World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2013
Speakers
The Annual meeting of the World Economic forum involves some 3,000 participants representing all sectors of global society, from business and government to civil society, spiritual and media leaders. The people on these pages appear in the public programme, streamed live and archived on the internet.
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Editor-in-Chief, The New England Journal of Medicine, USA
BS in Applied Physics, Tufts University; MD, Harvard Medical School. Formerly: Intern, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital; with Pulmonary Divisions, ...
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President and Chief Executive Officer, Wal-Mart Stores, USA; Co-Chair of the Governors for the Consumer Industries 2013
Bachelor's in Industrial Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology. Formerly: over 23 years' experience in retailing with Federated Department ...
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President and Chief Executive Officer, FTI Consulting, USA
Since 1992, with FTI Consulting, including Member of the Board.
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Chief Sustainability Officer, BT, United Kingdom
BSc, Manhattan College, New York. Formerly: a decade leading sustainability practices in Saatchi & Saatchi and Accenture; founded Bluvolution, a ...
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President and Chief Executive Officer, Breakthrough, USA
Formerly: Associate Director, Center for Women's Global Leadership, Rutgers University; Programme Officer, Human Rights, Ford Foundation's New ...
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Executive Director, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM), Switzerland
1985, AB and 1992, MD, Georgetown. 1995, residency in Internal Medicine, University of Chicago Hospitals. 1998, Fellowship in Infectious Diseases, ...
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Chairman, EDventure Holdings, USA
1972, BA in Economics, Harvard. Angel investor. 1998-2000, Founding Chairman, ICANN; Director: 23andMe; Eventful.com; NewspaperDirect; WPP Group; ...
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President and Chief Executive Officer, Duke University Medical Center and Health System, Duke University, USA
BSc and MD, McGill University. Formerly: Professor of Medicine, Stanford University; Professor of Theory and Practice of Medicine, Harvard ...
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Senior Editor and Columnist, Fortune Magazine, USA
Graduate, University of California, Berkeley. Formerly, 10 years with the Los Angeles Times. Currently, with Fortune Magazine: Senior Editor; ...
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President and Chief Executive Officer, Edelman, USA
BA and MBA, Harvard. Member of the Board: Ad Council; Atlantic Council; Children's Aid Society; National Committee on US-China Relations. Member, ...
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Minister of Foreign Affairs of Norway
Political Scientist. With Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI): 1993-99, Senior Researcher, including international peacekeeping, ...
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Artist, Studio Olafur Eliasson, Germany
Artist whose work spans installation and sculpture, photography and film, based in Copenhagen and Berlin. Early 1990s, founded Studio Olafur ...