The World Economic Forum is chaired by Founder and Executive Chairman Professor Klaus Schwab. It is guided by its Board of Trustees, and managed by its Managing Board.
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The Managing Board, chaired by the Forum’s President, Børge Brende, acts as the executive body of the World Economic Forum. It ensures that activities fulfil the Forum’s mission and acts as its representative to outside parties.
The Managing Board has a collective executive responsibility for the Forum and reports to the Board of Trustees.
Børge Brende, President, World Economic Forum
Julien Gattoni, Managing Director, Chief Financial Officer, World Economic Forum
Jeremy Jurgens, Managing Director, World Economic Forum
Adrian Monck, Managing Director, World Economic Forum
Gim Huay Neo, Managing Director, World Economic Forum
Sarita Nayyar, Managing Director; Chief Operating Officer, USA, World Economic Forum
Olivier Schwab, Managing Director, World Economic Forum
Saadia Zahidi, Managing Director, World Economic Forum
Alois Zwinggi, Managing Director, World Economic Forum
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The Forum is guided by a Board of Trustees, exceptional individuals who act as guardians of its mission and values, which oversees the Forum’s work in promoting true global citizenship.
The Board of Trustees comprises outstanding leaders from business, politics, academia and civil society. In their work on the Board, members do not represent any personal or professional interests. To reflect the Board’s multistakeholder status, its membership is divided equally between representatives of the business community and leaders from international organizations and civil society.
Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum
Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, Vice-Chairman of the Board of Trustees, World Economic Forum
Mukesh D. Ambani, Chairman and Managing Director, Reliance Industries
Marc Benioff, Chair and Chief Executive Officer, Salesforce
Thomas Buberl, Chief Executive Officer, AXA
Mark Carney, United Nations Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance, United Nations
Laurence D. Fink, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, BlackRock
Chrystia Freeland, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Canada
Orit Gadiesh, Chairman, Bain & Company
Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Fabiola Gianotti, Director-General, European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)
Al Gore, Vice-President of the United States (1993- 2001); Chairman and Co-Founder, Generation Investment Management LLP
André Hoffmann, Chairman, Massellaz
Paula Ingabire, Minister of Information Communication Technology and Innovation of Rwanda
Joe Kaeser, Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Siemens Energy
Christine Lagarde, President, European Central Bank
Yo-Yo Ma, Cellist Peter Maurer, President, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
Luis Alberto Moreno, Managing Director, Allen & Company
Patrice Motsepe, Founder and Executive Chairman, African Rainbow Minerals
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director-General, World Trade Organization (WTO)
H.M. Queen Rania Al Abdullah of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
L. Rafael Reif, President, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
David M. Rubenstein, Co-Founder and Co-Chairman, Carlyle
Mark Schneider, Chief Executive Officer, Nestlé
Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Senior Minister, Government of Singapore
Jim Hagemann Snabe, Chairman, Siemens
Julie Sweet, Chair and Chief Executive Officer, Accenture
Feike Sybesma, Honorary Chairman, Royal DSM
Heizo Takenaka, Professor Emeritus, Keio University
Zhu Min, Chairman, National Institute of Financial Research