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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Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Economics, Harvard University, USA
1975, BA (Hons), Yale University; 1980, PhD in Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Formerly: Economist at the Board of Governors, ...
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President and Chief Executive Officer, Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE), USA
BA in Political Science, Claremont Colleges. Former Member of the Board, New Jersey Transit and Amtrak. Since 2000, focus shifted to reform of US ...
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Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Mondelez International, USA
BA, Psychology, MSc, Business Admin. and PhD in Marketing and Statistics, Cornell. Since 1981, with Kraft Foods, the predecessor to Mondelez ...
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Vice-Chancellor and Federal Minister of Economics and Technology of Germany
Trained as a Medical Specialist and as a Medical Officer, Bundeswehr. Several years as Parliamentary Group Chairman and Minister of Economics, ...
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Executive Director, Human Rights Watch, USA
Graduate, Yale Law School and Brown University. Former: Prosecutor; Associate Counsel to Independent Counsel for Iran-Contra investigation; ...
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Co-Founder and Partner, LeapFrog Investments, United Kingdom
PhD in Financial Services for Low-Income Clients, Cambridge University. Leading expert in the global mass-market insurance sector and a pioneer of ...
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Co-Founder and Executive Director, Ushahidi, Kenya
Degree in Computer Science, University of Missouri, Kansas City. Has worked in the telecommunications and data warehousing industry for over 10 ...
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Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Endeavor, USA
BA (Hons), Harvard; JD, Yale. Member: Young Presidents' Organization; Entrepreneurship Steering Committee, World Economic Forum. Social ...
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Professor of Economics and International Business, Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University, USA
Undergraduate degree, Bocconi Univ.; PhD in Economics, Harvard. 1998-2000, Senior Economist for International Affairs, White House Council of ...
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Co-Founder and Co-Chief Executive Officer, Carlyle Group, USA
1970, graduate (Hons), Duke Univ.; 1973, graduate, University of Chicago Law School; 1973-75, with Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison; ...
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Senior Adviser, US House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs, USA
BA in Economics and Development Studies, and MBA, University of California, Berkeley. Former: Senior Aide, US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, ...