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January 23, 2016
World Economic Forum Announces New Board of Trustees
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Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, 23 January 2016 - The Board of Trustees of the World Economic Forum yesterday elected Jim Yong Kim, President, The World Bank, Washington DC; and Marc R. Benioff, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Salesforce, USA, as its new members.
As of 22 January 2016, the Members of the Board of Trustees of the World Economic Forum are:
- Klaus SCHWAB, Chairman of the Board of Trustees
- Patrick AEBISCHER, President, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne, Switzerland
- H.M. Queen Rania AL ABDULLAH of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
- Mukesh AMBANI, Chairman and Managing Director, Reliance Industries, India
- Marc R. BENIOFF, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Salesforce, USA
- Peter BRABECK-LETMATHE, Chairman of the Board, Nestle, Switzerland
- Mark CARNEY, Chairman, Financial Stability Board; Governor of the Bank of England
- Katherine GARRETT-COX, CBE, Chief Executive Officer, Alliance Trust Plc, United Kingdom
- Orit GADIESH, Chairman, Bain & Company, USA
- Al GORE, Vice-President of the United States (1993-2001); Chairman and Co-Founder, Generation Investment Management, USA
- Herman GREF, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Sberbank, Russian Federation
- Angel GURRÍA, Secretary-General, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Paris
- Susan HOCKFIELD, President Emerita and Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA
- Jim Yong KIM, President, The World Bank, Washington DC
- Klaus KLEINFELD, Chairman and Chief Executive, Alcoa Inc., USA
- Christine LAGARDE, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund, Washington DC
- Jack MA, Executive Chairman, Alibaba Group, People’s Republic of China
- Peter MAURER, President, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Switzerland
- Luis MORENO, President, Inter-American Development Bank, Washington DC
- Indra NOOYI, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, PepsiCo, USA
- Joe SCHOENDORF, Venture Partner, Accel Partners, USA
- Jim Hagemann SNABE, Member of the Board, SAP AG, Siemens AG, Allianz SE, Germany
- Heizo TAKENAKA, Director, Global Security Research Institute, Keio University, Japan; Minister of State for Economic and Fiscal Policy of Japan (2002-2006)
- George YEO, Chancellor, Nalanda University; Minister of Foreign Affairs of Singapore (2004-2011)
- Min ZHU, Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund, Washington DC
Over 2,500 leaders from business, government, international organizations, civil society, academia, media and the arts are participating in the 46th World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, on 20-23 January, 2016.
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