Adrian Monck, Managing Director, Head of Public Engagement: +41 (0)79 615 1671; adrian.monck@weforum.org
Geneva, Switzerland, 3 November 2014 – The Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum has elected Peter Maurer, President, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), as a new member.
Professor Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, stressed the importance of having the heads of international organizations on the Foundation Board. He said: “With his nomination, the board wishes to strengthen the humanitarian dimension of the Foundation and looks forward to fully integrate Peter Maurer’s valuable experience into its activities. The work of the ICRC is another example of the strong impact that can be made with multistakeholder collaboration, and we welcome the new voice and perspective that Maurer will bring.”
The Foundation Board is the guardian of the Forum’s mission and values through an exemplary standard of governance. The multistakeholder nature of the Foundation will be further enhanced, counting among the 25 members representatives from international organizations, civil societies, academia and business.
“Although the ICRC and the World Economic Forum have separate missions, they both are centred on collaboration across sectors and between various actors in order to improve the state of the world. As ICRC president, I hope to share with the board our experience in assisting and protecting vulnerable populations worldwide and to strengthen their resilience,” Maurer said.
As of 3 November, the members of the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum are:
| Klaus SCHWAB* | Chairman of the Foundation Board |
| Peter BRABECK-LETMATHE* | Vice-Chairman of the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum, Chairman of the Board, Nestlé, Switzerland |
| Patrick AEBISCHER | President, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne, Switzerland |
| H.M. Queen Rania AL ABDULLAH | of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan |
| Mukesh AMBANI | Chairman and Managing Director, Reliance Industries, India |
| Mark CARNEY | Chairman, Financial Stability Board; Governor of the Bank of England |
| Victor CHU* | Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, First Eastern Investment Group, Hong Kong SAR |
| Orit GADIESH** | Chairman, Bain & Company, USA |
| Carlos GHOSN** | Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Renault-Nissan Alliance (France and Japan), France |
| Herman GREF | Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Sberbank, Russia |
| Angel GURRÍA | Secretary-General, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Paris |
| Susan HOCKFIELD | President Emerita and Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA |
| Donald KABERUKA | President, African Development Bank, Tunis |
| Klaus KLEINFELD* | Chairman and Chief Executive, Alcoa Inc., USA |
| Christine LAGARDE | Managing Director, International Monetary Fund, Washington DC |
| Jack MA | Executive Chairman, Alibaba Group, People’s Republic of China |
| Peter MAURER | President, International Committee of the Red Cross, Switzerland |
| Luis MORENO | President, Inter-American Development Bank, Washington DC |
| Indra NOOYI* | Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, PepsiCo, USA |
| Peter SANDS** | Group Chief Executive, Standard Chartered, United Kingdom |
| Joseph SCHOENDORF* | Venture Partner, Accel Partners, USA |
| Jim Hagemann SNABE | Member of the Board, SAP AG, Siemens AG, Allianz SE, Germany |
| Heizo TAKENAKA** | Director, Global Security Research Institute, Keio University, Japan; Minister of State for Economic and Fiscal Policy of Japan (2002-2006) |
| George YEO YONG-BOON | Visiting Scholar, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy; Minister of Foreign Affairs of Singapore (2004 – 2011) |
| Min ZHU | Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund, Washington DC |
*Member of the Executive Committee
**Member of the Audit Committee
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