Some of the key participants at the world economic forum annual meeting foe the year 2007 are as follows:
Co-Chairs:
- John Browne of Madingley, Group Chief Executive, BP, United Kingdom
- Michelle Guthrie, Chief Executive Officer, Star Group, Hong Kong SAR
- E. Neville Isdell, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, The Coca-Cola Company, USA
- Sunil Bharti Mittal, Chairman and Group Managing Director, Bharti Enterprises, India
- James J. Schiro, Group Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Group Management Board, Zurich Financial Services, Switzerland
- Eric Schmidt, Chairman of the Executive Committee and Chief Executive Officer, Google, USA
Head of International Organizations:
- Mohamed M. ElBaradei, Director-General, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna;
- Richard Feachem, Executive Director, Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Geneva;
- Pascal Lamy, Director-General, World Trade Organization (WTO), Geneva;
- Peter Piot, Executive Director, Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), Geneva;
- Ann M. Veneman, Executive Director, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), New York;
- Paul D. Wolfowitz, President, World Bank, Washington DC;
- Koichiro Matsuura, Director-General, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Paris;
- Achim Steiner, Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Nairobi;
- Heizo Takenaka, Director, Global Security Research Institute, Keiko University, Japan.
NGO and Labour Leaders:
- Irene Khan, Secretary-General, Amnesty International; Kenneth Roth, Executive Director, Human Rights Watch;
- Barbara Stocking, Director, Oxfam Great Britain;
- Hany El Banna, President, Islamic Relief;
- Gerd Leipold, Executive Director, Greenpeace International;
- Markku Niskala, Secretary-General, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies;
- Guy Ryder, General Secretary, International Trade Union Confederation;
- Sharan Burrow, President, Australian Council of Trade Unions;
- Philip Jennings, General Secretary, UNI Global Union;
Apart from this the heads of states and Governments among the various countries over the world will participate. Even the personalities in the fields of cultural world will join in the meeting.
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