WEF/Young Global Leaders/2021

WEF/Young Global Leaders/2021
Membership	•  Tendayi Achiume •  Daniel Ahn •  Peter Biar Ajak •  Anulika Ajufo •  Esraa Al-Buti •  Erica Alessandri •  Mohamed Al Hashemi •  Suren Aloyan •  Elham Al Qasim •  Alanoud Bint Hamad Al Thani •  Nathalia Arcuri •  Aditi Avasthi •  Shiho Azuma •  Maleeka Bokhari •  Srikanth Bolla •  Christoph Bornschein •  Andrew Bragg •  Sinéad Burke •  Adriana Cargill •  Luis Felipe Cervantes Legorreta •  Matthew Chamberlain •  Arvan Chan •  Nirvana Chaudhary •  Francesca Chia •  Alexis Crow •  Thomas Crowther •  Rose Damen •  Vera Daves de Sousa •  Alberto de Belaunde •  Alexander de Carvalho •  Anne-Laure de Chammard •  Sangu Delle •  Amélie de Montchalin •  Abasi Ene-Obong •  El Seed Faouzi •  Fawaz Farooqui •  Cristina Fonseca •  Laure Forgeron •  Jocelyn Formsma •  Laura Gersch •  Garlin Gilchrist II •  Pierre-Dimitri Gore-Coty •  Megan Greenfield •  Andrey A. Guryev •  Martín Guzmán •  He Zhengyu •  Dalal Saeb Iriqat •  Jessica Jackson •  Dana Juffa •  Nari Kahle •  Gazal Kalra •  Gadeer Kamal-Mreeh •  Brian Kaufmann •  Conrod Kelly •  Ibram X Kendi •  Shreevar Kheruka •  Sophie Seula Kim •  Terrence Kommal •  Sanae Lahlou •  Seung Gun Lee •  Catherine Lenson •  Yifan Li •  Li Ni •  Haley Lowry •  Lu Chaoyang •  Luiza Mattos •  Jessica Mauboy •  Lukas Nelson •  Wawira Njiru •  Mohammad Salem Omaid •  Adriana Ortiz •  Obi Ozor •  Burcu Ozturk •  Amit Paley •  Roberto Patiño •  Gregoire Pictet •  Ameya Prabhu •  Zhuang Qian •  Kira Radinsky •  Rohan Ramakrishnan •  Hriday Ravindranath •  Paul Rivera •  Kishin RK •  Anneliese Schulz •  Emily Serazin •  Izkia Siches •  Virginijus Sinkevicius •  Liam Sobey •  Devi Sridhar •  Tanit Chearavanont •  Vasudha Vats •  laudia Vergueiro Massei •  Hitesh Wadhwa •  David Alexander Walcott •  Wang Guan •  Ricardo Weder •  Lea Wermelin •  Silvia Wiesner •  Gareth Wong •  Chen Wu •  Xue Peng
WEF/Young Global Leaders 2021

WEF/Young Global Leaders 2021.

The class of 2021 was made up of 112 individuals. The list included the incumbent finance ministers of Angola and Argentina.

Examples

Some examples include:

• Andrew Bragg is an Australian politician. He became a Senator in 2019.

• Adriana Cargill is a member of the Cargill family, the fourth-wealthiest family in America. She works as a journalist in Los Angeles at KCRW Radio.

• Vera Daves de Sousa was made finance minister of Angola when she was 35.

• Amélie de Montchalin is a French politician. She has served as a minister under President Macron, responsible for implementing the pass sanitaire in public services.

• Garlin Gilchrist II is an American politician. He has been Gretchen Whitmer's deputy since 2019.

• Ibram X Kendi is an American author and activist. He believes the low take-up of Black people having the COVID vaccine is due to racism.

• Devi Sridhar is a Professor and Chair of Global Public Health at the University of Edinburgh. In 2020, she advised the Scottish government on how to deal with the COVID-19/Pandemic.

• Vasudha Vats is a Vice president of Pfizer.

Geography

The WEF categorised their young leaders by region.

YGLs by region

• Africa: 8 YGLs
• ASEAN: 9 YGLs
• Australia and Oceania: 2 YGLs
• Caribbean: 1 YGL
• Eurasia: 2 YGLs
• Europe: 23 YGLs
• Greater China: 9 YGLs
• Japan: 1 YGL
• Korea and North Asia: 3 YGLs
• Latin America: 9 YGLs
• Middle East & North Africa: 12 YGLs
• North America: 20 YGLs
• South Asia: 9 YGLs

 

Known members

17 of the 102 of the members already have pages here:

Member	Description
Tendayi Achiume	"As of June 2022, 72.09% of people in high income countries had been vaccinated with at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, whereas only 17.94% of people in low-income countries have been vaccinated"
Andrew Bragg	Australian Senator; WEF/Young Global Leaders 2021
Sinéad Burke	Irish disability activist. WEF/Young Global Leaders 2021
Adriana Cargill	WEF/Young Global Leaders 2021
Andrey Guryev	Russian businessman
Martín Guzmán	Argentinean Minister of Economy during the Covid-lockdowns and debt restructuring. Selected WEF/YGL. Close to many projects of George Soros.
Garlin Gilchrist II	Deputy of Governor Gretchen Whitmer, WEF/Young Global Leaders 2021
Ibram X Kendi	Selected as Young Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2021.
Jessica Mauboy	Australian singer,
Amélie de Montchalin	French politician, WEF/Young Global Leaders 2021
Vivek Ramaswamy	Republican candidate in the US/2024 Presidential election
Izkia Siches	Chilean doctor prominent in corporate media during the Covid-19 deep event. In 2022 appointed Minister of Interior and Public Security, the second most important in government after the President. WEF Young Global Leader 2021 and fan of fellow YGL, New Zealand's Jacinda Ardern.
Vera Daves de Sousa	Millennial finance minister of Angola; WEF/Young Global Leaders 2021
Devi Sridhar	WEF Young Global Leader pushing SDS policy. In 2020, Devi Sridhar advised the Scottish government on how to deal with COVID in Scotland. Unflinching as to children.
Alanoud Bint Hamad Al Thani	The youngest Young Leader at the World Economic Forum in 2021.
Vasudha Vats	Vice president of Pfizer.
Lea Wermelin	Danish cabinet minister; WEF/Young Global Leaders 2021

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