- The 2025 Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum took place from 20-24 January in Davos, Switzerland.
- Davos 2025 convened under the theme of “Collaboration for the Intelligent Age.”
- Close to 3,000 participants from over 130 countries took part in the gathering.
Thousands of decision-makers from around the world gathered in Davos, Switzerland, for the 54th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum.
The week-long event was convened under the theme of “Collaboration for the Intelligent Age.” Discussions focused around five key themes that are critical to tackling the various issues facing the global economy: reimagining growth, industries in the intelligent age, investing in people, safeguarding the planet and rebuilding trust.
Participants included over 1,600 business leaders, including over 900 of the world’s top CEOs, as well as more than 350 governmental leaders, which included over 50 heads of state and government.
For a look inside Davos 2025, see the following selection of top pictures:
Davos is the highest town in Europe. Image: World Economic Forum Crystal Award winners David Beckham, Diane von Furstenberg and Riken Yamamoto with Hilde and Klaus Schwab. Image: World Economic Forum The opening concert of the Annual Meeting. Image: World Economic Forum Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, delivers a special address at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2025 in Davos, Switzerland. Image: World Economic Forum Bandar Bin Mohammed Bin Saoud Al-Thani, Governor of the Qatar Central Bank; Bill Winters, Group Chief Executive, Standard Chartered Bank, United Kingdom in a session at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2025. Image: World Economic Forum Image: World Economic Forum Ding Xuexiang, Vice-Premier of the People's Republic of China, delivers a special address. Image: World Economic Forum Peter Lee, President of Microsoft Research, speaks during a session turbocharging precision medicine. Image: World Economic Forum Borge Brende, President and CEO, World Economic Forum; David M. Rubenstein, Co-Founder and Co-Chairman, Carlyle, USA; Khaldoon Khalifa Al Mubarak, Group CEO, Mubadala Investment Company, UAE; Marcus Wallenberg, Chairman, Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken (SEB), Sweden; and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director-General, World Trade Organization, speaking on session on growth. Image: World Economic Forum A participant in the Global Collaboration Village. Image: World Economic Forum Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa, President of South Africa, speaks during a special address. Image: World Economic Forum Cristina Mittermeier, Co-Founder of SeaLegacy, speaks during a session on protecting the ocean. Image: World Economic Forum Klaus Schwab, Founder and Chairman of the Board of Trustees, World Economic Forum, and Olaf Scholz, Federal Chancellor of Germany. Image: World Economic Forum Alexander De Croo, Prime Minister of Belgium; Christopher G. Cavoli, Supreme Allied Commander Europe; Gideon Rachman, Associate Editor and Chief Foreign Affairs Commentator, Financial Times; Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, Leader of the Democratic Forces of Belarus; and Ulf Kristersson, Prime Minister of Sweden, speaking on a panel. Image: World Economic Forum World Economic Forum President and CEO Børge Brende and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Image: World Economic Forum David Gelles, Managing Correspondent, New York Times; Eivind Kallevik, President and CEO, Hydro; Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director-General, World Trade Organization; and Zhang Lei, CEO, Envision, speaking on a panel on trade and the climate crisis. Image: World Economic Forum Anwar Ibrahim, Prime Minister of Malaysia, and Klaus Schwab, Founder and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the World Economic Forum, speak in a session. Image: World Economic Forum Andrew Ng, Founder, DeepLearning.AI; Jonathan Ross, Founder and CEO, Groq; Nicholas Thompson, CEO, Atlantic; Thomas Wolf, Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer, Hugging Face; Yejin Choi, Professor and Senior Fellow, Stanford University; and Yoshua Bengio, Full Professor, University of Montreal, speaking during a session on artificial general intelligence. Image: World Economic Forum Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez delivers a special address. Image: World Economic Forum Artist Sougwen Chung at her exhibition on display. Image: World Economic Forum CNN host Fareed Zakaria and Javad Zarif, Vice-President for Strategic Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran, during a session. Image: World Economic Forum Paetongtarn Shinawatra, Prime Minister of Thailand, speaks at a reception. Image: World Economic Forum/Chris Heeney Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director-General of the World Trade Organization, and Valdis Dombrovskis, European Commissioner for Economy and Productivity, Implementation and Simplification, speaking in a session. Image: World Economic Forum Image: World Economic Forum Javier Milei, President of Argentina, speaks during a special address. Image: World Economic Forum/Gabrie US President Donald Trump delivers a special address and participates in dialogue with global chief executives. Image: REUTERS Image: World Economic Forum 
