Best of 2013: The year in pictures

From the Annual Meeting in January to the Summit on the Global Agenda in November, here is a selection of pictures from World Economic Forum events held in 2013.

Aung San Suu Kyi, Chairperson of the National League for Democracy, at the World Economic Forum on East Asia 2013 in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar.

Shimon Peres, President of Israel, John Kerry, US Secretary of State, and Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian National Authority, at the World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa 2013, held in Jordan last May.

Dennis Meadows, from the University of New Hampshire, speaking at the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2013 in China, while Sheryl Sandberg from Facebook and Hu Shuli from Caixin Media listen in.

Gastón Acurio is interviewed at the World Economic Forum on Latin America 2013, in Lima, Peru.

An aerial view of Davos, where the Annual Meeting 2013 took place between 23 – 27 January.

Flags from different nations at the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting 2013.

Arrival day at the Congress Centre at the Annual Meeting 2013 in Davos-Klosters, 22 January 2013. 

Opening Plenary at the World Economic Forum on Africa 2013, which took place in Cape Town, South Africa, in May.

Participants ride the escalator through the new Dalian International Convention Center at the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2013 in China.

 This year’s Summit on the Global Agenda took place in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, between 18 – 20 November.