Founded in 1970, originally called the Davos Symposium. Renamed in 1987.
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Josef Ackermann |
Business |
7-Feb-1948 |
|
CEO of Deutsche Bank |
| Shai Agassi |
Business |
1968 |
|
Former executive, SAP |
| G. Allen Andreas |
Business |
22-Jun-1943 |
|
CEO of Archer Daniels Midland, 1999-2006 |
| Kofi Annan |
Government |
8-Apr-1938 |
|
Secretary General of the UN, 1997-2006 |
| Michael Arrington |
Business |
13-Mar-1970 |
|
TechCrunch |
| Richard C. Bartlett |
Business |
c. 1935 |
|
Mary Kay Corporation |
| Tony Blair |
Head of State |
6-May-1953 |
|
UK Prime Minister, 1997-2007 |
| Alan L. Boeckmann |
Business |
1948 |
|
CEO of Fluor |
| Philippe Bourguignon |
Business |
1948 |
|
Revolution Resorts |
| Peter Brabeck-Letmathe |
Business |
13-Nov-1944 |
|
CEO of Nestle, 1997-2008 |
| John H. Bryan |
Business |
5-Oct-1936 |
|
CEO of Sara Lee, 1975-2000 |
| George L. Carey |
Religion |
13-Nov-1935 |
|
Archbishop of Canterbury, 1991-2002 |
| Paulo Coelho |
Novelist |
24-Aug-1947 |
|
The Alchemist |
| Jill M. Considine |
Business |
c. 1944 |
|
Chairman of Depository Trust Company, 1998-2006 |
| James E. Copeland, Jr. |
Business |
c. 1945 |
|
CEO of Deloitte & Touche, 1999-2003 |
| Flavio Cotti |
Politician |
18-Oct-1939 |
|
Swiss Federal Councillor, 1986-99 |
| Paul Davies |
Physicist |
22-Apr-1946 |
|
The Mind of God |
| Ian Davis |
Business |
c. 1951 |
|
Managing Partner of McKinsey & Co. |
| Michael Dell |
Business |
23-Feb-1965 |
|
Founder of Dell Computer |
| Samuel A. DiPiazza, Jr. |
Business |
c. 1951 |
|
Vice Chairman, Pricewaterhouse Coopers |
| Esther Dyson |
Business |
14-Jul-1951 |
|
EDventure Holdings, former ICANN director |
| Niall FitzGerald |
Business |
13-Sep-1945 |
|
Chairman of Reuters |
| Justin Fox |
Author |
28-Jan-1964 |
|
The Myth of the Rational Market |
| Jeffrey A. Frankel |
Economist |
5-Nov-1952 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1997-99 |
| Michael T. Fries |
Business |
6-Feb-1963 |
|
CEO of Liberty Global |
| Mark P. Frissora |
Business |
c. 1956 |
|
CEO of The Hertz Corporation |
| Scott Galloway |
Business |
c. 1965 |
|
Firebrand Partners LLC |
| Richard N. Gardner |
Diplomat |
9-Jul-1927 |
|
US Ambassador to Spain, 1993-97 |
| William W. George |
Business |
14-Sep-1942 |
|
CEO of Medtronic, 1991-2001 |
| Carlos Ghosn |
Business |
9-Mar-1954 |
|
CEO of Nissan and Renault |
| Thomas H. Glocer |
Business |
8-Oct-1959 |
|
CEO of Thomson Reuters |
| Jack M. Greenberg |
Business |
1942 |
|
CEO of McDonald's, 1998-2002 |
| Rajat K. Gupta |
Business |
2-Dec-1948 |
|
Managing Partner of McKinsey, 1994-2003 |
| Richard Haass |
Government |
28-Jul-1951 |
|
President, Council on Foreign Relations |
| Susan Hockfield |
Educator |
24-Mar-1951 |
|
President of MIT |
| Reid Hoffman |
Business |
5-Aug-1967 |
|
Co-Founder of LinkedIn |
| Chad Hurley |
Business |
1977 |
|
Co-Founder of YouTube |
| Hubert Joly |
Business |
c. 1960 |
|
CEO of Best Buy |
| Abdallah Jumah |
Business |
1941 |
|
President and CEO of ARAMCO |
| Jim Kolbe |
Politician |
28-Jun-1942 |
|
Congressman from Arizona, 1985-2007 |
| Robert Kotick |
Business |
c. 1963 |
|
CEO of Activision |
| Alan Larson |
Diplomat |
c. 1949 |
|
Under Secy. of State for Economics, 1999-2005 |
| Maurice Lévy |
Business |
18-Feb-1942 |
|
CEO of Publicis |
| Timothy M. Manganello |
Business |
c. 1950 |
|
CEO of BorgWarner |
| Michael McFaul |
Diplomat |
1-Oct-1963 |
|
US Ambassador to Russia |
| Henry A. McKinnell, Jr. |
Business |
23-Feb-1943 |
|
CEO of Pfizer, 2001-06 |
| Jon Meacham |
Journalist |
20-May-1969 |
|
Managing Editor of Newsweek, 1998-2010 |
| Lakshmi Mittal |
Business |
15-Jun-1950 |
|
World's richest non-American |
| Marilyn Carlson Nelson |
Business |
c. 1939 |
|
CEO of Carlson Companies, 1998-2008 |
| Gavin Newsom |
Politician |
10-Oct-1967 |
|
Lt. Governor of California |
| Dean R. O'Hare |
Business |
c. 1941 |
|
CEO of Chubb, 1988-2002 |
| David J. O'Reilly |
Business |
1947 |
|
CEO of Chevron, 2005-09 |
| Lubna Olayan |
Business |
1955 |
|
Prominent Saudi businesswoman |
| Sean Parker |
Business |
3-Dec-1979 |
|
Napster, Facebook millionaire |
| William G. Parrett |
Business |
c. 1945 |
|
CEO of Deloitte Touche Tomatsu, 2003-07 |
| Michael Patsalos-Fox |
Business |
c. 1953 |
|
Chairman for the Americas, McKinsey & Co. |
| Victor Pinchuk |
Business |
14-Dec-1960 |
|
Billionaire, Interpipe Corporation |
| Queen Rania |
Royalty |
31-Aug-1970 |
|
Queen of Jordan |
| Kenneth S. Rogoff |
Economist |
22-Mar-1953 |
|
Harvard economist |
| Jean-Pierre Rosso |
Business |
11-Jul-1940 |
|
CEO of Case Corporation, 1994-99 |
| Paul Sagan |
Business |
c. 1959 |
|
CEO of Akamai |
| Sheryl Sandberg |
Business |
28-Aug-1969 |
|
COO of Facebook |
| Orville Schell |
Author |
20-May-1940 |
|
Prominent sinologist |
| James J. Schiro |
Business |
2-Jan-1946 |
13-Aug-2014 |
CEO of Zurich Financial Services, 2002-09 |
| Klaus Schwab |
Economist |
30-Mar-1938 |
|
Founder, World Economic Forum |
| George Shaheen |
Business |
11-Jul-1944 |
|
CEO of Andersen Consulting, 1989-99 |
| Gene Sperling |
Economist |
24-Dec-1958 |
|
Chief Economic Advisor, 1996-2000 |
| Michael R. Splinter |
Business |
c. 1950 |
|
CEO of Applied Materials |
| Thomas A. Stewart |
Editor |
c. 1948 |
|
Editor, Harvard Business Review |
| Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. |
Publisher |
22-Sep-1951 |
|
New York Times Publisher |
| Peter Sutherland |
Government |
25-Apr-1946 |
|
First Director General of the WTO |
| Edward Suning Tian |
Business |
c. 1964 |
|
China Broadband Capital Partners |
| Solomon D. Trujillo |
Business |
17-Nov-1951 |
|
CEO of Telstra |
| Jimbo Wales |
Encyclopaedist |
8-Aug-1966 |
|
Co-Founder of Wikipedia |
| C. John Wilder |
Business |
c. 1958 |
|
CEO of TXU, 2004-07 |
| Edward O. Wilson |
Biologist |
10-Jun-1929 |
|
Father of Sociobiology |
| Ernesto Zedillo |
Head of State |
27-Dec-1951 |
|
President of Mexico, 1994-2000 |
