From Chinese President Xi Jinping to Shakira, here are some of the best photos from the first day of Davos 2017.
Xi Jinping, President of the People's Republic of China, delivers a speech to Davos participantsImage: World Economic Forum/Valeriano Di Domenico
Naomi Oreskes, Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University, speaks during the session, Climate Crisis: The Big PictureImage: World Economic Forum/Sikarin Thanachaiary
The exterior of the Congress Centre in DavosImage: World Economic Forum/Ciaran McCrickard
An exterior shot near the Congress Centre in DavosImage: World Economic Forum/Ciaran McCrickard
Shakira, UNICEF Global Ambassador, speaks during a session in Davos Image: World Economic Forum/Jakob Polacsek
Shereen Bhan, Managing Editor, CNBC-TV18, Matt Damon, Co-Founder, Water.org, and Gary White, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Water.org, speak in a sessionImage: World Economic Forum/Jakob Polacsek
A guide dog rests during a session at the Forum's Annual Meeting in DavosImage: World Economic Forum/Ciaran McCrickard
Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, introduces John F. Kerry, US Secretary of StateImage: World Economic Forum/Greg Beadle
Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz speaks during the session, Ending CorruptionImage: World Economic Forum/Boris Baldinger
Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, Coordinator, Association for Indigenous Women and Peoples of Chad (AFPAT), takes part in a sessionImage: World Economic Forum/Jakob Polacsek
A participant tries out VR in the Congress CentreImage: World Economic Forum/Valeriano Di Domenico
A participant sits underneath John Grade’s artwork, Middle Fork, in the Congress Centre in DavosImage: World Economic Forum/Mattias Nutt