WEF/Young Global Leaders/2008

WEF/Young Global Leaders/2008
(WEF/Young Global Leaders)
WEF/Young Global Leaders/2008; (WEF/Young Global Leaders)
	A 2008 article naming some members of YGL/2008 including Elon Musk
Abbreviation	YGL/2008
Membership	• Laurer Alber; • Laura Alfaro; • Vikram K. Akula; • Omar K. Alghanim; • Wilmot Allen; • Nasser Alshaali; • Mehdi Amjad; • Eric Anderson; • Kirill Androsov; • Neil Ashe; • Susan Athey; • Kongpan Pramojna Ayudhaya; • John R. Baird; • Makarem Batterjee; • Anurag Behar; • Sabeer Bhtia; • Zhong Biao; • Marcela Bilek; • Shen Bing; • Cristina Bitar; • Yannick Bolloré; • Henrik Borelius; • Anders Borg; • Demetrios Boutris; • Thomas Buberl; • Charles Butterworth; • Luis Camargo; • Gustavo Cardoso; • Merieme Chadid; • Paul Chan; • Sarah Chang; • Charles Chao; • Diana C. Chen; • Adrian D. Cheok; • Axel Christensen; • Juliana L. Chugg; • Cameron Clyne; • Arturo Condo; • Anderson Cooper; • Yolanda Cuba; • Björn Czinczoll; • John Bul Dau; • Artur Davis; • Geoff Davis; • Illac Diaz; • Leonardo DiCaprio; • Chang Dingjie; • Kuseni Douglas Dlamini; • Juan Domingo; • D. F. Dong; • Wei Dong; • Zhang Donghai; • Barkha Dutt; • Jennifer Elliseef; • Mohamed Elkeiy; • Theodore Ernest Els; • Jesus Encinar; • Soren Eriksen; • Francis Joseph Guevara Escudero; • Darys Estrella; • André Esteves; • Alejandro Ferrer; • Carola Ferstl; • Betsy Fischer; • William Foote; • Andy Freire; • Norika Fujiwara; • Jitesh Gadhia; • Ábel Garamhegyi; • Luca Garavoglia; • Karien van Gennip; • Jared Genser; • Pierre Gentin; • Omar Ghanim; • Bahman Ghobadi; • Ayla Göksel Göçer; • Zac Goldsmith; • Suhas Gopinath; • Steffi Graf; • Ferial Haffajee; • Mia Hamm; • Kate Hampton; • Stephanie Pullings Hart; • Roy C. Harvey; • Parinda Hasdarngkul; • Mohammed Ali Al Hashimi; • Yusuke Hatori; • Gazmend Haxhia; • Lars Hinrichs; • Alan Hippe; • Brendan Hoffman; • Christopher Cooper Hohn; • Kurt Holle; • Zhou Hongyi; • Rodney E. Hood; • Akihiko Hoshide; • Sara Hossain; • Caroline Hoxby; • Se-hong Hur; • Christina Hvid; • Munizae Jahangir; • Carlos Añaños Jeri; • Bobby Jindal; • David Jones (WEF); • Michael Jordaan; • Rula Jebreal; • Michael Ma Jun; • Zhu Jun; • Joseph Kabila; • Deborah Kan; • Kola Karim; • Dennis Karpes; • Naomi Kawase; • Wadah Khanfar; • Hina Rabbani Khar; • Dara Khosrowshahi; • Mugo Kibati; • Jin Kim; • Ju-ha Kim; • Mattias Klum; • Andriy Kolodyuk; • Jonathan Korngold; • Melanie Kreis-Wilczak; • Tariq Krim; • Lisa Kropman; • Umit Kumcuoglu; • Kristine Layfield; • Artemij Lebedev; • Tristan Lecomte; • Ellana Lee; • Beckmann Legorreta; • Achankeng Leke; • Thomas T. Lembong; • Mark Leonard; • Yiyun Li; • Lei Liang; • Xiangjun Liu; • Liz Lloyd; • Martin Lousteau; • Ivo Lukacovic; • Muhammad Lutfi; • C. V. Madhukar; • Tumi Makgabo; • Hideki Makihara; • Hamdan Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum; • Somaly Mam; • Ricardo Villela Marino; • Alfonso Marquez de la Plata; • David Martinon; • Laura Alfaro Maykal; • Aaron McCormac; • Shakira Mebarak; • Rodrigo Hübner Mendes; • Ed Miliband; • John Mollanger; • 40px Khaldoon Al Mubarak; • Elizabeth Murdoch; • Jamie Mitchell; • Koichi Mizutome; • Carlos Loret de Mola; • Kimberly Moore; • David Munro; • Elon Musk; • Andrew Mwenda; • Ahmad Nader Nadery; • Tomoaki Nigo Nagao; • Gabriel Naouri; • Nicole Nason; • Taku Otsuka; • Juan Carlos Ortiz; • Murat Özyegin; • Sandeep Parekh; • Michelle A. Peluso; • Aaron Pereira; • Jeremy Philips; • Sunette Pienaar-Steyn; • Sachin Pilot; • Apollonia Poilâne; • Lydia Polgreen; • Nikolay Pryanishnikov; • Ratul Puri; • Meher Pudumjee; • Adam H. Putnam; • Charles Huang Qin; • Allah Rakha Rahman; • Allon Raiz; • Patrick Ramsey; • Aashmi Rajya Lakshmi Rana; • Daniel Rimer; • David Frederik von Rosen-von Hoewel; • Ewa Sadowska; • Hur Saehon; • Enric Sala; • Lalla Salma; • Soraya Salti; • Andrea Sanke; • Trilochan Sastry; • Teruhide Sato; • David Schmutzler; • Severin Schwan; • Nasser Al Shaali; • Anoushka Shankar; • Daniel Shapiro; • Pooja Shetty; • Liu Shichun; • James Shikwati; • Joseph Sigelman; • Cameron Sinclair; • Pia Singh; • David Skilling; • Hou Songrong; • Rob Speyer; • Jasmin Staiblin; • Kirstine Stewart; • Rory Stewart; • Anu Tali; • Emil Tedeschi; • Eira Thomas; • Natalie Du Toit; • Cayetana Alvarez de Toledo; • Kiyohiko Toyama; • Kyriakos Tsakopoulos; • Francesco Vezzoli; • Christophe Villemin; • Karim Wade; • Jeh Wadia; • Li Wai-yee; • Kara Walker; • George Walker; • Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuck; • Hines Ward; • Casey Wasserman; • Risa Wataya; • Luo Weibing; • Lu Weiding; • Wang Weixian; • Mark Weldon; • Gong Wen; • Alejandro Werner; • Mark Williams; • Michelle M. Wu; • Li Xiangqian; • Su Xianze; • Peng Xiaofeng; • Chen Xiaowei; • Li Xinhai; • Liang Xinjun; • Rama Yade; • Eriko Yamaguchi; • Leng You-bin; • Fernando Zavala; • David Zhang; • Xin Zhou; • Paul van Zyl
	WEF's Young Global Leaders for 2008

These are the known WEF/Young Global Leaders for 2008^[1] The WEF doesn't always publish all the names of the candidates. The previous year's cadre is listed as WEF/Young Global Leaders 2007, the following as WEF/Young Global Leaders 2009.

Some of the names are drawn from this (unverified) PDF found in May 2022^[2].

Selected Examples

File:Rory Stewart.jpg

Rory Stewart, named as MI6, was Chair of the very important international deep state/intelligence group Le Cercle from 2013-2015.

Kirill Androsov 2008-2010 Deputy chief of staff to then (Prime Minister) Vladimir Putin^[3]. Since 2015 managing partner of Altera Capital, a Moscow-based investment firm.
Susan Athey, of the 2013 Bilderberg, is the Economics of Technology Professor at Stanford Graduate School of Business
Yannick Bolloré son of French media tycoon Vincent Bolloré who himself participated in 1993.
Thomas Buberl is a money manager who attended the 2017 and 2019 Bilderbergs
Ellana Lee is Senior Vice President & Managing Editor, Asia Pacific, for CNN International.
Lars Hinrichs, German businessman. “Without my [Young Global Leaders network] I would be nothing”
Mark Leonard founded the European Council on Foreign Relations on behalf of George Soros.
Elon Musk
Rory Stewart, named as MI6, was Chair of the international deep state/intelligence group Le Cercle from 2013-2015.
Nikolay Pryanishnikov President of Microsoft Russia until circa 2015.

Known members

30 of the 254 of the members already have pages here:

Member	Description
Laura Alfaro	WEF YGL 2008 politician and economist who started attending Jackson Hole Symposia in 2023
Kirill Androsov	Russian financier, businessman, YGL, 2008-2010 Deputy chief of staff to Vladimir Putin
Susan Athey	US economist, one time Bilderberger
Makarem Batterjee	Saudi YGL businessman who worked with the Saudi government on COVID-19 as president of the Saudi German Hospitals Group
Yannick Bolloré	Second generation WEF GLT/YGL
Anders Borg	Double Bilderberg Swedish Minister for Finance
Thomas Buberl	German poly-Bilderberg money manager, WEF AGMs, WEF YGL 2008
Anderson Cooper	Intern for the CIA who was selected primary anchor of CNN. Notably softballed questions to Bill Gates in 2021.
Leonardo DiCaprio	American actor and film producer.
André Esteves	Brazilian billionaire, WEF YGL 2008, WEF AGMs
Jared Genser	WEF/YGL and spooky international "human rights lawyer".
Zac Goldsmith	UK YGL 2008 politician, brother of Ben Goldsmith (YGL 2010)
Lars Hinrichs	German entrepreneur and WEF Young Global Leader 2008. "Without networks I would be nothing".
Joseph Kabila	Congolese politician
Wadah Khanfar	Spooky WEF YGL 2008 member of the International Crisis Group
Hina Rabbani Khar	WEF YGL 2008 Pakistani politician
Dara Khosrowshahi	Iranian and American business executive who as of 2025 is the chief executive officer of Uber
Ellana Lee	CNN senior executive. Council on Foreign Relations. World Economic Forum Young Global Leader.
Mark Leonard	Suspected UK DSO who founded the European Council on Foreign Relations. A regular the the Brussels Forum, MSC, WEF AGM. Authored Britain™: Renewing our Identity
Tumi Makgabo	South African TV presenter WEF YGL 2008
Ed Miliband	UK/Leader of the Opposition 2010-2015, WEF YGL 2008
Khaldoon Al Mubarak	Emirati politician and businessman who attended WEF Annual meetings
Elizabeth Murdoch	Daughter of media mogul and deep state operative Rupert Murdoch.
Elon Musk	US businessman, Paypal Mafia underboss, big tech kingpin, WEF YGL billionaire
Severin Schwan	CEO of the Big Pharma Roche Group 2008-2023, then Chairman.
Daniel Shapiro	US ambassador to Israel, but flew from Tel Aviv to New York on Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's own aircraft
Rory Stewart	MI6, Cercle, Bilderberg, UK DSO, Politician
Anu Tali	Estonian conductor who was selected a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2008.
Karim Wade	WEF/YGL and "a good friend" of Jeffrey Epstein.
Murat Özyeğin	Attended the Bilderberg in 2025 as vice president of the Turkish Industry and Business Association. Second-generation member of one of the wealthiest families of Turkey.

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References

[1] ttps://web.archive.org/web/20120806113309if_/http://www.weforum.org/community/forum-young-global-leaders

[2] ttp://specials.rediff.com/money/2008/mar/11young.pdf

[3] ttps://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/oct/03/offshore-provider-accused-of-failing-to-follow-money-laundering-rules

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