WEF/Young Global Leaders/2020
WEF/Young Global Leaders
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| Abbreviation | YGL/2020 |
| Membership | Niklas Adalberth, Lamya AlHaj, Faisal Alibrahim, Shauna Aminath, Ines Arrimadas, Bernardo Asuaje, Cherrie Atilano, Gabriel Attal, Muhammad Hammad Azhar, Annalena Baerbock, Johana Bahamon, Kate Brandt, Jason Camm, Jesús Cepeda, Krasna Cham, Pamela Chan, Tianshi Chen, Sarah Chen, Hyungu Dave Cho, Jack Conte, Komal Dadlani, Aslihan Denizkurdu, Ugyen Dorji, Joelle Faulkner, Qiaomei Fu, Matthew Caruana Galizia, Kate Gallego, Alicia Garza, Golriz Ghahraman, Karina Gould, Carlalberto Guglielminotti, Gaurav Gupta, Jin He, Rebecca M. Heller, Jukay Hsu, Mei Mei Hu, David Ikkersheim, Paula Ingabire, Delfina Irazusta, Ying Jiang, Kristo Kaarmann, Karen Karniol-Tambour, Manuella Kaster, Tunde Kehinde, Niki Kerameus, Fumiaki Kobayashi, Michael Kratsios, Eduardo Figueiredo Cavalheiro Leite, Veronika Linardi, Stephanie Lo, Elisha London, Grace Natalie Louisa, Jeffrey Lu, Mette Lykke, Larry Madowo, Caroline Malcolm, Gabriel Marcolongo, Sanna Marin, Leland Maschmeyer, Swapan Mehra, Maryam Monsef, Henry Motte-Muñoz, Barbara Maul Mulvee, Vinati Mutreja, Griffin R. Myers, Akshay Naheta, Akiko Naka, Emi Nakamura, Yetnebersh Nigussie, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, Faraja Nyalandu, Chinny Ogunro, Fredros Okumu, Pradip Pariyar, Mayur Patel, Rafael Paz, Fang Qu, Megan Rapinoe, Byju Raveendran, Atika Rehman, Viridiana Rios, James Rogers, Vivek Salgaocar, Kush Saxena, Kabir Sehgal, Shani Senbetta, Bhavin Shah, Sally Shin, Susana Sierra, Marga Gual Soler, Otto Sonnenholzner, Brandon Stanton, Ludovic Subran, Fainy Sukenik, Noor Sweid, Stacey Tank, Anahita Thoms, Gregg Treinish, Katsuya Uenoyama, Lauren Underwood, Tara Singh Vachani, Elisa Vegas, Veronica Ruiz del Vizo, Nicole Vogrin, Zhu Xiaoxuan, Weiwei Xing, Wan Nadiah Wan Mohd Abdullah Yaakob, Yasui Yoshiki, Raya Yusuf-Sbitany, Christian Zeinler, Thani Ahmed Al Zeyoudi, Nancie Zhu, Chew Shou Zi, Fabio Ziemssen, Aurelie Adam-Soule Zoumarou |
| WEF's Young Global Leaders for 2020 | |
This page lists most of the 114 YGLs that made up the class of 2020[1]. The WEF does not always publish all the candidates. The previous year's cadre is listed as WEF/Young Global Leaders 2019, the following as WEF/Young Global Leaders 2021.
Selected Examples
- Megan Rapinoe - As co-captain of the US women's soccer team, Rapinow lifted the 2019 FIFA World Cup. Off the field, she advocates for gender equality, including equal pay in her sport, and speaks out on diversity and inclusion.
- Jesús Cepeda - Chief Executive Officer of OneSmart City, a company that uses blockchain and artificial intelligence to help city authorities provide digital services.
- Jack Conte is an American businessman and founder of Patreon, which has been busy blocking funds to independent media for many years.
- Karina Gould Canadian minister of families, children and social development since October 26, 2021.
- Gaurav Gupta - Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Zomato, an Indian restaurant aggregator and food delivery start-up. He launched the table reservation business and scaled it up across India, the United Arab Emirates and Australia.
- Sanna Marin - Marin held her first political post at the age of 27. Despite a total lack of experience, she was Finland's Prime Minister during the COVID-19 deep event.
- Annalena Baerbock is a German politician serving as the co-leader of Alliance 90/The Greens. Favorite by the commercially-controlled media for Chancellor of Germany.
- Alicia Garza - A co-founder of Black Lives Matter, Garza is a US civil rights activist and editorial writer influential on issues of health, student rights, rights for domestic workers, and campaigns against police brutality, racism, and violence against gender non-conforming people of colour.
- Kate Gallego - As mayor of Phoenix, Arizona, stated in July 2020 that one of the major health care providers in the city, had been forced to order refrigerated trucks because its hospitals have exhausted their morgue capacity. The provider later released a statement contradicting the mayor’s claims, clarifying that “hospitals currently have adequate morgue space.”
- Kristo Kaarmann - Co-founder and CEO of TransferWise, a peer-to-peer money transfer business which aims to allow people to access the real mid-market exchange rate by cutting out traditional banking fees.
- Larry Madowo - The BBC Africa Business Editor launched of six new business TV shows for African audiences in English, French and Swahili. Madowo is also an on-air correspondent on BBC radio and television and has reported from more than 40 countries.
- Henry Motte-Muñoz - Founder and CEO of Edukasyon.ph, which says it is the largest youth platform in the Philippines, empowering more than 10 million student visitors each year to find their path from education to career.
- Akiko Naka - Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Wantedly, a social networking service for professionals, Akiko was the youngest female founder ever to take a company public in Japan.
- Yetnebersh Nigussie - An Ethiopian human rights lawyer who pushes for women’s and girls’ rights and inclusive education.