¶ Global Leaders for Tomorrow
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Global Leaders for Tomorrow was a leadership development program led by the World Economic Forum. It was the predecessor to the Forum of Young Global Leaders.
¶ History
In 1992, Klaus Schwab launched the Global Leaders for Tomorrow program under the auspices of the World Economic Forum.[1][2]
This first iteration was shut down after the class of 2003. According to economist Richard Werner, who was selected in 2003, the program was closed down and rebooted as a more controllable group because there started to be too many people asking difficult questions in the forum.[3]
In a 2019 talk with Carlos Alvarado Quesada, Klaus Schwab mentioned that Vladimir Putin had participated in the Young Leader program, presumably during his St. Petersburg years in the 1990s.[4] While this is not completely confirmed from other sources, further evidence continues to emerge suggesting this is the case. Another video emerged of Schwab naming Putin among a list of other world leaders including Angela Merkel and Justin Trudeau, while speaking at the John F. Kennedy School of Government in 2017.[5]
In January 2021, Putin presented a keynote address at the World Economic Forum, where he recalled how he first met Schwab in 1992 and since then had regularly attended events organized by the WEF.[6][7]
¶ Participants
1993[8]
- José Manuel Barroso
- Tony Blair
- Bono
- Richard Branson
- Edgar Bronfman
- Gordon Brown
- Bill Gates
- Joseph P. Kennedy II
- Yo-Yo Ma
- Angela Merkel
- Viktor Orban
- Nicolas Sarkozy
- George Stephanopoulos
- Lawrence Summers
- David Thomson
- Stephen Wolfram
1994[9]
- Afsaneh Beschloss
- Jean Charest
- Sheila Copps
- William Hague
- Trevor Manuel
- Grigory Yavlinsky
1995[10]
- Paul Allen
- Lynn Forester de Rothschild
- Thomas Friedman
- Paul Krugman
- Jeffrey Sachs
- Vasili Soldatov
1996[11]
- Marc Andreessen
- Evan Bayh
- Ana Botín
- Jamie Dimon
- Jodie Foster
1997[12]
- Felipe Calderón
- Lachlan Murdoch
- Ethan Nadelmann
- Eric Schmidt
- Timothy Shriver
- Dmitry Toulin
1998[13]
- Jeff Bezos
- Craig Kielburger
- William Lauder
1999[14]
- Scott Galloway
- Elisabeth Murdoch
- Pierre Omidyar
- Martin Werner
2000[15]
- Jeff Arnold
- Eric Brewer
- Oleg Deripaska
- Chrystia Freeland
- Mehmet Oz
2001[16]
- John Battelle
- Bill Browder
- Yvette Cooper
- Victoria Ingrid Alice Désirée (Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden)
- Mark Fields
- Ted Halstead
- Mellody Hobson
- Jack Ma
- Melanie Marshall
- Anthony Venus
- Fareed Zakaria
2002[17]
- Roger Barnett
- Marc Benioff
- Tony Blevins
- Clayton Cosgrove
- Justin Forsyth
- Hilde Johnson
- Van Jones
- Aerin Lauder
- Carlos Lozada
- Larry Page
- Loung Ung
2003[18]
- Lance Armstrong
- Vikram Chandra
- Vladimir Chernukhin
- Carina Dennis
- Kristin Forbes
- Eva Harris
- Kathleen Houlihan
- Greg Hunt
- Larissa Joy
- Srivatsa Krishna
- Sylvia Matthews
- Paul Meyer
- Samantha Power
- Richard Werner
- Jeff Zients
- Ethan Zuckerman
¶ External links
A Partner in Shaping History. (2010). World Economic Forum. https://web.archive.org/web/20230821064210/https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_First40Years_Book_2010.pdf ↩︎
ISRAEL21c Staff. (2015, September 14). Israeli joins Bill Gates and Tony Blair as one of 100 Global Leaders for Tomorrow. ISRAEL21c. https://web.archive.org/web/20150914181822/http://www.israel21c.org/israeli-joins-bill-gates-and-tony-blair-as-one-of-100-global-leaders-for-tomorrow/ ↩︎
The Last American Vagabond. (2021, August). Richard Werner Interview - Covid Measures and the Central Controls over the Economy. Super U. https://web.archive.org/web/20220628054118/https://superu.net/video/926eb21f-fa07-4f56-bb47-dd9d0f5f197e/ ↩︎
Phoenix. (2020, January 17). “Das Forum” (Bonus): Klaus Schwab trifft Costa Ricas Präsident Quesada. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0pMGflp3aE&t=79s ↩︎
Maajid أبو عمّار (@MaajidNawaz). (2022, January 25). Head of the World Economic Forum Klaus Schwab at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government in 2017: “What we are very proud of, is that we penetrate the global cabinets of countries with our WEF Young Global Leaders… like Trudeau” [Tweet]. Twitter. http://archive.today/2022.01.25-191602/https://twitter.com/MaajidNawaz/status/1485982015048622090?s=20 ↩︎
Waggaman, R. (2021, November 8). Myth vs. Reality in COVID Russia. Anti-Empire. http://archive.today/2021.12.27-192636/https://anti-empire.com/myth-vs-reality-in-covid-russia/ ↩︎
Russia Briefing. (2021, January 28). Russian President Putin’s Speech At The World Economic Forum: Complete English Translation. Russia Briefing News. http://archive.today/2022.03.28-030420/https://www.russia-briefing.com/news/russian-president-putin-s-speech-at-the-world-economic-forum-complete-english-translation.html/ ↩︎
Class of 1993. World Economic Forum. Retrieved December 27, 2021, from https://web.archive.org/web/20131203013754/http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GLT_ClassOf1993.pdf ↩︎
Class of 1994. (1994). World Economic Forum. https://web.archive.org/web/20160816174540/http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GLT_ClassOf1994.pdf ↩︎
Class of 1995. (1995). World Economic Forum. https://web.archive.org/web/20140915002450/http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GLT_ClassOf1995.pdf ↩︎
Class of 1996. (1996). World Economic Forum. https://web.archive.org/web/20140915000416/http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GLT_ClassOf1996.pdf ↩︎
Class of 1997. World Economic Forum. Retrieved January 11, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20140914231237/http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GLT_ClassOf1997.pdf ↩︎
Class of 1998. World Economic Forum. Retrieved January 11, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20140914230101/http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GLT_ClassOf1998.pdf ↩︎
Class of 1999. World Economic Forum. Retrieved January 11, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20140914233005/http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GLT_ClassOf1999.pdf ↩︎
Class of 2000. World Economic Forum. Retrieved March 19, 2013, from https://web.archive.org/web/20130319042241/http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GLT_ClassOf2000.pdf ↩︎
Class of 2001. World Economic Forum. Retrieved September 15, 2014, from https://web.archive.org/web/20140915001916/http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GLT_ClassOf2001.pdf ↩︎
Class of 2002. World Economic Forum. Retrieved July 23, 2012, from https://web.archive.org/web/20120723153114/http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GLT_ClassOf2002.pdf ↩︎
Class of Global Leaders for Tomorrow 2003 - Die Kandidaten im Überblick. (2002, March 12). Handelsblatt. http://archive.today/2021.08.31-075242/https://www.handelsblatt.com/archiv/class-of-global-leaders-for-tomorrow-2003-die-kandidaten-im-ueberblick/2213220.html?ticket=ST-2682057-NcHgbyuAHv6pBRK5RJIG-ap3 ↩︎