WEF/Global Leaders for Tomorrow/1997

WEF/Global Leaders for Tomorrow/1997 (WEF/Global Leaders for Tomorrow)
Membership	• Steve R. Appleton • Rosalia Arteaga Serrano • Jocelyne Attal • Zdenek Bakala • Simon W. Barlow • Alessandro Benetton • Felipe Benjumea • Ernesto Bertarelli • Kumar M. Birla • Christian Bjelland • Peter Blom • Eduardo Bours • Gregory D. Brenneman • Paulo Sérgio C. Galvão Filho • Felipe Calderón • Daniel H. Case • Liz Chitiga • Chung Bo Keun • Chung Mong-Gyu • Peter Derby • Brian N. Dickie • Uwe Doerken • Bruno Ducharme • Amr Enany • Sebastián Escarrer Jaume • Richard Eyre • Renato Fassbind • Nicole Feely • David Filo • Joseph P. Firmage • Marek Goschorski • Isabelle Guichot • Andre Harrell • Emil Harsev • Anna K. Hejka-Arczynska • Robert A. Johnson • Hubert Joly • Shiv V. Khemka • Milton Kim Seok-Dong • Kim Sung-Joo • Harry Klagsbrun • Georg Kofler • Susanne Kohout • Jeffrey J. L. Koo • Harry Kraemer • Karen Ku • Lee Mie-Kyung • Chris B. Leptos • Carl A. Loo • Angel Losada Moreno • Daniel Lubetzky • Patrick Larragoiti Lucas • Wendy Luhabe • Kristaq Luniku • Michael Lynton • Sakumzi Macozoma • Pattie Maes • Ayisi Makatiani • Emma Marcegaglia • Vaclav Marhoul • Wynton Marsalis • Vladimir Masar • Gamal H. Mubarak • Lachlan Murdoch • Ethan A. Nadelmann • Jay Naidoo • Hussain J. Al Nowais • Josep Pique Camps • Vladimir Potanin • Alexey Pushkov • Anil Rai • Andreas Renschler • Alexander Romanovsky • Kenneth Roth • Emilia Roxas-Yang • Paul L. Saffo • Paul Sagan • Richard Sarnoff • Eric Schmidt • Ulrich Schumacher • Gonen Segev • Isaac O. Shongwe • Timothy P. Shriver • Marina Silva • András Simor • Nora R. Slatkin • Imre Somody • Patricia Q. Stonesifer • Gautam Thapar • Dmitry V. Toulin • Claudio Del Vecchio • Walter Veltroni • Antonio Manuel Vitorino • Francine Wachsstock • Daniel Wagner • Don J. Walker • Guido Westerwelle • Fields Wicker-Miurin • Richard C. L. Yan
WEF/Global Leaders for Tomorrow 1997

This page lists the known WEF/Global Leaders for Tomorrow of 1997. The previous year's cadre is listed at WEF/Global Leaders for Tomorrow/1996, the next as WEF/Global Leaders for Tomorrow/1998.

Exposure

The list of participants in the World Economic Forum's Global Leaders for Tomorrow program for the year 1997 has been pulled from their website, but possible to find in archived form. The WEF does not always publish all the names. The previous year's cadre is listed at WEF/Global Leaders for Tomorrow/1996, the next as WEF/Global Leaders for Tomorrow/1998.

Selected Examples

Influential deep state strategist Eric Schmidt worked for Alphabet (a.k.a Google)

• Emma Marcegaglia who later became head of the LUISS business school, formerly connected to the CIA and the Italian secret services.
• Vladimir Potanin - involved in the controversial loans-for-shares program in Russia in the early to mid-1990s, was the second wealthiest man in Russia in the 2020s
• Kenneth Roth has been the executive director of the front organization Human Rights Watch since 1993.
• Eric Schmidt is a US billionaire and deep politician who works for Alphabet (a.k.a Google).
• Patricia Q. Stonesifer is the former co-chair and founding chief executive officer of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, on the board of trustees of the Rockefeller Foundation, close to Amazon's Jeff Bezos, and connected to the billionaire network the Good Club.
• Guido Westerwelle was a German politician who was pushed out of politics in 2011 by the deep state after daring to oppose the war on Libya.

Premature death

Guido Westerwelle died in 2016, aged 54.

 

Known Participants

10 of the 99 of the participants already have pages here:

Participant	Description
Felipe Calderón	WEF/Global Leader for Tomorrow 1997. President of Mexico 2006-2012.
Ethan Nadelmann	Activist working to end the War on Drugs. Protege of George Soros. Selected a Global Leaders for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum in 1997.
Jay Naidoo	Anti-apartheid trade union leader, then Minister responsible for the Reconstruction and Development Programme in the first post-apartheid cabinet of President Nelson Mandela
Vladimir Potanin	Russian businessman. The 10th richest person in the world.
Kenneth Roth	US lawyer, serial WEF AGM visitor
Eric Schmidt	US billionaire who works for Alphabet (a.k.a Google). A 1997 WEF Global Leader for Tomorrow with numerous other deep political connections.
Marina Silva	WEF/Global Leaders for Tomorrow/1997. Brazil's Minister of the Environment and Climate Change in 2022.
Patty Stonesifer	Bill Gates crony
Walter Veltroni	Italian politician. His candidacy in the 2008 general elections obtained 33.17% of the votes, but failed to take the government.
Guido Westerwelle	Atlantik-Brücke, Bilderberg 2007, ousted after a media campaign. Died aged 54 of acute myeloid leukemia.