WEF/Annual Meeting/1989
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| Date | January 1989 |
| Location | Davos, Switzerland |
| Description | This year, the Forum adopted a new motto – "entrepreneurship in the global public interest" |
| Planners | WEF |
| Participants | Raymond Barre, Tessa Bielecki, Bill Bradley, Gro Harlem Brundtland, Michel Camdessus, Korn Dabbaransi, Jean-Pascal Delamuraz, Jacques Delors, Helmut Haussmann, Immanuel Jakobovits, Mario Vargas Llosa, Shirley MacLane, Wilfried Martens, Helmut Maucher, Robert Mugabe, David C. Mulford, Harry Oppenheimer, Carlos Andrés Perez, Radius Prawiro, Carlo Rubbia, Eishiro Saito, Klaus Schwab, Anibal Cavaco Silva, Minister Cho Soon, Dean Lester Thurow, Franz Vranitzky, Manfred Wörner, David Ivor Young |
The 1989 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting was held in Davos, Switzerland in January 1989.[1]
Participants
A hallmark of the 1980s was the substantial expansion of the membership of the World Economic Forum. By 1989, over half of the Forum's members came from outside Europe.[2][3]
Own words
The Davos Annual Meeting was the most compelling evidence of the global breadth and depth of the Forum's activities. Consider the diversity of topics and the richness of the discussions that engaged participants this year. Among the highlights:
- Carlo Rubbia, the 1984 Nobel Physics Prize winner and Director-General of CERN (Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire, or European Council for Nuclear Research), predicted that the world would be forced to give up fossil fuels before their natural end due to high overall costs and that nuclear energy would be the inevitable alternative, with safety the determining factor in its adoption.
- Dean Lester Thurow of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management made the provocative prediction that “GATT (the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) is dead,” arguing that the world was moving towards three trading blocs: North America, Europe and the Asia Pacific.
- Harry Oppenheimer, former Chairman of Anglo American Corporation, argued that the system of apartheid was fundamentally wrong and anticipated that the current instability in South Africa would lead to change. (One year later, the African National Congress leader and anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela would be released from prison.)
- South Korea's Deputy Prime Minister Cho Soon, Indonesia's Coordinating Minister Radius Prawiro, and Korn Dabbaransi, Minister in the Thai Prime Minister's Office, three representatives of the Asian economic “tigers”, debated the implications of the region's new economic power.
Known Participants
16 of the 28 of the participants already have pages here:
| Participant | Description |
|---|---|
| Raymond Barre | French PM, single Bilderberger |
| Bill Bradley | US Senator from New Jersey |
| Gro Harlem Brundtland | Deep state/WHO connected Prime Minister/DG, concerned about "too much freedom of speech" |
| Michel Camdessus | IMF MD |
| Jean-Pascal Delamuraz | Single Bilderberger Member of the Swiss Federal Council. Managed to get Switzerland into the World Trade Organization in 11994 without a referendum. |
| Jacques Delors | Spearheaded European integration and the euro in close cooperation with the European Roundtable of Industrialists |
| Helmut Haussmann | Quad Bilderberger German politician |
| Mario Vargas Llosa | Nobel Prize winner in Literature and neoliberal champion |
| Wilfred Martens | Quad Bilderberg Belgian politician honoured for his contribution to European integration. Mentioned in the Belgian X-dossiers of the Dutroux affair as participating in rape and torture events. |
| Helmut Maucher | CEO of Nestlé from June 1990 to June 1997, where he attended the 1992 and Bilderberg meeting |
| Robert Mugabe | |
| Harry Oppenheimer | One of the world's richest men. |
| Klaus Schwab | German economist, Bilderberg Steering committee, World Economic Forum Board of Trustees |
| Franz Vranitzky | Chancellor of Austria, central banker, Bilderberg Steering committee |
| Manfred Wörner | Deep state operative? Secretary General of NATO. |
| David Ivor Young | UK politician and right-hand man to Thatcher during the controversial state privatisations of the 1980s, and attended the 1985 and 1986 Bilderberg meetings when mooted as possible future PM. |
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