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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Prime Minister of Sweden
1990-91, Deputy Secretary to Stockholm City Commissioner; 1991, Secretary to Stockholm City Commissioner; 1991, Member, Riksdag; 1991-94, ...
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Member of the Board of Management, Daimler; Chief Executive Officer, Daimler Trucks and Daimler Buses, Daimler, Germany
1983, diploma in Industrial Engineering and Management, Technical College, Esslingen, Germany; MBA, Eberhard-Karls University, Tübingen, Germany. ...
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Director, Karuna-Shechen, France
PhD in Cellular Genetics, France. Buddhist monk studying Buddhism in Himalayas for last 40 years. Founder, Karuna-Shechen, a humanitarian ...
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Vice-Chairman, GE, Hong Kong SAR
BA in Economics, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York. With General Electric: 1978, Financial Management Programme; 1981, Corporate Audit Staff ; ...
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Member, Group Executive Committee and Regional Chairman, Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa, Zurich Insurance Group, Hong Kong SAR
MA, Oxford Univ. Chartered Accountant. Started career with Price Waterhouse, UK. 1982, joined AIG; numerous roles incl. Country Manager, Hong ...
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Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, BioRegional Development Group, United Kingdom
Former: Nurse; Founder Director, BioRegional MiniMills. Since 2002, London Sustainable Development Commissioner. Co-Author, BioRegional Solutions. ...
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President, Mary Robinson Foundation-Climate Justice, Ireland
1990-97, President of Ireland; 1997-2002, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. Since 1998, Chancellor, Univ. of Dublin. Currently, President, ...
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Executive Director, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Sweden
Researcher on global sustainability and freshwater resources. Fifteen years' experience in applied research on water and agricultural development ...
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President, Rockefeller Foundation, USA
Graduate, Univ. of Pennsylvania; PhD in Psychology, Columbia. Former: President, Univ. of Pennsylvania; Provost, Yale. Since 2005, President, ...
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Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, shopkick, USA
Worked with global media, software and high-tech players while at McKinsey & Co. 1999, co-founded 12snap, a mobile marketing and entertainment ...
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Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Duke Energy Corporation, USA
Studies at Emory Univ.; BBA and JD, Univ. of Kentucky. Former: Assistant Attorney-General, Kentucky; Deputy General Counsel, Litigation & ...