAQ OMX Group National Bank of Kuwait Nestlé News Corporation Nike Inc. Nomura Holdings NYSE Euronext The Olayan Group Omnicom Group PepsiCo PricewaterhouseCoopers Reliance Industries Renault-Nissan Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) Sberbank Siemens SK Group The Standard Bank Group Limited Standard Chartered Bank Swiss International Air Lines Swiss Re System Capital Management Thomson Reuters Troika Dialog Group UBS Unilever VimpelCom Visa Inc. Vision 3 Volkswagen AG VTB Bank WPP Zurich Financial Services