WEF/Annual Meeting/1995
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 Boutros Boutros-Ghali (left), Secretary-General of the United Nations, Klaus Schwab (middle), founder and president of the World Economic Forum, and Flavio Cotti, member of the Swiss Federal Council, at the 1995 World Economic Forum. | |
| Date | January 1995 |
| Location | Davos, Switzerland |
| Description | On occasion of the 25th anniversary of the World Economic Forum, Klaus Schwab published a book musing on "Ensuring sustainability in an overpopulated world". |
| Planners | WEF |
| Participants | Klaus Schwab, Ben Okri, Christo, Jeanne-Claude, Zhu Rongji, Nadine Gordimer, Rupert Murdoch, Carla Del Ponte, Barbara Hendricks, Manmohan Singh, Ravi Shankar, Laura Tyson, Hilde Schwab, Juan Carlos Wasmosy, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Flavio Cotti, Ingvar Carlsson?, Roy M. Huffington, David Saul, Nicholas Negroponte, Tansu Çiller, Jim Bolger, Shridath Ramphal |
The 1995 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting was held in Davos, Switzerland in January 1995.[1][2]
Participants
The Forum brought together 850 business people with 40 heads of state and 160 Government Ministers.[3]
Own words
This year marked the 25th anniversary of the World Economic Forum.[4] The occasion prompted Klaus Schwab to reflect on the organization's achievements. To promote global cooperation, Schwab put together and published the book Overcoming Indifference: Ten Key Challenges in Today’s Changing World. He believed that the world was at a critical turning point. It was imperative to reassess the fundamental assumptions of global society. Yet this pressing need had been met with indifference, Schwab argued. The 10 key challenges identified in the book were:
- Coping with the disintegration of value systems
- Maintaining global security
- Facing the new inequalities
- Ensuring sustainability in an overpopulated world
- Living in the new information society
- Keeping pace with a globalizing economy
- Integrating Asia
- Creating sufficient employment
- Ensuring national policy-making in a global world
- Re-engineering the corporation
After the 1995 Meeting, author Ben Okri wrote to Schwab about what the Nigerian poet and novelist called the "Davos secret, or the Davos dream". The Forum, he declared, "gets better and better, more encompassing, more useful and more enriching. Future ages will refer to it as one of the secret wellsprings of the 20th century that helped with the renewal of the human spirit.|
Known Participants
9 of the 23 of the participants already have pages here:
| Participant | Description |
|---|---|
| Boutros Boutros-Ghali | "The UN Secretary General the West Loved to Hate" |
| Flavio Cotti | Swiss politician who attended 4 Bilderbergs in the 1990s, when he led attempts to further Switzerland's political integration into the European Union. |
| Rupert Murdoch | Australian-American media mogul who uses his power as part of the deep state. |
| Nicholas Negroponte | Founder of Wired, brother of John Negroponte |
| Ben Okri | Nigerian born British WEF GLT 1993 poet |
| Klaus Schwab | German economist, Bilderberg Steering committee, World Economic Forum Board of Trustees |
| Manmohan Singh | Le Cercle |
| Laura D'Andrea Tyson | American economist. She worked in the Clinton Administration. |
| Tansu Çiller | The Susurluk car crash in 1996 revealed the relations between deep state organizations and Çiller's government. |
