Who is – and who is not – attending the World Economic Forum?

The World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Annual Meeting 2023 will take place from January 16 to 20 in Davos, Switzerland.

The Annual Meeting brings together leaders from government, business and civil society to address the state of the world and discuss priorities for the year ahead.

Established in 1971 by the German economist Klaus Schwab, the event was originally known as the European Management Forum, until a name change in 1987.

The theme this year is “Cooperation in a Fragmented World”.

According to the organisers, more than 2,700 leaders from 130 countries, including 52 heads of state and government, will be attending the annual meeting in the alpine resort town.

Germany’s Olaf Scholz is the only G7 leader scheduled to attend the event. On Sunday, South African president Cyril Ramaphosa’s spokesperson announced that the president would not be attending the event due to an ongoing energy crisis in the country.

Europe:

Alain Berset – president of the Swiss Confederation 2023 and Federal Councillor of Home Affairs
Alexander De Croo – prime minister of Belgium
Andrzej Duda – president of Poland
Christine Lagarde – president of the European Central Bank
Sanna Marin – prime minister of Finland
Roberta Metsola – president of the European Parliament
Kyriakos Mitsotakis – pime minister of Greece
Mark Rutte – prime minister of the Netherlands
Pedro S?nchez – prime minister of Spain
Maia Sandu – president of the Republic of Moldova
Olaf Scholz – federal chancellor of Germany
Leo Varadkar – taoiseach of Ireland
Ursula von der Leyen – president of the European Commission
Aleksandar Vu?i? – president of Serbia

Americas:

Chrystia Freeland – deputy prime minister and minister of finance of Canada
Avril Haines – US director of national intelligence
John F Kerry – special US presidential envoy for climate
Katherine Tai – US trade representative
Gustavo Francisco Petro Urrego – president of Colombia
Martin J. Walsh – US secretary of labor

Africa:

Aziz Akhannouch – head of government of Morocco
Najla Bouden – prime minister of tunisia
Samia SuluhuHassan – president of the United Republic of Tanzania
F?lix Tshisekedi – president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Asia:

Ilham Aliyev – president of the Republic of Azerbaijan
Ferdinand Marcos, Jr – president of the Philippines
Yoon Suk-yeol – president of the Republic of Korea

International:

Fatih Birol – executive director, International Energy Agency
Mirjana Spoljaric Egger – president, International Committee of the Red Cross.
Antonio Guterres – UN secretary-general
Kristalina Georgieva – managing director, International Monetary Fund
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus – director general, World Health Organization
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala – Director general, World Trade Organization
Catherine Russell – executive director, UNICEF
Jens Stoltenberg, secretary-general, North Atlantic Treaty Organization