WEF/Annual Meeting/2000

Davos, Switzerland

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File:Madeleine K. Albright.jpg Madeleine Albright, US Secretary of State, arriving at Davos
Date	January 2000
Location	Davos, Switzerland
Description	At the Annual Meeting 2000, the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) was born.
Planners	WEF
Participants	Martti Ahtisaari, Madeleine Albright, Yasser Arafat, José María Aznar, Tony Blair, Stephen Case, Bill Clinton, Paulo Coelho, Pascal Couchepin, Michael Dell, Bülent Ecevit, Umberto Eco, Bill Gates, Vartan Gregorian, Quincy Jones, William B. Jordan, Anthony Kennedy, Martin Khor, Craig Kielburger, Sergei Kirienko, Maritta R. von Bieberstein Koch-Weser, Dan Lashof, Rick R. Little, Daniel Lubetzky, Ed Mayo, Thabo Mbeki, John Monks, Nursultan Nazerbajev, Aryeh Neier, Molly Harriss Olson, James Orbinski, Shimon Peres, Iqbal Z. Quadir, Johannes Rau, Johannes Rau, Karl-Henrik Robert, Kenneth Roth, Samuel Rouvillois, Xóchitl Galvez Ruiz, Pierre Sané, Eric Schmidt, Klaus Schwab, Eduard Shevarnadze, Vandana Shiva, Timothy P. Shriver, George Soros, Björn Stigson, Patricia Q. Stonesifer, John J. Sweeney, Heizo Takenaka, Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, Peter Ustinov,Sasa D. Vucinic, Abdurrahman Wahid, Benjamin Zander, Min Zhu

The 2000World Economic Forum Annual Meeting was held in Davos, Switzerland in January 2000.

Participants

Only a few are known.

Own words

For the first time, a sitting American president, Bill Clinton, came to Davos. Speaking from the Congress Hall stage, Clinton observed that so many world leaders were in the room, calling it "an indication of the importance of the World Economic Forum."

At the Annual Meeting 2000, the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) was born. Among the early supporters of GAVI was Microsoft founder Bill Gates, who has been a regular Davos participant since 1996.

Also at Davos was British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who spoke about a new brand of politics: “I call it a Third Way."