WEF/Young Global Leaders/2008
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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

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
16 of the 254 of the members already have pages here:
Member | Description |
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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 |
Anders Borg | Double Bilderberg Swedish Minister for Finance |
Thomas Buberl | German Bilderberg money manager |
Anderson Cooper | Primary anchor of the CNN. Notably softballed questions to Bill Gates in 2021. |
Leonardo DiCaprio | American actor and film producer. |
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". |
Ellana Lee | CNN senior executive. Council on Foreign Relations. World Economic Forum Young Global Leader. |
Ed Miliband | |
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 |
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 |