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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Professor of Economics and Finance, China Europe International Business School (CEIBS), People's Republic of China
1981, MA in Industrial Economics, People's University of China; 1991, PhD in Economics, University of California, Davis. 1981-85, Division ...
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Dean, Institute of International Relations, Tsinghua University, People's Republic of China
1992, PhD in Political Science, University of California, Berkeley. Dean, Institute of Modern International Relations, Tsinghua University. Chief ...
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President of Ukraine
1980, graduate in Mechanical Engineering, Donetsk Polytechnic Institute; Master's in International Law, Ukrainian Academy of Foreign Trade; PhD in ...
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Visiting Scholar, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore
BA, Cambridge; MBA Harvard. Retired Brigadier-General, Singapore Armed Forces. 1988-2011, in government, including as Minister for Information and ...
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Managing Director, YTL Corporation, Malaysia
BSc (Hons) in Civil Engineering, UK. Managing Director of five listed entities. Former Member, Barclays Asia-Pacific Advisory Committee. Founder ...
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Vice-Chairman, IHS, USA
BA, Yale; PhD and Marshall Scholar, Cambridge. Formerly, Lecturer, Harvard Business School and Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. ...
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Deputy Governor, People's Bank of China, People's Republic of China
1978-80, Department of Economics, Peking Univ.; 1982-86, BA in Business Admin., Hamline Univ., St Paul, Minnesota and PhD in Economics, Univ. of ...
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Chief Executive Officer, Silatech, Qatar
PhD in Economics, Harvard. Formerly with: IMF, World Bank; UN; Georgetown Univ.; Dubai School of Gov. Since July 2011, CEO, Silatech. Non-Res. ...
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Chief, Presidential Experts' Directorate; G20 Sherpa; Office of the President of the Russian Federation
1992, BA in Economics, Moscow State University; 1994, MA in Economics, New Economics School, Moscow; 1998, PhD in Economics, MIT. Since 2000, with ...
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Special Representative of the Secretary-General, United Nations, Vienna
BSc in General Agriculture, Njala University College, Sierra Leone; MSc in Agricultural Economics, Cornell University; PhD in Agricultural ...
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Chairman, Yunus Centre, Bangladesh
Established Grameen Bank, Bangladesh; began in mid 70s with personal loans of small amounts of money to destitute basket weavers. Has worked to ...
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Director, Latin America, Three Squares, Uruguay
2004, Portuguese Language Studies, PUC, Rio de Janeiro; 2006, BSc in Diplomacy and International Relations, John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy, ...