WEF/Annual Meeting/1997
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| Date | January 1997 |
| Location | Davos, Switzerland |
| Description | Harvard University political scientist Samuel P. Huntington, who died in 2008, is credited with coining the term "Davos Man" to refer to what he regarded as a global elite, a minority, who "have little need for national loyalty, view national boundaries as obstacles that thankfully are vanishing, and see national governments as residues from the past whose only useful function is to facilitate the elite’s global operations." |
| Planners | WEF |
| Participants | Klaus Schwab, Nelson Mandela, Wole Soyinka, Yehudi Menuhin, Shashi Tharoor, Tao Ho, Thomas Klestil, Robert Mugabe, Amjad Ali Khan, Fred Bergsten, Peter Sutherland, Lawrence Summers, Nabil Sha’ath, Yasser Arafat, Benjamin Netanyahu, Ferdinand Piëch, Prince Albert II of Monaco, Jean-Luc Dehaene, Jean-Claude Trichet, Theodor Waigel, Bill Gates, Mike Dertouzos |
The 1997 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting was held in Davos, Switzerland in January 1997.[1]
Participants
Own words
The Foundation launched the "Partnership Concept" for its various activities. This would enable the Forum to forge deeper relationships with certain member companies that could provide specialized knowledge and critical expertise.
Harvard University political scientist Samuel P. Huntington, who died in 2008, is credited with coining the term "Davos Man" to refer to what he regarded as a global elite, a minority, who "have little need for national loyalty, view national boundaries as obstacles that thankfully are vanishing, and see national governments as residues from the past whose only useful function is to facilitate the elite’s global operations."[2]
Known Participants
12 of the 22 of the participants already have pages here:
| Participant | Description |
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| Yasser Arafat | Leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization for 35 years |
| Jean-Luc Dehaene | Attended the 2004 Bilderberg as former Prime Minister of Belgium |
| Bill Gates | Multi-billionaire computer businessman, was "very close" to Epstein, Pushing a mass vaccination agenda in 2021. Called a Napoleon and drug trafficker repeatedly caught by the court of Washington D.C in the early 2000s. |
| Thomas Klestil | President of Austria 4 years after attending the 1988 Bilderberg |
| Nelson Mandela | South African ANC leader and President of South Africa. |
| Robert Mugabe | |
| Benjamin Netanyahu | Israeli deep politician who has been Prime Minister of Israel |
| Klaus Schwab | German economist, Bilderberg Steering committee, World Economic Forum Board of Trustees |
| Lawrence Summers | US Deep State actor "I've always thought that under-populated countries in Africa are vastly UNDER-polluted" |
| Peter Sutherland | A deep politician who held some key posts including Chairman of Goldman Sachs, WTO head, Attorney General of Ireland ... |
| Jean-Claude Trichet | President of the European Central Bank, Governor of the Bank of France, Bilderberg Steering committee |
| Theo Waigel | German politician |
