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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Minister for SMEs, Innovation and Digital Economy of France
Graduate, ESSEC business school, Institut d'études politiques, Paris, and ENA (National School of Administration). Former public auditor, Cour des ...
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Toshiba Professor of Media, Arts and Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA
Pioneer in "big data", social networks, mobile information systems and computational social science. One of the most cited scientists in the ...
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President of Israel
Advanced studies in Agriculture, New School for Social Research, New York and Harvard University. 1953-59, Director-General, Ministry of Defence; ...
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Minister of Housing and Urbanism and Minister of National Property of Chile
Civil Engineer, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile; MBA, IESE, University of Navarra, Spain. March 2010 - April 2011, Intendant, Bernardo ...
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President of Guatemala
Studies, American Defense College, Washington DC; Advanced Management Program, INCAE / Harvard Business School; Master's (Hons) in International ...
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President and Chief Executive Officer, Volvo, Sweden
BA in Business Administration. Began career with ABB; held a number of executive positions with AdTranz and Bombardier, including: 2004-06, ...
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Founder and Managing Partner, Forum for Active Philanthropy, Germany
PhD, Cambridge University. 1998-2002, Programme Director, Media and Education, Bertelsmann Foundation, Germany; 2002-06, Director, Donor ...
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President, Standard & Poor's, USA
BA in Mathematics and History, Claremont McKenna College; MBA, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Over 20 years with Citigroup including: ...
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President, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Bachelor's degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics, and Master's degree in Engineering, Kansas State University; PhD in Mechanical ...
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Director-General, Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), Sweden
Former consultant in marketing and communications. 1997-2003, Head of Communications, then Undersecretary-General, Swedish Red Cross; 2003, ...
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Professor of Criminal Law and Criminology, University of Basel, Switzerland
Formerly: Member, Financial Action Task Force and Head, Section of Economic and Organized Crime, Swiss Ministry of Justice and Police; Member, ...
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UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Geneva
BA and LLB, Natal University, South Africa; Master's in Law and doctorate in Juridical Science, Harvard University. 1967, first woman to start law ...