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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Chairperson and Co-Founder, Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, Switzerland
Joined husband Klaus Schwab when he created the World Economic Forum; 1971, organized its first Annual Meeting; Adviser and Project Manager for ...
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Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, The Blackstone Group, USA
BA, Yale; MBA, Harvard. Former Adjunct Professor, Yale School of Management. 1972, joined Lehman Brothers: 1978, Managing Director; 1983-84, ...
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Minister of State (IC) for Power of India
1993, BA in Economics, Harvard University; 2001, MBA, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University. Since 2002, Member of Parliament, Lok ...
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Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Fluor Corporation, USA
Degree, Univ. of South Carolina; Advanced Mgmt Programme, Wharton School of Business; Int'l Mgmt Programme, Thunderbird Univ. Since 1984, with ...
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Founder and Chief Executive Officer, LRN, USA
Advanced degrees in Philosophy, UCLA and University of Oxford; graduate, Harvard Law School. Since 1994, as Founder and Chief Executive Officer, ...
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President, Keio University, Japan
1993, PhD, Labour Economics, Keio Univ. Former: Visiting Scholar, UCLA; Consultant, RAND Corp.; Visiting Principal Research Officer, Economic ...
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Secretary-General, International Maritime Organization (IMO), London
Studied naval architecture and Master's in Engineering, Osaka University. Former ship inspector, Ministry of Transport of Japan; 1989, joined the ...
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Group Chief Executive Officer, Zurich Insurance Group, Switzerland; Co-Chair of the Governors for Financial Services Industry for 2013
1976-94, with the former Swiss Bank Corporation, Hong Kong, Singapore and Tokyo; 1994, joined Credit Suisse; 2003-06, Member of the Corporate ...
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Director, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt
BSc, Egypt; Master's and PhD, Harvard. Currently, Director, Library of Alexandria. Also chairs its affiliated research institutes and museums. Has ...
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Founding and Managing Partner, Algebris Investments (UK), United Kingdom
Graduate (Hons), Bocconi University, Italy; Master's in CEMS, HEC, France, UCLN, Belgium and Norway. 1995-2000, with UBS, including as Senior ...
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Writer, Turkey
Author and most widely read woman writer in Turkey. Writes in both English and Turkish, and has published 12 books, eight of which are novels, ...
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Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, PAG, Hong Kong SAR
MA and PhD, University of California, Berkeley; MBA, University of San Francisco. Former positions include: Investment Officer, World Bank, ...