The Forum of Young Global Leaders (YGL) is a nominally independent nonprofit organization launched by Klaus Schwab in 2004.[1] It operates in association with the World Economic Forum, and serves as a successor to Henry Kissinger's International Seminar program.[2] It is described as the sister community to the Global Shapers Community.[3]
History
In 1992, Klaus Schwab launched the Global Leaders for Tomorrow program under the auspices of the World Economic Forum.[4][5] 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.[6]
Relaunch
In 2004, the Global Leaders for Tomorrow was relaunched as the Forum of Young Global Leaders with $1 million won through the Dan David Prize.[4:1][7] Klaus' daughter, Nicole Schwab, served as founding director of the new program.[8]
The inaugural summit of the Forum of Young Global Leaders took place from June 24-28, 2005 in Zermatt, Switzerland. Discussions at the summit "led [participants] to consider the probable state of the world in 2020" as part of the 2020 Initiative.[9] Among the primary points of discussion in the 2020 Initiative was “Communicable diseases, outbreaks and pandemics,” with the SARS-CoV-1 outbreak specifically mentioned.[10]
COVID-19
During the COVID-19 pandemic, a significant number of world leaders were former members of the Young Global Leaders program. This appears to have contributed to the apparent “lockstep” response to the crisis.[11]
Participants
2005
- Marc Benioff[12]
- Sergey Brin[12:1]
- Frederik André Henrik Christian[13]
- Niall Ferguson[13:1]
- Chrystia Freeland[13:2]
- Jack Ma[14]
- Sylvia Mathews[14:1]
- Gavin Newsom[15]
- Larry Page[16]
- Dina Powell[16:1]
- Samantha Power[16:2]
- Nathaniel Rothschild[17]
- Mikheil Saakashvili[18]
- Antonio Saca[18:1]
- Keith Schwab[18:2]
- Anthony Shriver[18:3]
- Jonathan Soros[18:4]
- William Steiger[18:5]
- David Webb[19]
2007
- Raju Narisetti[20]
2009[21]
- Stéphane Bancel
2014[22]
- Rania Al-Mashat
- Jacinda Ardern
- Daniella Ballou-Aares
- Hassan El-Houry
- Nina Jensen
- Renée Maria Tremblay
2016[23]
- Penny Abeywardena
- Sam Altman
- Eleni Antoniadou
- Christopher Ategeka
- Abayomi Awobokun
- Farida Bedwei
- Hina Butt
- Julie Chappell
- Umer Cheema
- Amal Clooney
- Leslie Dewan
- Nima Elbagir
- Nima Elmi
- Aria Finger
- Roland Fryer
- Sheng Fu
- Joe Gebbia Jr.
- Hannah Hopko
- Forsan Hussein
- Melanie Joly
- Ashton Kutcher
- Avid Larizadeh-Duggan
- Emmanuel Macron
- Seth Moulton
- James Mworia
- Ada Osakwe
- Zunaid Ahmed Palak
- Danae Ringelmann
- Juliana Rotich
- Wafa Sayadi
- Julia Shakhnovskaya
- Sheetal Amte-Karajgi
- Shivani Siroya
- Dhivya Suryadevara
- Hadia Tajik
- Nina Tandon
- Lila Tretikov
- Shu Wang
- Amira Yahyaoui
- Rebecca Yang Yuancao
- Julie Yoo
- Patrick Youssef
- Chih-Han Yu
- Farkhunda Zahra Naderi
2017[24]
- Miki Agrawal
- Shaharzad Akbar
- Omar Al-Madhi
- Samar Ali
- Lois Auta
- Terry Beech
- Dan Berelowitz
- Rwitwika Bhattacharya-Agarwal
- Aja Brown
- Sercan Celebi
- Abdourahmaro Cisse
- Matthew Corrin
- Molly Crockett
- Pavel Durov
- Rana El Kaliouby
- Mouhamed Mustapha Fall
- Nili Gilbert
- Chido Govera
- Mona Hammami
- Brad Henderson
- Katie Hill
- Christine Hsu
- Lydie Hudson
- Ramzi Jaber
- Ankur Jain
- Shira Kaplan
- Neema Kaseje
- Adam Kinzinger
- Jess Lee
- Naisula Lesuuda
- Brie Loskota
- Mmusi Aloysias Maimane
- Nadeen Matthews
- Maria Soledad Nuñez Mendez
- Mike Moradi
- Maxim Oreshkin
- Sputniko Ozaki
- Yuefei Qin
- Sheila Redzepi
- Reihan Salam
- Edward Santow
- Hindol Sengupta
- Stav Shaffir
- Navrina Singh
- Richard Socher
- Aarti Takoordeen
- Graves Tompkins
- Luhan Yang
- Farzana Yaqoob
- Feng Zhang
2019
- Katherine Maher[25]
2020[26]
- Mei Mei Hu
2022
Partners
YGL is partnered with the Global Shapers Community, another initiative of the World Economic Forum.[28]
External links
Martinet, S. (2011, March 9). Mashable CEO Pete Cashmore Earns World Economic Forum’s Leadership Award. Mashable. http://archive.today/2022.01.25-185813/https://mashable.com/archive/pete-cashmore-young-global-leader-2 ↩︎
Vedmore, J. (2022, August 30). The Kissinger Continuum: The Unauthorized History of the WEF’s Young Global Leaders Program. Based Underground. https://web.archive.org/web/20221103021506/https://basedunderground.com/2022/08/29/the-kissinger-continuum-the-unauthorized-history-of-the-wefs-young-global-leaders-program/ ↩︎
Schwab, K., & Hamza, W. A. (2021). Global Shapers Community Annual Report 2020–2021. Box; World Economic Forum. https://weforum.ent.box.com/v/gsc-annual-report-20-21 ↩︎
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/ ↩︎
Nadis, S. (2009). Next–Generation Leadership. Harvard Kennedy School. https://web.archive.org/web/20090907022046/https://www.hks.harvard.edu/news-events/publications/harvard-kennedy-school-magazine/archives/summer-2009/next-generation-leadership ↩︎
Nicole Schwab - Agenda Contributor. World Economic Forum. Retrieved August 1, 2023, from http://archive.today/2023.08.01-114204/https://www.weforum.org/agenda/authors/nicole-schwab ↩︎
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Health in 2020. The Forum of Young Global Leaders. Retrieved October 29, 2005, from http://archive.today/2005.10.29-192713/http://www.younggloballeaders.org/scripts/page8087.html ↩︎
Hidden Alliance of former WEF Young Global Leaders working in Lockstep to enforce the Great Reset include Macron, Trudeau, Ardern, & Boris Johnson. (2022, January 27). The Exposé. https://web.archive.org/web/20220201015353/https://dailyexpose.uk/2022/01/27/great-reset-wef-young-global-leaders-trudeau-macron-ardern-boris/ ↩︎
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Raju Narisetti. Wikimedia Foundation. Retrieved August 27, 2024, from https://web.archive.org/web/20240827231937/https://wikimediafoundation.org/profile/raju-narisetti/ ↩︎
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YGL Class of 2014 Graduation. Forum of Young Global Leaders. Retrieved November 4, 2019, from https://web.archive.org/web/20191104064530/https://www.younggloballeaders.org/ygl-class-of-2014-graduation ↩︎
Meet the Young, Tech-Savvy, Civic-Minded Innovators Driving The Fourth Industrial Revolution. (2016, March 16). World Economic Forum. https://web.archive.org/web/20160320131716/http://www.weforum.org/press/2016/03/meet-the-young-innovators-driving-fourth-industrial-revolution ↩︎
Young Global Leaders Class of 2017. World Economic Forum. Retrieved June 29, 2017, from https://web.archive.org/web/20170629170213/http://widgets.weforum.org/ygl-2017/ ↩︎
Levin, M. (2019, March 12). Meet the 2019 Class of Young Global Leaders. World Economic Forum. https://web.archive.org/web/20240901200856/https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/03/connecting-the-most-outstanding-young-leaders/ ↩︎
Levin, M. (2020, March 11). Meet the young leaders set to shape 2020. World Economic Forum. http://archive.today/2023.02.28-125649/https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/03/ygl-wef-young-global-leaders/ ↩︎
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