WEF/Young Global Leaders/2021
WEF/Young Global Leaders
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| Abbreviation | YGL/2021 |
| Membership | Tendayi Achiume, Daniel Ahn, Peter Biar Ajak, Anulika Ajufo, Esraa Al-Buti, Erica Alessandri, Mohamed Al Hashemi, Suren Aloyan, Elham Al Qasim, Alanoud Bint Hamad Al Thani, Nathalia Arcuri, Aditi Avasthi, Shiho Azuma, Maleeka Bokhari, Srikanth Bolla, Christoph Bornschein, Andrew Bragg, Sinéad Burke, Adriana Cargill, Luis Felipe Cervantes Legorreta, Matthew Chamberlain, Arvan Chan, Nirvana Chaudhary, Francesca Chia, Alexis Crow, Thomas Crowther, Rose Damen, Vera Daves de Sousa, Alberto de Belaunde, Alexander de Carvalho, Anne-Laure de Chammard, Sangu Delle, Amélie de Montchalin, Abasi Ene-Obong, El Seed Faouzi, Fawaz Farooqui, Cristina Fonseca, Laure Forgeron, Jocelyn Formsma, Laura Gersch, Garlin Gilchrist II, Pierre-Dimitri Gore-Coty, Megan Greenfield, Andrey A. Guryev, Martín Guzmán, He Zhengyu, Dalal Saeb Iriqat, Jessica Jackson, Dana Juffa, Nari Kahle, Gazal Kalra, Gadeer Kamal-Mreeh, Brian Kaufmann, Conrod Kelly, Ibram X Kendi, Shreevar Kheruka, Sophie Seula Kim, Terrence Kommal, Sanae Lahlou, Seung Gun Lee, Catherine Lenson, Yifan Li, Li Ni, Haley Lowry, Lu Chaoyang, Luiza Mattos, Jessica Mauboy, Lukas Nelson, Wawira Njiru, Mohammad Salem Omaid, Adriana Ortiz, Obi Ozor, Burcu Ozturk, Amit Paley, Roberto Patiño, Xue Peng, Gregoire Pictet, Ameya Prabhu, Zhuang Qian, Kira Radinsky, Rohan Ramakrishnan, Vivek Ramaswamy, Hriday Ravindranath, Paul Rivera, Kishin RK, Anneliese Schulz, Emily Serazin, Izkia Siches, Virginijus Sinkevicius, Liam Sobey, Devi Sridhar, Tanit Chearavanont, Vasudha Vats, Claudia Vergueiro Massei, Hitesh Wadhwa, David Alexander Walcott, Wang Guan, Ricardo Weder, Lea Wermelin, Silvia Wiesner, Gareth Wong, Chen Wu |
| WEF's Young Global Leaders of 2021 | |
The class of 2021 was made up of 113 individuals. The previous year's cadre is listed at WEF/Young Global Leaders/2020. The next year's cadre is listed at WEF/Young Global Leaders/2022. Many of them played public facing roles in the Covid event such as Andrey Guryev, Izkia Siches & Devi Sridhar. The list included the incumbent finance ministers of Angola and Argentina.
Selected Examples
- Andrew Bragg is an Australian politician. He became a Senator in 2019.
- Adriana Cargill is a member of the Cargill family, the fourth-wealthiest family in America. She works as a journalist in Los Angeles at KCRW Radio.
- Andrey Guryev. In April 2020 moderated conference on "the possibility of a dramatic transformation in the structure, principles and processes for doing business following the coronavirus pandemic."[1]
- Martín Guzmán - Argentinian Minister of Economy from 2019. Oversaw some of the longest lockdowns in the world (rumored to be after deal with George Soros).Template:Cn
- Izkia Siches - Chilean doctor prominent in corporate media during the Covid-19 deep event. In 2022 appointed Minister of Interior and Public Security, the second most important in government after new President Boric. Fan of fellow YGL, New Zealand's PM Jacinda Ardern.
- Vera Daves de Sousa was made finance minister of Angola when she was 35.
- Amélie de Montchalin is a French politician. She has been a minister under President Macron, responsible for implementing the pass sanitaire in public services.
- Garlin Gilchrist II is a US politician. He has been Gretchen Whitmer's deputy since 2019.
- Ibram X. Kendi is an American author and activist. He suggested the low take-up of Black people having the COVID vaccine is due to racism.
- Devi Sridhar is a Professor and Chair of Global Public Health at the University of Edinburgh. In 2020, she advised the Scottish government on dealing with COVID-19.
- Vasudha Vats is a Vice president of Pfizer.
Geography
The WEF categorised their young leaders by region.
YGLs by region
- Africa: 8 YGLs
- ASEAN: 9 YGLs
- Australia and Oceania: 2 YGLs
- Caribbean: 1 YGL
- Eurasia: 2 YGLs
- Europe: 23 YGLs[2]
- Greater China: 9 YGLs
- Japan: 1 YGL
- Korea and North Asia: 3 YGLs
- Latin America: 9 YGLs
- Middle East & North Africa: 12 YGLs
- North America: 20 YGLs[3]
- South Asia: 9 YGLs