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The WEF Young Global Leaders
The World Economic Forum has been running, since 1993, a program called Global Leaders for Tomorrow, rebranded, in 2005, as Young Global Leaders. This program aims at identifying, selecting and promoting future global leaders in both business and politics. Indeed, quite a few Young Global Leaders have later managed to become Presidents, Prime Ministers, or CEOs (see below). In a 2017 speech, WEF founder Klaus Schwab described this process as “penetrating the Cabinets”.
Young Global Leaders
There follows an overview of WEF Young Global Leaders (2005-2023) and Global Leaders for Tomorrow (1993-2003) in politics and the media. The list may not be exhaustive.
Canada
In a 2017 speech, WEF founder Klaus Schwab
mentioned Canada as an example of how the WEF “penetrated the Cabinets” and said that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and “more than half of his Cabinet” were Young Global Leaders, but this appears to have been an exaggeration.
Justin Trudeau has been a
WEF keynote speaker, but he is not a confirmed Young Global Leader. Confirmed Young Global Leaders in his Cabinets since 2015 include Deputy PM
Chrystia Freeland (selected in 2001; former managing director of Reuters and a
member of the WEF Board of Trustees), Minister of Foreign Affairs
Mélanie Joly (2016), President of the Treasury Board
Scott Brison (2005), Minister of Immigration
Sean Fraser (2022), and Government House Leader
Karina Gould (2019).
Other Cabinet members were speakers at the annual WEF meeting in Davos.
Mark Carney,
former Governor of the Bank of Canada, is a member of the WEF Board of Trustees.
An overview of WEF Young Global Leaders in politics and the media.
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