2012 World Economic Forum at Davos

By siliconindia   |   Thursday, 26 January 2012, 01:19 IST   |    1 Comments
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Young Global Leaders at World Economic Forum – The community of Young Global Leaders was launched in 2005 and the people belonging to this group are the successors of Global Leaders of Tomorrow. Young Global Leaders aim to generate a road-map as to how the world should be by the year 2030. New members of this group are selected every year and this number is roughly around 1,111. People belonging to this group are - Niklas Zennström, Kimmie Weeks, Stephan Morais, Hamdan bin Mohammed Al Maktoum, Jimmy Wales, Peter Thiel, Premal Shah, Aaron McCormack, Anoushka Shankar, Christopher Schläffer, Mar Roxas, Lewis Gordon Pugh, Larry Page, Gavin Newsom, Euvin Naidoo, Aditya Mittal, Irshad Manji, Silvana Koch-Mehrin, Abdulsalam Haykal, Crown Prince Haakon of Norway, Scott J. Freidheim, Kelly Chen, Kenneth Griffin, Rahul Gandhi, Jens Martin Skibsted, Roger Federer, Olafur Eliasson, Patrick Chappatte, Tyler Brûlé, Sergey Brin, Ian Bremmer, Fatmir Besimi, Lera Auerbach, Maria Consuelo Araujo, Anousheh Ansari and Shai Agassi. The members of Young Global Leaders hail from diverse fields, like – royalty, sports, politics, music and business. This makes sure that opinions from the people of all these categories will be heard.