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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President and Chief Executive Officer, Internet Society (ISOC), Switzerland
Graduate, University of Vermont. Extensive experience in global IT sector, international business and corporate restructuring, with background in ...
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Chair, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, United Kingdom
BA in Mathematics, Cambridge Univ.; Doctorate in Economics, Oxford Univ. 1986-93, with LSE; 1994-99, Chief Economist and Special Counsellor to ...
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Professor, Columbia University, USA
1964, BA, Amherst College; 1967, PhD, MIT. Formerly with: Yale, Princeton, Stanford, MIT; Oxford; World Bank. Co-Founder and Co-Pres., Initiative ...
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President, Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
1972, completed studies in Natural Sciences, University of Cambridge; 1974, MSc in Reproductive Physiology, University of Wisconsin. 1974-78, ...
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Chief Scientific Officer and Worldwide Chairman, Pharmaceuticals, Johnson & Johnson, USA
Studies in Medicine, Univ. of Diepenbeek and Univ. of Antwerp, Belgium, and Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Institute of Tropical ...
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Chairman and Managing Director, Agility, Kuwait
BA in Economics, Williams College; MBA in Finance, University of Pennsylvania. Former: Managing Director, New York Associates, a Middle Eastern ...
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Charles W. Eliot University Professor, Harvard University, USA
1975, BSc, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; 1982, PhD, Harvard. 1983, Tenured Faculty, Harvard University. During the past two decades, has ...
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Chief Executive Officer, Southern African Confederation of Agricultural Unions (SACAU), South Africa
BSc in Economics, University of Zimbabwe; Master's in Strategic Management, University of Derby, UK. Extensive experience in rural and ...
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President, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Director, National Science Foundation. Member, National Science and Technology Council (NSTC), a cabinet-level council comprising federal agency ...
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Director-General, International Organization for Migration (IOM), Geneva
BA, Catawba College, North Carolina, US; Bachelor's in Divinity, Yale University; postgraduate studies, Harvard and Tubingen University, Germany. ...
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Director, Global Security Research Institute, Keio University, Japan
BA in Economics, Hitotsubashi Univ.; PhD in Economics, Osaka Univ. 1973, with Japan Development Bank; 1981, Visiting Scholar, Harvard and Univ. of ...
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President, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Degree in Medicine and PhD, Nat'l Univ. of Singapore (NUS). Renal Physician. 1997-2000, Dean, Faculty of Medicine, NUS; 2000-04, Director, Medical ...