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Published: 9 September 2024

Annual Report 2023-2024

Leadership and Governance

Founder and Chairman

Klaus Schwab

Managing Board

Børge Brende, President

Mirek Dušek, Managing Director

Jeremy Jurgens, Managing Director

Gim Huay Neo, Managing Director

Olivier Schwab, Managing Director

Saadia Zahidi, Managing Director

Alois Zwinggi, Managing Director

Board of Trustees

Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum

Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, Vice-Chairman of the Board of Trustees, World Economic Forum

Mukesh D. Ambani, Chairman and Managing Director, Reliance Industries

Ajay S. Banga, President, World Bank Group

Marc Benioff, Chair and Chief Executive Officer, Salesforce

Thomas Buberl, Chief Executive Officer, AXA

Laurence D. Fink, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, BlackRock

Chrystia Freeland, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Canada

Orit Gadiesh, Chairman, Bain & Company

Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Fabiola Gianotti, Director-General, European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)

Al Gore, Vice-President of the United States (1993-2001); Chairman and Co-Founder, Generation Investment Management LLP

André Hoffmann, Chairman, Massellaz

Paula Ingabire, Minister of Information Communication Technology and Innovation of Rwanda

Joe Kaeser, Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Siemens Energy

Christine Lagarde, President, European Central Bank

Yo-Yo Ma, Cellist

Patrice Motsepe, Founder and Executive Chairman, African Rainbow Minerals

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director-General, World Trade Organization (WTO)

Lubna S. Olayan, Chair of the Executive Committee, Olayan Financing Company

H.M. Queen Rania Al Abdullah of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

David M. Rubenstein, Co-Founder and Co-Chairman, Carlyle

Mark Schneider, Chief Executive Officer, Nestlé

Tharman Shanmugaratnam, President of Singapore

Jim Hagemann Snabe, Chairman, Siemens

Julie Sweet, Chair and Chief Executive Officer, Accenture

Feike Sybesma, Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Royal Philips

Heizo Takenaka, Professor Emeritus, Keio University

Zhu Min, Vice-Chairman, China Center for International Economic Exchanges

Executive Committee

Kiva Allgood, Head, Centre for Advanced Manufacturing and Supply Chains

Nicki Allitt, Head, Communication Strategy and Coordination

Marisol Argueta de Barillas, Head, Regional Agenda, Latin America

Francisco Betti, Head, Global Industries Team

Shyam Bishen, Head, Centre for Health and Healthcare

Matthew Blake, Head, Centre for Financial and Monetary Systems

Roberto Bocca, Head, Centre for Energy and Materials

Francois Bonnici, Director, Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship; Head, Foundations

Sebastian Buckup, Head, Network and Partnerships, Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Network

Liming Chen, Chair, Greater China

Sean Doherty, Head, International Trade and Investment

John Dutton, Head, Uplink

Rhiannon Evans, Chief Financial Officer

Malte Godbersen, Head, Technology and Digital Services

Pedro Gomez, Head, Climate

Fernando J. Gómez, Head, Resource Systems and Resilience

Chieh Huang, President, Global Collaboration Village

Jack Hurd, Executive Director, Tropical Forest Alliance

Zara Ingilizian, Head, Consumer Industries

Philippe Isler, Director, Global Alliance for Trade Facilitation

Ramya Krishnaswamy, Head, Institutional Communities and ESG Initiative

Joo-Ok Lee, Head, Regional Agenda, Asia-Pacific

Cathy Li, Head, AI, Data and Metaverse

Uxio Malvido, Head, People & Culture, Chief HR Officer

Viraj Mehta, Head, Regional Agenda, India and South Asia

Stephan Mergenthaler, Head, Strategic Intelligence

Jeff Merritt, Head, Centre for Urban Transformation

Derek O’Halloran, Head, Product Portfolio and Growth

Kelly Ommundsen, Head, Digital Inclusion

Severin Podolak, Head, Event Production

Nicola Christine Port, Chief Legal Officer

Alexandre Raffoul, Head, Regional Business Strategy

Mel Rogers, Head, Strategic Affairs

Nicole Schwab, Co-Head, Nature-Based Solutions

Paul Smyke, Head, Regional Agenda, North America

Roberto Tinnirello, Head, Business Strategy and Services

Yann Zopf, Head, Media Engagement

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