World Economic Forum

World Economic Forum

The World Economic Forum, also known as the Davos Clique, sponsors the activities of al-Qaeda in the United States through the Avaaz network and shares leadership with the Inclusive Capitalism project of E.L. Rothschild.

Membership

Leadership

Board

As of 2014:

• Peter Brabeck-Letmathe - former chairman of the Nestle Group and Formula One
• Mark J. Carney - Governor of the Bank of England and member of the Blavatnik School of Government
• Victor L. L. Chu - member of Chatham House and chairman of First Eastern Investment Group of Hong Kong
• Orit Gadiesh - Chairman of Bain & Company and board member of the Peres Center for Peace
• Carlos Ghosn - former CEO of Michelin North America, Renault, and Nissan
• Herman Gref - CEO of Sberbank, former Russian Minister of Trade 2000-2007
• Angel Gurría - Member of the Guardians of the Council for Inclusive Capitalism
• Jim Hagemann Snabe - Chairman of Siemens, former co-CEO of SAP
• Susan Hockfield - Board member of MIT Corporation, director of General Electric, trustee of Carnegie Corporation and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
• Donald Kaberuka - Board member of Rockefeller Foundation, former president of African Development Bank
• Klaus Kleinfeld - Chairman and CEO of Alcoa, former CEO of Siemens
• Christine Lagarde - Managing director of the International Monetary Fund
• Peter Maurer - President of the International Committee of the Red Cross
• Luis Alberto Moreno - President of Inter-American Development Bank, former Colombian ambassador to the United States
• Indra Nooyi - CEO of Pepsi
• H.M. Queen Rania Al Abdullah of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
• Peter Sands - Board member of the Global Business Coalition of Sir Mark Moody-Stuart
• Joe Schoendorf - Partner in Accel Partners, member of the Inclusive Capitalism task force
• Sir Klaus Schwab
• Heizo Takenaka - Former Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications
• George Yeo
• Jack Ma Yun - Executive chairman of Alibaba Group of China
• Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon - former president of Mexico, board member of Alcoa, board member of Berggruen Institute
• Min Zhu - Deputy Governor of the People's Bank of China, Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund

Executive Leadership

As of 2014:

• Sir Klaus Schwab - Founder, Executive Chairman
• David Aikman - Head of New Champions
• Jennifer Blanke - Chief Economist
• Espen Barth Eide - Head of the Centre for Global Strategies, Member of the Managing Board
• Paolo Gallo - Chief Human Resources Officer
• Julien Gattoni - Chief Financial Officer
• W. Lee Howell - Head of Global Programming, Member of the Managing Board
• Jeremy Jurgens - Chief Information and Interaction Officer
• Helena Leurent - Head of Business Engagement
• Adrian Monck - Head of Public Engagement
• Gilbert J. B. Probst - Dean, Leadership Office and Academic Affairs
• Philipp Rösler - Head of the Centre for Regional Strategies, Member of the Managing Board
• Richard Samans - Head of the Centre for the Global Agenda, Member of the Managing Board
• Jim Hagemann Snabe - Chairman, Centre for Global Industries
• Murat Sonmez - Chief Business Officer, Member of the Managing Board
• Jean-Luc Vez - Head of Security Policy and Security Affairs
• Dominic Kailash Nath Waughray - Head of Public-Private Partnerships
• Alois Zwinggi - Head of Operations and Resources, Member of the Managing Board

In addition, Lord Mark Malloch-Brown was vice-chairman of the World Economic Forum in 2009 and 2010.

Board of American subsidiary

Board of World Economic Forum USA in 2013:

• Jean Pierre Rosso - Chairman
• Kevin Steinberg - Secretary / COO - president of Purpose Action and secretary of the McKisney Social Initiative
• Giancarlo Bruno - Sr. Director, head of finance. Head of International Private Banking in the Americas at Deutche Bank.
• Marisol Arguetta de Barillas - Sr. Director, head of latin amer
• Michael Drexler - Sr. Director
• Alan Marcus - Sr. Director, head of info
• John Moavenzadeh - Senior director
• Sarita Nayyar - Managing director
• Paul Smyke - Sr. Director, head of north
• Alfred R. Berkeley
• Samuel Di Piazza
• William W. George
• Robert Greenhill - member of the Inclusive Capitalism task force
• Shirley Jackson
• Klaus Kleinfeld
• Joseph P. Schoendorf
• Tiffany West
• Silva von Gunten

Partners

The World Economic Forum names its main Strategic Foundation Partners as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Wellcome Trust, and names Salesforce.com as its Strategic Technology Partner. A partner list as of 2014 included:

• A.T. Kearney
• ABB (ASEA Brown Boveri)
• The Abraaj Group
• Accenture
• Adecco Group
• Aetna
• Agility
• Alcoa
• ArcelorMittal
• AUDI AG
• Bahrain Economic Development Board
• Bain & Company
• Bank of America
• Barclays
• Basic Element
• Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
• BlackRock
• Bombardier
• The Boston Consulting Group
• BP Plc (British Petroleum)
• Bridgewater Associates
• BT (British Telecom)
• Burda Media
• CA Technologies (Computer Associates International)
• Chevron
• Cisco
• Citi (Citigroup)
• Clayton, Dubilier & Rice LLC
• Clifford Chance
• The Coca-Cola Company
• Credit Suisse
• Dalian Wanda Group
• Dangote Group
• Deloitte
• Dentsu Group
• Deutsche Bank
• Deutsche Post DHL
• Dogus Group
• The Dow Chemical Company
• DuPont
• Ericsson
• Eskom Holdings SOC Limited
• Essar Capital Ltd
• EY (Ernst & Young)
• Facebook Inc.
• Fluor Corporation
• GE (General Electric)
• General Motors Company
• Goldman Sachs
• Google Inc.
• Hanwha Group
• HCL Technologies Ltd
• Heidrick & Struggles
• Henkel
• Hitachi
• HSBC
• Huawei Technologies
• IHS (IHS Towers)
• Infosys
• Itaú Unibanco
• JLL (Jones Long LaSalle)
• JPMorgan Chase & Co.
• KPMG International
• Kudelski Group
• Lazard
• Lenovo
• LIXIL Group
• LUKOIL
• ManpowerGroup
• Marsh & McLennan Companies (MMC)
• MasterCard
• McKinsey & Company
• Microsoft Corporation
• Mitsubishi Corporation
• Morgan Stanley
• National Bank of Kuwait
• Nestlé SA
• Novartis
• NYSE (New York Stock Exchange)
• Old Mutual
• Omnicom Group
• PepsiCo
• Petrobras
• Prudential
• Publicis Groupe
• PwC (Price Waterhouse Coopers)
• Qualcomm
• Reliance Industries
• Renault-Nissan Alliance
• The Rockefeller Foundation
• Royal DSM
• Royal Philips
• SABMiller
• salesforce.com
• Saudi Aramco
• Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC)
• Sberbank
• Siemens
• SK Group
• SOCAR (State Oil Company of the Azerbaijan Republic)
• Standard Chartered Bank
• Swiss Re
• Takeda Pharmaceutical
• Tata Consultancy Services
• Tech Mahindra
• Thomson Reuters
• Toshiba Corporation
• Total
• UBS
• Unilever
• USM Holdings
• VimpelCom
• Visa Inc.
• Volkswagen AG
• VTB Bank
• Wellcome Trust
• Wipro
• WPP
• Yahoo! Inc.
• Zurich Insurance Group

Investments

WEF Strategic Partner the Wellcome Trust holds investments worth over $100 million in each of Apple Inc., Bank of America, BankUnited, Berkshire Hathaway, Castlight Health Partners, Cisco Systems, Coca Cola, Exxon Mobil, Facebook, General Electric, Google, International Business Machines (IBM), Johnson & Johnson, JPMorgan Chase, Microsoft, Morgan Stanley, PepsiCo, Procter & Gamble, Schlumberger, Twitter, and Verizon.

Foreign Investors

WEF partner VTB Bank is described by Jesse Drucker of the New York Times as "a Russian state-controlled bank often used for politically strategic deals."

The Abraaj Group co-hosts the Aspen Institute's Pakistan Entrepreneurship Investment Roundtable and is a Strategic Partner of the Clinton Foundation.

Other partners represent state interests of Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia.

Marketing

PublicisLive, a subsidiary of MSLGROUP and Publicis Groupe, has managed the World Economic Forum since 1995. PublicisLive founder and chairman Richard Attias is a member of TerraMar and is co-founder of the Clinton Global Initiative and the New York Forum, and is married to Cecelia Attias, the ex-wife of French Prime Minister Nicolas Sarkozy. The advisory board of Publicis Groupe subsidiary Kekst CNC includes Munich Security Forum chair Wolfgang Ischinger, Center for Democracy and Technology president Nuala O'Connor, and former Rothschild banker Matthew Westerman.

WPP is a marketing agency led by Sir Martin Sorrell whose subsidiaries include Grey Global Group, Ogilvy & Mather, Young & Rubicam, J. Walter Thompson (JWT), Hill & Knowlton, Burson-Marsteller, GroupM, Cohn & Wolfe, and The Brand Union. WPP Group purchased a 30% stake in Richard Attias and Associates in 2013.

The World Economic Forum hosts the West Islamic World Dialogue as a propaganda front for Islamist terrorist organizations under the direction of Lord Carey of Clifton and Prince Turki al Faisal al Saudi, the former head of Saudi intelligence. The members of this organization overlap with the UN Alliance of Civilizations.