WEF/Annual Meeting/1999
Davos, Switzerland
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| File:Gorschwab.jpg Al Gore, US Vice-President; Klaus Schwab | |
| Date | January 1999 |
| Location | Davos, Switzerland |
| Description | In the run-up to the Annual Meeting, which had as its theme "Responsible Globality", United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Klaus Schwab were in discussions about how to rally participants to support a global effort to support sustainability and responsible business practices". This was the genesis of the UN Global Compact, |
| Planners | WEF |
| Participants | Kofi Annan, Rahul Baja, Victor Chernomyrdin, Paulo Coelho, Howard Davies, Ruth Dreifuss, Alexander Erwin, Jane Fonda, Orit Gadiesh, Bill Gates, Nadine Gordimer, Al Gore, Roman Herzog, John Kerry, Václav Klaus, Thomas Klestil, Zlatko Lagumdzija, Graça Machel, Nelson Mandela, Yehudi Menuhin, Hosni Mubarak, Sadako Ogata, Romano Prodi, David Puttnam, Gerhard Schröder, Klaus Schwab, Frédéric Sicre, Martin Sorrell, Ted Turner, Atal Bihari Vajpayee,Ulrich Bettermann |
The 1999 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting was held in Davos, Switzerland in January 1999.[1]
Own words
In the run-up to the Annual Meeting, which had as its theme "Responsible Globality", United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Klaus Schwab were in discussions about how to rally participants to support a global effort to highlight the social responsibility of business. This was the genesis of the UN Global Compact, "a leadership initiative endorsed by chief executives" that serves as "a policy platform and a practical framework for companies that are committed to sustainability and responsible business practices".[2]
South African President Nelson Mandela returned to Davos to bid farewell before leaving office.