WEF/Annual Meeting/2008
Davos, Switzerland
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| Date | 23 January 2008 - 27 January 2008 |
| Location | Davos, Switzerland |
| Website | https://www.weforum.org/reports/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2008/ |
| Description | At the 2008 summit, Klaus Schwab called for a coordinated approach, where different 'stakeholders' collaborate across geographical, industrial, political and cultural boundaries." |
| Planners | WEF |
| Participants | Valdas Adamkus, Anwar ul-Haq Ahadi,Fakhruddin Ahmed,Shamshad Akhtar,Syed Hamid bin Syed Jaafar Albar,Douglas Alexander,Abdullah Zainal Alireza,Ilham Aliyev,Joaquín Almunia,Akira Amari,Michael Ambühl,Celso Amorim,Kirill Androsov,Kofi Annan,Ibrahim Abdul Aziz Al Assaf,Abdulla Bin Hamad Al Attiyah,Bassem I. Awadallah,Shaukat Aziz,Ali Babacan,Abdullah Ahmad Badawi,Mohammad Reza Bahonar,Brian Baird,Jan Peter Balkenende,Ehud Barak,Jose Manuel Barroso,Jacques Barrot,Salaheddin M. Al Bashir,H.R.H. Princess Mathilde of Belgium,H.R.H. Prince Philippe of Belgium,Hilary Benn,Robert F. Bennett,Sali Berisha,Ulrich Bettermann, Joseph R. Biden,Carl Bildt,Tony Blair,Samuel W. Bodman,Yvo De Boer,Lee Boon-Yang,Youssuf Boutros-Ghali,Gordon Brown,Jehad Bukamal,Micheline Calmy-Rey,David Cameron,Mark J. Carney,Agustin Carstens,Margaret Chan,Jean Charest,Michael Chertoff,Palaniappan Chidambaram,Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury,Jean-François Copé,Jon Corzine,Pascal Couchepin,Christopher Cox,Simon Crean,Jonathan Stephen Cunliffe,Amr A. Al Dabbagh,Howard B. Dean III,Mauro Dell`Ambrogio,Xia Deren,Kemal Dervis,Vilasrao Deshmukh,Jacques Diouf,Mario Draghi,David L. Emerson,Recep Tayyip Erdogan,Saeb Erekat,Peter B. Favila,Salam Fayyad,François Fillon,James M. Flaherty,Henrietta H. Fore,Barney Frank,Timothy F. Geithner,Jean-Daniel Gerber,Julie Louise Gerberding,Mohammad Al Gergawi,Mohamed Baker Ghalibaf,Enrique Peña Nieto Go,Al Gore,María del Rosario Guerra,Angel Gurría,Alfred Gusenbauer,Antonio Guterres,Mehmet Hilmi Güler,Ferenc Gyurcsany,Hoang Trung Hai,Kristin Halvorsen,Mohamed Bin Dhaen Al Hamli,John Holmes (OCHA),Lee Hsien-Loong,Kay Bailey Hutchison,John Hutton,Shintaro Ishihara,Jamaluddin Bin Dato Mohd Jarjis,Muhammad S. Al Jasser,Ning Jizhe,Lord Digby Jones,Kim Jong-Hoon,H.M. Queen Rania Al Abdullah of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan,Donald Kaberuka,Tarek Kamel,Ichiro Kamoshita,Hamid Karzai,Gilberto Kassab,Volker Kauder,Yoriko Kawaguchi,Michel Kazatchkine,Tony Tan Keng-Yam,John F. Kerry,H.H. Sheikh Salman Bin Hamad Al Khalifa,H.E. Sheikh Ahmed bin Mohammed Al Khalifa,Ahsanullah Khan,Mohammad Khatami,Robert M. Kimmitt,Ban Ki-moon,Henry A. Kissinger,Malcolm Knight,Masaharu Kohno,Bernard Kouchner,Neelie Kroes,Aleksey Kudrin,Haruhiko Kuroda,Markos Kyprianou,Christine Lagarde,Pascal Lamy,Patrick J. Leahy,Jean Lemierre,Moritz Leuenberger,Doris Leuthard,Ken Livingstone,Tzipi Livni,Mohammad Al Aleem M,Gloria Macapagal,Deborah Platt Majoras,Peter Mandelson,Trevor Manuel,Rasheed Al Maraj,Edward J. Markey,Kevin J. Martin,Hiroya Masuda,Koichiro Matsuura,Tito Mboweni,David H. McCormick,Charlie McCreevy,Henrique de Campos Meirelles,Hans-Rudolf Merz,David Miliband,Letizia Moratti,Luis A. Moreno,Manouchehr Mottaki,Amre Moussa,Mandisi Mpahlwa,Gamal H. Mubarak,Pervez Musharraf,Elvira Nabiullina,H.H. Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan,Hidenao Nakagawa,Kamal Nath,Christian Noyer,Sadako Ogata,Volodymyr Ohryzko,Koji Omi,Guillermo Ortiz,George Osborne,Ichiro Ozawa,Mari Pangestu,Supachai Panitchpakdi,Kosit Panpiemras,José Natividad González Parás,Praful Patel,Zeng Peiyan,Shimon Peres,Bernd Pfaffenbach,Peter Piot,Surin Pitsuwan,Luis Guillermo Plata,Robert Portman,Hans-Gert Pöttering,Cham Prasidh,Daniel M. Price,H.E. Sheikha Lubna Al Qasimi,Rachid M. Rachid,Anders Fogh Rasmussen,Viviane Reding,Condoleezza Rice,Jacques Rogozinski,Alberto Romulo,Li Rongrong,Jean-Pierre Roth,David Rowland,Jonathan Rowland,Ibrahim Mbombo Njoya S,Il SaKong,Barham Salih,Stefano Sannino,H.R.H. Princess Lolowah Al Faisal Al Saud,H.R.H. Prince Saud Bin Abdullah Bin Mohammed Bin Thinyan Al Saud,Susan Schwab,Pehin Lim Jock Seng,Salman Shah,Hussain Al Shahristani,Seyed Mojtaba Samare Hashemi Shajareh,Josette Sheeran,Yasuhisa Shiozaki,Wang Shuzu,Mehmet Simsek,Cheng Siwei,Chukwuma C. Soludo,Juan Somavia,Rangin Dadfar Spanta,Achim Steiner,Dominique Strauss-Kahn,Nobuo Tanaka,Amando M. Tetangco,Margarito B. Teves,U Soe Tha,Hamad Bin Jassim Bin Jabr Al Thani,Lars H. Thunell,Hamadoun I. Touré,Jean-Claude Trichet,Abdul Rahman A. Al Tuwaijri,Pierre-François Unger,Shamsuddeen Usman,Andrés Velasco,Alvaro Uribe Velez,Ann M. Veneman,Günter Verheugen,Abdoulaye Wade,Masatoshi Wakabayashi,Yoshimi Watanabe,Axel A. Weber,N. Hassan Wirajuda,Zhang Xiaoqiang,Yi Xiaozhun,Umaru Musa Yar'Adua,Zhang Yesui,Durmus Yilmaz,Eli Yishai,George Yeo Yong-Boon,H.R.H. The Duke of York,Purnomo Yusgiantoro, Viktor A. Yushchenko, Robert Zoellick,Theodore McCarrick,Indra K. Nooyi,Mahdi Hadavi,David A. Harris,David J. O'Reilly,James Dimon,Linah Mohohlo,Bill Gates,Thabo Mbeki,Yasuo Fukuda |
The WEF 2008 Annual Summit was held in Davos, Switzerland January 23-28. Only the "public figures" participating are known.[1][2]. The themes stressed a coordinated approach between different "stakeholders" - the billionaires and corporations, and their NGOs and politicians.
Own words
Much of the work of the World Economic Forum is done away from the media spotlight. Throughout the year our Members and Partners work alongside governments, academics and public bodies on important programmes and initiatives that help tackle major global issues.[2]
At the 2008 summit, Klaus Schwab said "In today’s increasingly interconnected and complex world, no single leader, nation or organization has the solution to the crucial issues that face us all. Climate change, terrorism, or water scarcity, all require a coordinated approach, one in which different stakeholders collaborate across geographical, industrial, political and cultural boundaries."[2]
In 2008, the Forum "laid the foundations for two new major creative breakthroughs, WELCOM (World Economic Leaders Community) and the Global Agenda Councils (GACs). WELCOM is a powerful new online communication and collaboration space designed specifically for the world’s top decision-makers. It will be rolled out throughout next year, providing global leaders with an unprecedented opportunity of continuous, instantaneous interaction. ith the help of the world’s leading universities we established a network of Global Agenda Councils (GACs) which constitute now over 1,000 members, the world’s foremost integrated collective intelligence system."[2]