WEF/Annual Meeting/1997
Davos, Switzerland
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| Date | January 1997 |
| Location | Davos, Switzerland |
| Description | Harvard University political scientist Samuel P. Huntington, who died in 2008, is credited with coining the term "Davos Man" to refer to what he regarded as a global elite, a minority, who "have little need for national loyalty, view national boundaries as obstacles that thankfully are vanishing, and see national governments as residues from the past whose only useful function is to facilitate the elite’s global operations." |
| Planners | WEF |
| Participants | Klaus Schwab,Nelson Mandela,Wole Soyinka, Yehudi Menuhin, Shashi Tharoor, Tao Ho,Thomas Klestil, Robert Mugabe,Amjad Ali Khan,Fred Bergsten, Peter Sutherland, Lawrence Summers,Nabil Sha’ath, Yasser Arafat, Benjamin Netanyahu,Ferdinand Piëch,Prince Albert II of Monaco,Jean-Luc Dehaene, Jean-Claude Trichet ,Theodor Waigel,Bill Gates, Mike Dertouzos,Ulrich Bettermann |
The 1997 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting was held in Davos, Switzerland in January 1997.[1]
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The Foundation launched the "Partnership Concept" for its various activities. This would enable the Forum to forge deeper relationships with certain member companies that could provide specialized knowledge and critical expertise.
Harvard University political scientist Samuel P. Huntington, who died in 2008, is credited with coining the term "Davos Man" to refer to what he regarded as a global elite, a minority, who "have little need for national loyalty, view national boundaries as obstacles that thankfully are vanishing, and see national governments as residues from the past whose only useful function is to facilitate the elite’s global operations."[2]