WEF/Annual Meeting/2006

 WEF/Annual Meeting/2006(WEF/Annual Meeting)

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie at the 2006 summit
Date	25 January, 2006 - 29 January, 2006
Location	Davos,  Switzerland
Description	Both former US president Bill Clinton and Bill Gates pushed for public-private partnerships. Only a few of the over 2000 participants are known.
Planners	WEF
Participants	Bartholomew (Ecumenical Patriarch), Bono, Pelé, David Abney, Josef Ackermann, Deepak Advani, Montek S. Ahluwalia, Noorkhanom Ahmadzai, Sanjiv Ahuja, Jacques Aigrain, Markus Akermann, Mohamed A. Alabbar, Vagit U. Alekperov, Hajim Alhasani, John M. Allan, Mohammed H. Almady, Mukesh D. Ambani, Celso Amorim, Rebecca Anderson, Kofi Annan, Paola Antonelli, Yilmaz Argüden, Giorgio Armani, Timothy Garton Ash, Peter Athanas, Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala II, Louis Bacon, Craig R. Barrett, Matthew W. Barrett, Maria Bartiromo, Carol A. Bartz, Rosmarie Bär, Robert E. Beauchamp, Laurent Beaudoin, Charlene Begley, Alain J. Belda, Ulrich Bettermann, Jagdish Bhagwati, Hugo Bigi, Robert Bishop, Alan L. Boeckmann, Francesca Boldrini, Shelby W. Bonnie, Daniel Bouton, Youssuf Boutros-Ghali, Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, Sir Richard Branson, Reto Brennwald, Peter Brey, Sergey Brin, Leonor M. Briones, Gordon Brown, Tim Brown, Brian C. Bruce, Hubert Burda, Antony Burgmans, Sharan Burrow, Micheline Calmy-Rey, Patrick Cescau, John T. Chambers, Saxby Chambliss, Subhash Chandra, Liu Changle, Bernard Charlès, Michael G. Cherkasky, Victor L. L. Chu, Richard T. Clark, John S. Clarkeson, Lord Carey of Clifton, William J. Clinton, Angelo Codignoni, Bertrand Collomb, George F. Colony, Cristóbal Conde, William E. Conway Jr, Peter C. Cornell, Sir Nigel Crisp, Michael J. Critelli, Frank E. Dangeard, Ged Davis, Ian E. L. Davis, Joseph Deiss, Michael S. Dell, Charles Denson, Thierry Desmarest, Jayantha Dhanapala, Sheila Dikshit, Samuel A. DiPiazza Jr, Mathias Döpfner, Ulrike Ebert, Juan Luis Cebrian Echarri, Richard W. Edelman, Michael J. Elliott, Peter A. Elverding, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Marcos Espinal, John G. Evans, Pierre Jean Everaert, Richard D. Fain, H.R.H. Prince Turki Al Faisal, Richard Feachem, Reinhardt Fichtl, Robert J. Fisher, Niall FitzGerald, Steve Forbes, Christoph Franz, Franklin Frederick, Jacob A. Frenkel, Thomas L. Friedman, José Sergio de Azevedo Gabrielli, Orit Gadiesh, Pierre Gadonneix, John Gage, William H. Gates III, Thulani S. Gcabashe, Mohammad Al Gergawi, David R. Gergen, Aart Jan de Geus, Carlos Ghosn, Thomas H. Glocer, Reto Gmünder, Rick Goings, Jim Goodnight, Nik Gowing, Stuart E. Graham, Hugh Grant, William D. Green, Carl Grim, Rijkman Groenink, Gian Maria Gros-Pietro, Andreas Gross, Peter Gruss, Oswald J. Grübel, Rajat Gupta, Carlos M. Gutierrez, Richard N. Haass, Stelios Haji-Ioannou, Jürgen Hambrecht, Sheikh Hamam Hammoudi, William B. Harrison Jr, Tariq Al Hashimi, Fred Hassan, Alan G. Hassenfeld, John D. Hayes, Hubertus Heemskerk, Brian C. McK. Henderson, Dominique Heriard-Dubreuil, William V. Hickey, Stefan von Holtzbrinck, Karen E. House, David Iakobachvili, Nobuyuki Idei, David Ignatius, E. Neville Isdell, Paul E. Jacobs, Jiang Jianqing, Jorge Gerdau Johannpeter, Angelina Jolie, Nam Joong-Soo, H.M. Queen Rania of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jorda, Michael H. Jordan, Abdallah S. Jum'ah, Henning Kagermann, Anatoly Karachinsky, Hamid Karzai, Piia-Noora Kauppi, Hans-Peter Keitel, Samer S. Khoury, Ilona Kickbusch, Walter B. Kielholz, Sheila Killian, Ban Ki-Moon, Fred Kindle, Nemir A. Kirdar, Klaus Kleinfeld, Moon Kook-Hyun, Hans-Joachim Körber, Peter E. Kruse, Andrew Lack, Pascal Lamy, Shelly Lazarus, Elena Lazos, Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon, Robert E. Lerwill, Moritz Leuenberger, Urs Leuthard, Alain Levy, Thomas Leysen, Maurice Lévy, Bernard Liautaud, Vladimir Lisin, Andrew N. Liveris, Didier Lombard, Bendicht Luginbühl, Howard W. Lutnick, Dave Maddocks, Kishore Mahbubani, Adil Abdul Mahdi, Christine Maier, Peter Mandelson, Alex Mandl, Erika Mann, Hu Maoyuan, Katherine Marshall, Diarmuid Martin, Renato Raffaele Martino, John McCain, Martin McGuinn, Henry A. McKinnell, Michael McNamara, Angela Merkel, Nikhil Meswani, Armin Meyer, Robert S. Miller, William E. Mitchell, Lakshmi N. Mittal, Lalit K. Modi, Geoffrey Moore, Thomas Moran, Alexei A. Mordashov, Shosuke Mori, Patrice T. Motsepe, Amre Moussa, Craig Mundie, James R. Murdoch, Wayne W. Murdy, Christopher Murray, Pervez Musharraf, Maria Mutagamba, Shoichi Nakagawa, Kamal Nath, Marilyn Carlson Nelson, Nandan M. Nilekani, Olusegun Obasanjo, Christine Ockrent, Tadashi Okamura, Lubna S. Olayan, Marcel Ospel, Sir Lindsay Owen-Jones, Bill Owens, Frits D. Van Paasschen, Larry Page, William G. Parrett, Corrado Passera, Zeng Peiyan, Zeng Peiyan, Donald K. Peterson, Ralph R. Peterson, Heinrich von Pierer, Larry Pillard, Rafael del Pino, Bernd Pischetsrieder, Ricardo B. Salinas Pliego, Robert Polet, Roberto Poli, Kenneth M. Pollack, Robert Portman, Lord Levene of Portsoken, John E. Potter, Azim H. Premji, Charles Prince, Thomas J. Pritzker, Michael Rake, Mamphela Ramphele, Juha Rantanen, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, Eberhardt Renz, René Rhinow, Matthieu Ricard, Condoleezza Rice, Kai-Uwe Ricke, Stephen S. Roach, Jeffrey R. Rodek, James E. Rogers, Jacques Rogge, Andrew Rolfe, David Rosen, Michael I. Roth, Kenneth Roth, David Rubenstein, Michael C. Ruettgers, Hector de J. Ruiz, Patricia F. Russo, Paul Sagan, Sadayuki Sakakibara, Ghassan Salamé, Barham Salih, Arun Sarin, Mahmood Sariolghalam, James J. Schiro, Eric Schmidt, André Schneider, Urs Schottli, Klaus Schwab, Alice Schwarzer, Stephen A. Schwarzman, Louis Schweitzer, Kim Shin-Bae, Ralph W. Shrader, Bobby Shriver, William D. Singleton, Paul Skinner, Masayoshi Son, George Soros, Sir Martin Sorrell, Michael R. Splinter, Alfred Spörri, Friede Springer, David J. Stern, Barry S. Sternlicht, Jens Stoltenberg, Jack Straw, Willy R. Strothotte, Christoph Stückelberger, Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem, Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr, Lawrence H. Summers, John E. Sununu, Peter D. Sutherland, Åke Svensson, John A. Swainson, John A. Thain, Mark Thompson, Edward S. Tian, Chen Tonghai, Giulio Tremonti, James S. Turley, Laura D. Tyson, Laura D. Tyson, Junichi Ujiie, Mark Vaile, Daniel Vasella, Jaggi Vasudev, Jeroen van der Veer, Victor F. Vekselberg, Günter Verheugen, Ben J. Verwaayen, Vaira Vike-Freiberga, Jacob Wallenberg, Herbert Walter, Sing Wang, Mark R. Warner, Bärbel Wartenberg-Potter, Alberto Weisser, Werner Wenning, Elie Wiesel, Martin Winterkorn, Thomas Wipf, James Wolfensohn, Paul Wolfowitz, Zhou Xiaochuan, Zhu Yanfeng, Hiromasa Yonekura, Mel Young, Fareed Zakaria, Edward J. Zander, Niklas Zennström, Min Zhu, Wolfgang Ziebart, Lazarus Zim, Robert Zoellick, Michael Douglas, Shabana Azmi, Gilberto Gil, Muhammad Ali, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Zeng Peniyan, Kemal Dervis, Mark Adams, Nicholas Negroponte, Sol Trujillo, Laura Tyson, Stephen Roach, Elaine L. Chao

The WEF Annual Global Meeting 2006 in 2006 was held from 25-29 January, 2006, in Davos, Switzerland. The 371 participants listed are only a small selection of known "Selected Business Participants". and people who were at sessions.

Themes

The Annual Meeting had five sub-themes, which ranged from "The Emergence of China and India" and "The Changing Economic Landscape" to "New Mindsets and Changing Attitudes", "Creating Future Jobs" and "Regional Identities and Struggles".

Participants

In 2006, more than 735 chairmen and CEOs from the world’s leading companies were participating. More than 132 companies from the Fortune 500 and 94 from the FT Most Trusted companies were actively taking part. Other major categories of participants from around the world include:

• 175 public figures, including 15 heads of state or government, 60 cabinet ministers, 21 ambassadors, and 65 heads or senior officials of international organizations
• more than 490 participants from civil society including:
• 31 heads of non-governmental organizations
• 13 union leaders
• 154 leaders from academic institutions and think tanks
• 272 media leaders and fellows
• 23 religious leaders of different faiths
• 233 reporters from the world’s leading media organizations.

 

Known Participants

161 of the 371 participants already have pages here:

Participant	Description
Adil Abdul-Mahdi	Iraqi politician
David Abney
Josef Ackermann	Chairman of Deutsche Bank, G30, Bilderberg Steering Committee
Montek Ahluwalia	Global Commission for Post-Pandemic Policy, G30
Sanjiv Ahuja
Jacques Aigrain	French Bilderberg banker/businessman, JPMorgan, then Swiss Re.
Rania Al-Yassin	Queen of Jordan. She represents the royal family in many international organizations.
Mukesh Ambani	Asia's richest man living in the world's most expensive house. Selected a Global Leader for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum in 1994. By the 2010s, he sat on the board of the same World Economic Forum. Member of the Global Board of Advisors of the US Council on Foreign Relations.
Celso Amorim	Brazilian diplomat who attended a rnge of spooky conferences
Kofi Annan	Secretary-General of the United Nations 1997-2006 now working for Macro Advisory Partners
Timothy Garton Ash	UK historian promoted by the deep state, Ditchley Governor with other connections. Presented a paper to the 1989 Bilderberg. Subsequently attended two more, over a span of 30 years.
Jaime Augusto Miranda Zóbel de Ayala	Filipino businessman from the prominent Zóbel de Ayala family and a WEF stalwart.
Louis Bacon	US hedge fund manager
Maria Bartiromo	American financial journalist. CNBC, then Fox News. Overseas the Board of the Young Global Leaders program of the World Economic Forum.
Ulrich Bettermann	German-Swiss businessman with an extremely heavy WEF AGM habit
Jagdish Bhagwati	US ecoomist
Bono	Irish singer "kissing the arses of the rich and powerful and preaching on global inequality while avoiding taxes"
Youssef Boutros-Ghali	Egyptian economist politician, WEF GLT 1993
Peter Brabeck-Letmathe	Nestlé executive who attended the 2011 Bilderberg. Wants to privatize and charge for all water in the world.
Richard Branson	UK billionaire spending a lot to keep up positive image. In Epstein's Black Book
Sergey Brin	Co-founder of Google, YGL 2005
Gordon Brown	UK deep state functionary. Prime Minister from 2007-2010. WHO ambassador for Global Health Financing from 2021
Hubert Burda	Multi-billionaire publisher. 7 Bilderbergs
Antony Burgmans	Dutch businessman who attended the 2001 and 2004 Bilderberg meetings.
Sharan Burrow
Micheline Calmy-Rey
George Carey	Archbishop of Canterbury who held shielding hand over UK/VIPaedophile bishop Peter Ball. Regular at the World Economic Forum, where he was selected to speak on "values".
Juan Luis Cebrián	Spanish media mogul with a heavy Bilderberg habit.
Patrick Cescau	French chief executive
Saxby Chambliss	US lawyer with Deep State connections
Elaine Chao	In the cabinets of George W Bush and Donald Trump.
Bernard Charlès	French businessman who kicked a heavy WEF meeting habit in 2020
Victor Chu	Hong Kong-based businessman and deep state actor. GLT 1998, Chatham house governor, WEF Trustee, Atlantic Council..
Bill Clinton	US deep politician, husband of Hillary Clinton, “every bit as corrupt as Nixon, but a lot smoother”
Bertrand Collomb	Connected French businessman. 13 Bilderbergs.
William Conway	Founded the Carlyle Group
Ian Davis	English businessman associated with McKinsey & Company. Attended Bilderberg/2013.
Joseph Deiss	Economist and politician who was a Member of the Swiss Federal Council from 1999 to 2006.
Michael Dell	Computer billionaire businessman, WEF AGM regular, WEF GLT 1993
Kemal Derviş	UNDP administrator, 4 times Bilderberger, Brookings
Mathias Döpfner	"Non-Jewish Zionist" CEO of Axel Springer SE, member of the Bilderberg Steering Committee and other transatlantic networks such as Atlantik-Brücke. Became a billionaire after receiving gift from elderly widow. WEF GLT 2001
Richard Edelman	CEO of public relations company Edelman and on the board of the Atlantic Council
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan	Became President of Turkey in 2014
Robert Fisher	Bohemian Grovemember as of 2023 who attended some WEF annual meetings
Niall FitzGerald	CEO of Unilever 1996-2004. Trilateral Commission. Board member of the World Economic Forum.
Steve Forbes	Billionaire editor-in-chief of Forbes magazine.
Christoph Franz	Lufthansa CEO, One Bilderberg, called for mandation of COVID-19 vaccines in April 2021.
Jacob Frenkel	Serial WEF AGM, Bank of Israel/Governor 1991-2000, CFR, maybe the second most Jackson Hole visits in the world
Thomas Friedman	CFR, TLC, two Bilderbergs
Orit Gadiesh	One of the world's "100 most powerful women". Attended the 1997 and 1998 Bilderbergs. and a lot of WEF meetings
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