WEF/Annual Meeting/2009

Davos, Switzerland

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Date	23 January 2009 - 27 January 2009
Location	Davos, Switzerland
Description	Chairman Klaus Schwab outlined five objectives driving the Forum’s efforts to shape the global agenda, including letting the banks that caused the 2008 economic crisis keep writing the rules, the climate change agenda, over-national government structures, taking control over businesses with the stakeholder agenda, and a "new charter for the global economic order".
Planners	WEF
Participants	Lulzim Basha, Sali Berisha, Mauricio Macri, Edward Nalbandian, Serzh A. Sargsyan, David V. Murray, Ulrich Bettermann, Kevin Rudd, Wayne Swan, Ilham Aliyev, H.E. Sheikh Ahmed Mohammed Al Khalifa, Herman A. van Rompuy, Karel De Gucht, Celso Amorim, Henrique de Campos Meirelles, Sérgio de Oliveira Cabral, James M. Flaherty, Jean Charest, Mark J. Carney, Stockwell B. Day Jr, Andrés Velasco, Alvaro Uribe Velez, Jaime Bermúdez, Luis Guillermo Plata, Marco Vinicio Ruiz Gutierrez, Václav Klaus, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Connie Hedegaard, Amre Moussa, Gamal H. Mubarak, Rachid M. Rachid, Tarek Kamel, Youssef Boutros-Ghali, Andris Piebalgs, Baroness Ashton of Upholland, Benita Ferrero-Waldner, Charlie McCreevy, Günter Verheugen, Jacques Barrot, Jean-Claude Trichet, Joaquín Almunia, José Manuel Barroso, Neelie Kroes, Thomas Mirow, Viviane Reding, Tarja Halonen, Bernard Kouchner, Christian Noyer, Christine Lagarde, Hervé Morin, Luc Chatel, Angela Merkel, Axel A. Weber, Guido Westerwelle, Michael Glos, Bharrat Jagdeo, Kamal Nath, Kapil Sibal, Montek S. Ahluwalia, Praful Patel, Mari Pangestu, Miranda S. Goeltom, Abdalla Salem El Badri, Achim Steiner, Angel Gurría, Ann M. Veneman, Antonio Guterres, Ban Ki-moon, Donald Kaberuka, Haruhiko Kuroda, Jacques Diouf, Jacques Rogozinski, Jakob Kellenberger, John Lipsky, José Miguel Insulza, Josette Sheeran, Koichiro Matsuura, Lars H. Thunell, Luis A. Moreno, Margaret Chan, Michel Kazatchkine, Mohamed M. ElBaradei, Nobuo Tanaka, Pascal Lamy, Robert B. Zoellick, Ronald K. Noble, Sir John Holmes, Supachai Panitchpakdi, Surin Pitsuwan, Yvo De Boer, Barham Salih, Brian Cowen, Manouchehr Mottaki, Mohamed Bagher Ghalibaf, Seyed Mojtaba Samare, Hashemi Shajareh, Benjamin Netanyahu, Shimon Peres, Stanley Fischer, Giulio Tremonti, Letizia Moratti, Mario Draghi, Motohisa Furukawa, Sadako Ogata, Shoichi Nakagawa, Taro Aso, Tetsuo Saito, Toshihiro Nikai, Yoriko Kawaguchi, Marat Tazhin, Nursultan A. Nazarbayev, Sauat Mynbayev, Vladimir Shkolnik, Yerbol Orynbayev, Raila Amolo Odinga, Bader M. Al Sa'ad, Sheikh Nasser Mohammed Al Ahmad Al Sabah, Valdis Zatlers, Valdas Adamkus, Agustin Carstens, Felipe Calderón, Georgina Kessel, Luis Téllez Kuenzler, Patricia Espinosa, Nambaryn Enkhbayar, Sukhbaatar Batbold, Abbas El Fassi, Ahmed Reda Chami, André Azoulay, Aziz Akhannouch, Mohamed Boussaid, Mohamed Hassad, Nizar Baraka, Salaheddine Mezouar, Luisa Dias Diogo, Jan Peter Balkenende, Chukwuma C. Soludo, Shamsuddeen Usman, Erik Solheim, Prince Haakon of Norway, Martin Skancke, Hina Rabbani Khar, Syed Yof Raza Gillani, Chen Deming, Wen Jiabao, Xia Deren, Xie Fuzhan, Yang Jiechi, Zhang Ping, Zhang Xiaoqiang, Arthur C. Yap, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Donald Tusk, Jacek Rostowski, Radoslaw Tomasz Sikorski, Slawomir Skrzypek, H.E. Sheikh Hamad Bin Jassim Bin Jabr Al Thani, Chin Young-Wook, Han Seung-Soo, Kim Jong-Hoon, Bozidar Djelic, Elvira Nabiullina, Igor Shuvalov, Rustam N. Minnikhanov, Paul Kagame, Abdul Rahman A. Al Tuwaijri, Abdullah Ahmed Zainal Alireza M, Amr A. Al Dabbagh, H.E. Sheikh Hamad Al Sayari, H.R.H. Hussam Bin Saud Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Ibrahim Abdul Aziz Al Assaf, Muhammad S. Al Jasser, Abdoulaye Wade, Tony Tan Keng-Yam, Yaacob Ibrahim, Buyelwa Patience Sonjica, Kgalema Motlanthe, Mandisi Mpahlwa, Marthinus van Schalkwyk, Tito Mboweni, Trevor Manuel, Anders Borg, Carl Bildt, Fredrik Reinfeldt, Doris Leuthard, Hans-Rudolf Merz, Jean-Pierre Roth, Kofi Annan, Michael Ambühl, Micheline Calmy-Rey, Moritz Leuenberger, Abhisit Vejjajiva, Kasit Piromya, Korbsak Sabhavasu, Ali Babacan, Durmus Yilmaz, Mehmet Hilmi Güler, Mehmet Simsek, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Viktor A. Yushchenko, H.E. Sheikha Lubna Al Qasimi, H.H. Sheikh Hamed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Khaldoon Al Mubarak, Mohamed Bin Dhaen Al Hamli, Mohammad Abdullah Al Gergawi, Reem Al Hashimy, Alistair Darling, Boris Johnson, David Cameron, David Miliband, Douglas Alexander, Ed Miliband, George Osborne, Gordon Brown, H.R.H. The Duke of York, Hilary Benn, Jonathan Stephen Cunliffe, Lord Mandelson, Lord Turner, Sir John Gieve, Tony Blair, Al Gore, Barney Frank, Brian Baird, Carolyn B. Maloney, Christopher J. Dodd, David A. Paterson, Evan Bayh, Gavin Newsom, Howard B. Dean III, James L. Jones Jr, John F. Kerry, Lawrence H. Summers, Lindsey O. Graham, Marshall C. Sanford Jr, Max Baucus, Nita M. Lowey, Patrick J. Leahy, Sheila C. Bair, William J. Clinton, Nguyen Thien Nhan, Morgan Tsvangirai, Paul Achleitner, Josef Ackermann, Marcus Agius, Jacques Aigrain, Mohamed Alabbar, Vagit U. Alekperov, Mukesh D. Ambani, Maurice A. Amon, José Pablo Arellano Marin, David Arkless, Louis Bacon, Peter Bakker, Shumeet Banerji, Craig R. Barrett, Laurent Beaudoin, Marc R. Benioff, Roland Berger, Ana P. Botin, Daniel Bouton, Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, Samir Brikho, Martin F. Broughton, Paul Bulcke, Hubert Burda, Hans-Paul Birkner, Marilyn Carlson Nelson, Cynthia Carroll, John T. Chambers, Chey Tae-Won, David Childs, Anatoly B. Chubais, George F. Colony, Cristóbal Conde, Eckhard Cordes, The Rt Hon. Lord Davies, lan E. Davis, Michael S. Dell, Oleg V. Deripaska, James Dimon, Samuel A. DiPiazza Jr, John Doerr, Mathias Döpfner, Brady W. Dougan, Richard W. Edelman, Klaus Engel, Richard B. Evans, Jay S. Fishman, Niall FitzGerald, Timothy P. Flynn, Steve Forbes, Mark Foster, Christoph Franz, Jacob A. Frenkel, Mark B. Fuller, Orit Gadiesh, Pierre Gadonneix, Bill Gates, Carlos Ghosn, Thomas H. Glocer, Donald Gogel, Francisco Gonzalez, Jim Goodnight, Kris Gopalakrishnan, Noam Gottesman, Hugh Grant, Peter T. Grauer, Andy Green, Stephen Green, Robert Greifeld, Ajit Gulabchand, Stelios Haji-loannou, Martin C. Hal, George C. Halvorson, Jirgen Hambrecht, Hassan Marican, Richard, Haythornthwaite, Tony Hayward, Hubertus Heemskerk, William V. Hickey, Charles O. Holliday Jr, Stefan von Holtzbrinck, Alexander V. Izosimov, Paul E. Jacobs, H. Fisk Johnson, Lars G. Josefsson, Vyomesh Joshi, K. V. Kamath, Kevin Kelly, Muhtar A. Kent, H.E. Sheikh Mohammed Al Khalifa, Walter B. Kielholz, Nemir A. Kirdar, Yoshimitsu, Kobayashi, Andrei L. Kostin, Henry R. Kravis, André Kudelski, Andrey R. Kuzyaev, Paul A. Laudicina, Lord Levene, Maurice Lévy, Andrew N. Liveris, Didier Lombard, Peter Léscher, Edward J. Ludwig, Herbert, Litkestratkdtter, Howard W. Lutnick, Graham Mackay, Mohammed H. Al, Mady, Gérard Mestrallet, Lakshmi N. Mittal, Lalit K. Modi, Gulzhan, Moldazhanova, Andrew Moss, Rupert Murdoch, Jonathan M. Nelson, Nandan M. Nilekani, Indra Nooyi, Daniel S. Och, Lubna S. Olayan, Jorma Ollila, Dag J. Opedal, Larry Page, Stephen G. Pagliuca, Mark G. Parker, Corrado Passera, Rafael del Pino, Robert Polet, Azim H. Premji, Thomas J. Pritzker, Alessandro, Profumo, James H. Quigley, Paul C. Reilly, William R. Rhodes, Joseph L. Rice III, James E. Rogers, Marcel Rohner, Michael I. Roth, David M. Rubenstein, Peter Sands, James J. Schiro, Joseph P. Schoendorf, Stephen A. Schwarzman, Burkhard Schwenker, Douglas W. Shorenstein, Paul Skinner, Bradford L. Smith, George Soros, Sir Martin Sorrell, Michael R. Splinter, Rupert Stadler, David J. Stern, Peter Sutherland, Henri A. Termeer, Rex Tillerson, Michael Tram, Solomon D. Trujillo, Joseph M. Tucci, Mark Tucker, James S. Turley, Junichi Ujiie, Daniel Vasella, Jeroen van der, Veer, Marcus Wallenberg, Bruce Wasserstein, Alberto Weisser, Werner Wenning, Patricia A. Woertz, John D. Wren, Hiromasa Yonekura, Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala II

The WEF's 2009 Annual Meeting was held in Davos, as usual. Only the "public figures" and some of the "business leaders" participating are known.

Own words

In his opening remarks, Chairman Klaus Schwab outlined five objectives driving the Forum’s efforts to shape the global agenda, at the time of the 2008 economic crisis.

It included letting the banks that caused the crisis keep writing the rules, the climate change agenda, over-national government structures, taking control over businesses with the stakeholder agenda, and to "restore confidence".

Firstly, agreeing on a process of public-private consultations during 2009 on the reform of the international financial architecture involving World Economic Forum Financial Services Industry Partners, academic experts, and G20 finance ministries and central banks.

Secondly, the international community focused attention on climate change and the urgent need for governments to agree on a successor to the Kyoto Protocol by the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December 2009.

Third, to start a year-long process to develop recommendations on how the structures and strategies of international cooperation should be updated to confront contemporary global challenges more effectively.

Fourth, to improve the ethical value base for business as a constructive social actor. Launching a year-long initiative led by the Young Global Leaders (YGL) community to develop a model code of ethics and conduct for business and other leaders through consultations with all stakeholders, including experts on business management and ethics.

Fifth, to restore confidence globally. German Chancellor Angela Merkel called for the creation of an international economic body similar to the UN’s Security Council to prevent future financial crises as well as a "new charter for the global economic order" that would enshrine core economic principles.