> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Global Leaders for Tomorrow - URL: https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/global-leaders-for-tomorrow/ - Published: 2026-08-28T16:17:00.000Z - Updated: 2026-08-28T16:22:40.000Z - Author: Liam Sturgess - Tags: Profiles, #docs, #organization, Organization, #toc, Switzerland, Non-Profit, Politics **Global Leaders for Tomorrow** was a leadership development program led by the [World Economic Forum](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/World-Economic-Forum). It was the predecessor to the [Forum of Young Global Leaders](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Forum-of-Young-Global-Leaders). ## History In 1992, [Klaus Schwab](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Klaus-Schwab) launched the Global Leaders for Tomorrow program under the auspices of the World Economic Forum.[\[1\]](#fn1)[\[2\]](#fn2) 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.[\[3\]](#fn3) 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.[\[4\]](#fn4) 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.[\[5\]](#fn5) 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.[\[6\]](#fn6)[\[7\]](#fn7) ## Participants **1993**[\[8\]](#fn8) - José Manuel Barroso - Tony Blair - Bono - Richard Branson - Edgar Bronfman - Gordon Brown - [Bill Gates](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Bill-Gates) - Joseph P. Kennedy II - Yo-Yo Ma - Angela Merkel - Viktor Orban - Nicolas Sarkozy - George Stephanopoulos - Lawrence Summers - David Thomson - Stephen Wolfram **1994**[\[9\]](#fn9) - [Afsaneh Beschloss](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Afsaneh-Beschloss) - Jean Charest - Sheila Copps - William Hague - Trevor Manuel - Grigory Yavlinsky **1995**[\[10\]](#fn10) - Paul Allen - Lynn Forester de Rothschild - Thomas Friedman - Paul Krugman - Jeffrey Sachs - Vasili Soldatov **1996**[\[11\]](#fn11) - Marc Andreessen - Evan Bayh - Ana Botín - Jamie Dimon - Jodie Foster **1997**[\[12\]](#fn12) - Felipe Calderón - Lachlan Murdoch - Ethan Nadelmann - Eric Schmidt - Timothy Shriver - Dmitry Toulin **1998**[\[13\]](#fn13) - Jeff Bezos - Craig Kielburger - William Lauder **1999**[\[14\]](#fn14) - [Scott Galloway](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Scott-Galloway) - Elisabeth Murdoch - Pierre Omidyar - Martin Werner **2000**[\[15\]](#fn15) - Jeff Arnold - Eric Brewer - Oleg Deripaska - [Chrystia Freeland](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Chrystia-Freeland) - Mehmet Oz **2001**[\[16\]](#fn16) - 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**[\[17\]](#fn17) - Roger Barnett - Marc Benioff - Tony Blevins - Clayton Cosgrove - Justin Forsyth - Hilde Johnson - Van Jones - Aerin Lauder - Carlos Lozada - Larry Page - Loung Ung **2003**[\[18\]](#fn18) - 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 - [Campfire Wiki (archived)](https://web.archive.org/web/20260201080231/https://www.campfire.wiki/doku.php?id=global%5Fleaders%5Ffor%5Ftomorrow) - [Wikispooks](https://wikispooks.com/wiki/WEF/Global%5FLeaders%5Ffor%5FTomorrow) --- 1. *A Partner in Shaping History.* (2010). World Economic Forum. [↩︎](#fnref1) 2. ISRAEL21c Staff. (2015, September 14). *Israeli joins Bill Gates and Tony Blair as one of 100 Global Leaders for Tomorrow.* ISRAEL21c. [↩︎](#fnref2) 3. The Last American Vagabond. (2021, August). *Richard Werner Interview - Covid Measures and the Central Controls over the Economy.* Super U. [↩︎](#fnref3) 4. Phoenix. (2020, January 17). *“Das Forum” (Bonus): Klaus Schwab trifft Costa Ricas Präsident Quesada.* YouTube. [↩︎](#fnref4) 5. 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. [↩︎](#fnref5) 6. Waggaman, R. (2021, November 8). *Myth vs. Reality in COVID Russia.* Anti-Empire. [↩︎](#fnref6) 7. Russia Briefing. (2021, January 28). *Russian President Putin’s Speech At The World Economic Forum: Complete English Translation.* Russia Briefing News. [↩︎](#fnref7) 8. *Class of 1993.* World Economic Forum. Retrieved December 27, 2021, from [↩︎](#fnref8) 9. *Class of 1994.* (1994). World Economic Forum. [↩︎](#fnref9) 10. *Class of 1995.* (1995). World Economic Forum. [↩︎](#fnref10) 11. *Class of 1996.* (1996). World Economic Forum. [↩︎](#fnref11) 12. *Class of 1997.* World Economic Forum. Retrieved January 11, 2022, from [↩︎](#fnref12) 13. *Class of 1998.* World Economic Forum. Retrieved January 11, 2022, from [↩︎](#fnref13) 14. *Class of 1999.* World Economic Forum. Retrieved January 11, 2022, from [↩︎](#fnref14) 15. *Class of 2000.* World Economic Forum. Retrieved March 19, 2013, from [↩︎](#fnref15) 16. *Class of 2001.* World Economic Forum. Retrieved September 15, 2014, from [↩︎](#fnref16) 17. *Class of 2002.* World Economic Forum. Retrieved July 23, 2012, from [↩︎](#fnref17) 18. *Class of Global Leaders for Tomorrow 2003 - Die Kandidaten im Überblick.* (2002, March 12). Handelsblatt. [↩︎](#fnref18)