COVID-19/Perpetrators/WEF

COVID-19/Perpetrators/WEF
Abbreviation	C19/WEF
This page summarises the involvement of WEF affiliated personnel in the COVID-19 event.

Many of those listed below are also on the COVID-19 Bilderbergers list

Many people with close WEF ties were busy with COVID-19. This page lists over 130 WEF trustees, (underlined), WEF/Global Leaders for Tomorrow (1993-2003) or WEF/Young Global Leaders (2005-) who played important parts in the COVID-19 event. Most if not all of the thousands of visitors to the WEF AGMs cooperated with the "COVID response" measures.

Virus R & D

Full article: COVID-19/Origins

• Boris Nikolic - YGL/2009 - An immunologist, Bill Gates’ former science adviser, investor in genome editing (whom Jeffrey Epstein chose as executor of his will)
• Nathan Wolfe - YGL/2010 - Researcher into zoonotic virus emergence. Founded Metabiota which was awarded a sub-contract by the DTRA for work in Ukrainian biolabs
• Feng Zhang - YGL/2017 - Played a central role in the development of optogenetics and CRISPR technologies.

Pandemic Planning

Full article: Pandemic/Planning

• David Gergen - Board member of the Klaus Schwab Foundation, Operation Dark Winter, 1992 Bilderberg, 1995 Bilderberg
• Rajiv Shah - YGL/2007 - President of the Rockefeller Foundation since 2017, ...

Task Forces

Full article: COVID-19 Task Force

In Spring 2020, many nation states formed COVID-19 Task Forces, which either had, or acted as if they had, "state of emergency" powers to override standard operating procedure.

International Task Forces

• Thierry Breton - GLT/1998, Le Siecle - In December 2019, was appointed European Commissioner for the Internal Market, a position from which he promoted the $1.7T bailout package for banks and big business. Became Head of the EU Vaccine Taskforce in February 2021, in time to promote the jabs.

National Task Forces

• Martha Lane Fox - YGL/2012 - Chaired the House of Lords/COVID-19 Committee throughout its existence
• Jeffrey Zients - GLT/2003, Bilderberg/2017 - Became White House coronavirus coordinator in 2021, announced in August that year that “it’s time to impose some requirements” where COVID jabs are concerned.

Handlers

Mark Carney, Tri-national, quad-Bilderberger, Governor of the Bank of England until March 2020, when he became an "informal adviser" to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau

• Mark Carney - Bilderberg/2019, 2018, 2012, 2011 - "acting as an informal adviser to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on the federal government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic."

Others

Jeffrey Sachs, who was made chair of the Lancet Commission on COVID-19 after Peter Daszak recused himself

• Ann-Kristin Achleitner - GLT/1998 - Appointed to the Bavaria/COVID-19 Economic Advisory Council‎‎ alongside two Bilderbergers, Wife of a Bilderberg Steering Committee member
• Thomas Bollyky - YGL/2013 - Directed the CFR's 2020 Independent Task Force on Improving Pandemic Preparedness
• Sylvia Burwell - YGL/2005, Bilderberg/2018 - Co-chair of the Council on Foreign Relations's "Independent Task Force on Improving Pandemic Preparedness
• Trevor Manuel - YGL/2014 - Appointed in April 2020 one of Africa's four African Union Special Envoys on Covid-19 by Cyril Ramaphosa
• Jeffrey Sachs - GLT/1995, Bilderberg/1990 - Chaired The Lancet's COVID-19 commission.
• Tidjane Thiam - GLT/1998 - Appointed in April 2020 one of Africa's four African Union Special Envoys on Covid-19 by fellow GLT, Cyril Ramaphosa

Social change

Greg Hunt with Klaus Schwab's The Great Reset in his ministerial bookshelf

• Martha Lane Fox - YGL/2012 - Headed a House of Lords inquiry into life beyond Covid.
• Greg Hunt - GLT/2003, Australian Health Minister, former WEF strategy director, oversaw the Australian government's actions in the COVID-19 deep event.
• Rory Stewart - YGL/2008 - Spooky UK MP who in March 2020 predicted the policies later enacted as a COVID response
• Makarem Batterjee - YGL/2008 - As president of the Saudi German Hospitals Group, worked with the Saudi health ministry on COVID-19 policy

Lockdowns

Full article: COVID-19/Lockdown

• Jacinda Ardern - YGL/2014 - As Prime Minister of New Zealand, ordered notoriously strict lockdown measures in New Zealand
• Anies Baswedan - YGL/2009 - As Jakarta Governor ordered lockdowns
• Alexander De Croo - YGL/2015 - As Prime Minister of Belgium, ordered some of the harshest lockdowns in Europe.
• Hamish Douglass - YGL/2009 - On 18 March 2020, as head of Magellan, wrote to his clients predicting “the most likely outcome of the efforts to contain this [COVID-19] emergency is a near total shutdown of the world’s economy over the next two to six months”.
• Andrei Elinson - YGL/2011 - With Andrey Guryev, convened an April 2020 summit of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs Coordinating Council for combating the coronavirus outbreak, that promoted lockdowns to 250 business leaders
• Andrey Guryev - YGL/2021 - With Andrei Elinson, convened an April 2020 summit of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs Coordinating Council for combating the coronavirus outbreak, that promoted lockdowns to 250 business leaders
• Yuriko Koike - GLT/1993 - As Governor of Tokyo, ordered lockdowns
• Ebrahim Patel - GLT/1994 - As South African Minister for Trade, Industry and Competition, a main administrator of the waves of lockdowns that shut down most activities in the country from March 23, 2020 onward.
• Leo Varadkar - Full article: Mask
  

Bain & Company's instructions on how workplaces should change due to COVID-19

• Jeremy Howard - YGL/2013 - Founded the influential lobby group “Masks for All”, a worldwide campaign for mandatory face masks.
• Yashovardhan Lohia - YGL/2022 - Runs Indorama Ventures, "a global integrated leader in PET, a polyester fibre used in face masks made from recycled plastic waste. They have increased their production of PET to meet the growing global demand for face masks amidst the crisis."
• Vincent Van Quickenborne - YGL/2010 - As Belgian Justice Minister imposed fines on those who refused to take COVID tests or wear masks.

Social distancing

::Full article: “Social distancing”

• Susan Athey - YGL/2008 - Bilderberg/2013 - With Dean Karlan, published How to practice social distancing while helping the economy in the Washington Post
• Orit Gadiesh - Bilderberg/1998, Bilderberg/1997 - WEF AGM regular, Chair of Bain & Company, which was closely involved in directing government policy in various nations. In France it was entrusted by the government to steer the country's Covid testing strategy. On 29 April 2020 it put out a guide describing how workplaces should change due to COVID-19.

Track and Trace

::Full article: Mass surveillance

Controlling the Narrative

• Andrés Allamand - GLT/1995 - Quoted on behalf of a group of South American leaders which met in 2020 to coordinate access to "eventual COVID-19 vaccines to counter the virus which has the continent within its grip".
• Vincent Bagiire - YGL/2014 - As Ugandan ICT permanent secretary in April 2020 announced that "over the months of May and June, the three partners will demystify the myths around COVID-19."
• Bill Gates - GLT/1993, Bilderberg/2010 - Aggressive promotion of vaccines, ID2020 and vaccine passports. Predicted in March 2020 that "Eventually we will need some digital certificates to show who has recovered or been tested (for COVID-19) recently, or when we have a vaccine, who has received it."

“People act like they have a choice. You don't have a choice. Normalcy only returns when we've largely vaccinated the entire global population [against COVID-19].”
Bill Gates (2020) 

• Hala Gorani - YGL/2011 - Anchor and correspondent for CNN International, served softball questions as regards COVID-19
• Sanjay Gupta - YGL/2010 - As chief medical correspondent for CNN, carried out fawning interviews of Bill Gates to help shape public perceptions
• Andrey Guryev - YGL/2021 - In April 2020 moderated a conference on "the possibility of a dramatic transformation in the structure, principles and processes for doing business following the coronavirus pandemic."
• Ivan Krastev - YGL/2006] - Bilderberg/2019 - Published various articles about COVID-19's social impact from March 2020 onward and wrote Is It Tomorrow Yet? Paradoxes of the Pandemic

The Avaaz website consistently supported the WEF's COVID-19 claims, calling for more COVID censorship. This screenshot is from May 2022

The WHO/Rakuten COVID-19 chatbot. This screenshot is from January 2023

• Hiroshi Mikitani - GLT/2001, YGL/2005 - Billionaire head of Rakuten, Japan's biggest e-commerce retailer, Representative Director of the Japan Association of New Economy: "I want vaccinations to proceed at warp speed" Already in March 2020, Rakuten had a multilingual chat bot to "fight COVID-19 misinformation".
• Ricken Patel - YGL/2010 - Avaaz CEO 2005-2021. Not only did the website fail to crystallise opposition to the Covid official narrative, it publicly called for more to be done to tackle "conspiracy theorists" who questioned it
• Vladimir Putin - GLT - As President of Russia approved the invasion of Ukraine in time to distract from the globally flailing official narrative of COVID-19
• Fareed Zakaria - GLT/2001, YGL/2005 - Bilderberg/2005, Bilderberg/2003 - Journalist who wrote Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World

Testing

• André Hoffmann - Vice chairman of Roche, which produced tests

Academia

• Eva Dichand - YGL/2010 - Was Chair of the University Council of the Medical University of Vienna in 2021, when it fired Professor Andreas Sönnichsen, the Chair of Public Health, after his prominent criticism of COVID-19, including calling the jab "the biggest medical scandal of all time".

Big media

A Time cover announces "The Great Reset"

• Debo Adesina - YGL/2006 - Editor of The Guardian until July 2020

The Guardian on the "COVID-19 Vaccine" for ids, an "anonymous" article that could have been written by a lobbyist continued "Misinformation led to her being picked on. A clear government campaign aimed at 12 to 15-year-olds is vital".

• Marc Benioff - GLT/2002 - Purchased Time Magazine, a part of the US corporate media establishment
• Anderson Cooper - YGL/2008 - CNN anchor whose support for the official narrative included notably softballing questions to Bill Gates in a 2021 interview, avoiding any serious issues.
• Mathias Döpfner - GLT/2001 - Bilderberg/2019-Bilderberg/2014, Bilderberg/2007-Bilderberg/2005 - Billionaire, Axel Springer Publishing House/CEO
• Alessandra Galloni - YGL/2007 - In 2021 appointed editor-in-chief of Reuters
• Felix Graf - YGL/2007 - CEO of Neue Zürcher Zeitung, which although not recommending mandatory jabs, followed the prescribed narrative, including an April 2022 hit piece on ivermectin
• Yalda Hakim - YGL/2019 - BBC journalist promoting the COVID 19 panic.
• Catherine Howarth - YGL/2014 - Board member of the Scott Trust, owner of The Guardian, which was "scurrilous" in its defense of the COVID official narrative
• Ellana Lee - YGL/2008 - Senior Vice President & Managing Editor, Asia Pacific, for CNN International: "2020 was a banner year for us. It was the perfect storm of great stories"

Promoting panic

::Full article: COVID-19/Panic

• Zin Mar Aung - YGL/2014 - As Myanmar foreign minister, warned in August 2021 that the "worst is yet to come".
• Kumar Mangalam Birla - YGL/2005 - Head of the Aditya Birla Group, which stated that "the Covid-19 pandemic presents an unprecedented challenge to the nation", and spent billions of rupees on efforts to counter covid, including production of masks, PPE etc. Set up "awareness camps across 200 locations and door-to-door campaign to reinforce prevention message".
• Kate Gallego - YGL/2020 - As mayor of Phoenix, made the claim (later contradicted) in July 2020 that a health care provider in the city needed “Refrigerated morgue trucks” because its hospitals had exhausted their morgue capacity
• Wyclef Jean - YGL/2010 - In April 2020, emphasised the danger in a worldwide telethon:- "“COVID-19 is a very serious issue,” stating that some of his family members already “fell victim” to the disease."

Opinion polling

• Molly Crockett - YGL/2017 - US neuroscientist who researched citizens' feelings about COVID-19 and reactions to the measures taken by the politicians, teaching organisations how to present messages to the public and in 2020 promoting the idea that "reducing the impact of the catastrophe depends on persuading large numbers of people to continue to follow public health guidance."
• Jeff Arnold - GLT/2000 - Started Sharecare with WEF classmate Dr. Mehmet Oz, which on 2 April 2020 launched a "national survey to study impact of COVID-19 on community well-being"

Censorship

::Full article: COVID-19/Censorship

• John Battelle - GLT/2001 - YGL/2005 - On the Advisory Board of NewsGuard
• Jared Cohen - YGL/2014 - Bilderberg/2019, Bilderberg/2018 - Jigsaw CEO (formerly Google Ideas)
• Kate Garvey - YGL/2007 - Wife of Jimmy Wales, Co-founder of Wikipedia.
• Angel Gurría - As OECD Secretary-general, planned an incoming international internet censorship treaty.
• Tigran Khudaverdyan - YGL/2007 - From 2020-2022 deputy CEO and an executive member of the board of directors of Yandex.
• Ronaldo Lemos - YGL/2015 - On the Oversight board of Facebook from 2020
• Larry Page - GLT/2002 - Co-founder of Google
• Eric Schmidt - GLT/1997 - Bilderberg/2019, Bilderberg/2017-Bilderberg/2007 - US billionaire who works for Alphabet, with a track record of arranging YouTube censorship of dissent.
• Jimmy Wales - YGL/2007 - Co-founder of Wikipedia, which imposed stringent censorship of all any views contradicting the official narrative.
• Mark Zuckerberg - YGL/2009 - Nominal co-founder of Facebook, which imposed unprecedented censorship of evidence and opinions which contradict the official narrative

"Vaccines"

::Full article: “COVID-19/Vaccine”

R & D

• Anatoly Chubais - GLT/1993 - Longstanding sponsor of the Gamaleya Center, which reportedly developed the Sputnik V vaccine

Sidelining repurposed drugs

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• Weber Shandwick - GLT/2003 - Launched Plan Vx, "an initiative to help business leaders get the message out about the COVID-19 vaccine"
• Devi Sridhar - YGL/2021 - UK zero-covid academic who claimed in a video for CBBC that "the vaccines are 100% safe and effective for children", not mentioned by name in the BBC's subsequent apology
• Kevin Warsh - YGL/2010 - Bilderberg/2014-Bilderberg/2011 - As ex-US Federal Reserve governor: "The biggest, most important stimulus... is this vaccine"

Scapegoating of non-recipients

“You have the option to not get vaccinated if you want, but then you can't go out in public.”
Leana Wen (2021) 

• Leana Wen - YGL/2018 - As a CNN medical contributor, she stated that "life needs to be hard" for Americans who declined a COVID jab

Mandation

Full article: COVID-19/Vaccine/Mandation

“Some argue COVID-19 vaccine mandates are human rights violations. Not really, say experts on actual human rights violations. In fact, some point to the more fundamental right of everyone to be protected from COVID-19...”
WEF (January 2022) 

• Annalena Baerbock - As German Foreign Minister, pushing for vaccine mandates, spoke to the UN General Assembly on "Galvanising Momentum for Universal Vaccination"

[[image:Angela Merkel 2009.jpg|300px|right|thumb|Angela Merkel as German Chancellor stated that "the pandemic is not over until all people in the world have been vaccinated"]]

• Jillian Buriak - YGL/2005 - A professor at the University of Alberta who drafted an open letter calling for mandatory COVID-19 jabs for students, which gained over 1000 signatures in 68 hours.
• Chrystia Freeland - GLT/2000 - As Deputy Prime Minister of Canada, announced mandated COVID jabs through her nominal boss, Justin Trudeau
• Jon Huntsman - GLT/1993 - 2012 - Jeffrey Epstein/Black book -Had direct control of the Salt Lake Tribune in Jan 2022 when it called for the deployment of the US National Guard "to ensure that people without proof of vaccination would not be allowed, well, anywhere."
• Paul Krugman - GLT/1995 - Opined in reliable support of the COVID official story in the New York Times, including that No, vaccine mandates are not an attack on freedom...

• Sebastian Kurz - YGL - Was Chancellor of Austria when the country mandated COVID jabs for all adults
• Emmanuel Macron - YGL/2016, Bilderberg/2014 - As French President, set up France's COVID-19 Scientific Council in March 2020. Declared mandatory jabs for access to common facilities in France in 2021.
• Angela Merkel - GLT/1993, Bilderberg/2005 - Stated in February 2021 that "the pandemic is not over until all people in the world have been vaccinated", later that “We have all agreed that we need vaccine certificates.”
• Gavin Newsom - YGL/2005 - As Governor of California, ordered strict lockdowns and mask mandates in California and decreed mandatory COVID-jabs for all schoolchildren in 2021.
• Jared Polis - YGL/2013 - As Governor of Colorado issued of a public health order that made Colorado one of the first US states to require proof of full vaccination to be admitted into the large indoor events.
• Natalie Rickli - YGL/2012 - Swiss politician who imposed an unusual requirement on those who declined the COVID jabs
• Carlos Alvarado Quesada - YGL/2019 - President of Costa Rica, in November 2021 the first country to mandate COVID-vaccines for children.
• Jagmeet Singh - YGL/2018 - "To get as many people vaccinated as possible, we need to back up the commitment with actions..."
• Justin Trudeau - GLT - As Prime Minister of Canada, mandated COVID jabs for federal employees and travellers aged 12 and over
• Rebecca Weintraub - YGL/2013 - Works in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School leading the COVID-19 Vaccine Delivery workstream of Ariadne Labs, on the CONVINCE Steering Committee, a project working "to create support for COVID-19 immunization and the science behind it. "We need to change our playbook... And that’s going to include vaccine mandates."

"Vaccine Passports"

Full article: Vaccine/Passport

• Tony Blair - GLT/1993, Bilderberg/1993 - Particularly aggressive promotion of "Vaccine passports", early suggester of locking down people who declined the jabs.
• Thierry Breton - GLT/1998 - As head of the European Commission vaccines task force, unveiled the first European "health passport" in March 2021
• Paul Meyer - GLT/2003, YGL/2005 - co-founder and CEO of The Commons Project which has built a worldwide interoperable system of digital immunization authentication tools, just in time for COVID-19.
• Kyriakos Mitsotakis - GLT/2003 - Bilderberg/2018, Bilderberg/2016 - As Greek PM displayed Klaus Schwab's The Great Reset on his desk. In early 2021 he was promoting the idea of "vaccine passports", in November 2021 he was implementing them.
• Mustapha Mokass - YGL/2015 - In July 2020 created CovidPass, a "health passport"

Great Reset

Full article: Great Reset

COVID handouts

As President of the European Central Bank, spent at least €1,850 billion on an asset purchase program during COVID-19. "If we don’t vaccinate the whole world, it will come back to haunt us and hurt us in the form of new variants."

• Gordon Brown - GLT/1993, Bilderberg/1991 - In April 2021, promoted a $60 billion effort to increase vaccination in "poor countries". Appointed WHO ambassador for global health financing in September 2021.
• Tito Mboweni - GLT/1995 - As South African Finance Minister "announced that the country has set aside well over R800 billion as economic measures in the fight against COVID-19."
• Kristalina Georgieva - Bilderberg/2016 - As IMF managing director organised “emergency financing on a scale [and at a speed] never seen before” - issuing dire economic forecasts
• Austan Goolsbee - GLT/2002 - Bilderberg/2012 - Obama advisor, published on the economics of COVID Fan of heavy COVID-19 spending. "The number one rule of virus economics is that you have to stop the virus before you can do anything about economics."
• Christine Lagarde - Bilderberg 2017, Bilderberg/2016, Bilderberg/2014, Bilderberg/2013, Bilderberg/2009 - As President of the European Central Bank she spent €1,850 billion on asset purchase program during COVID-19. In joint interview with Klaus Schwab she declared an intent to "vaccinate the whole world".
• Beatrice Weder di Mauro - YGL/2005 - Appointed to the French Covid debt commission
• Annika Saarikko - YGL/2019 - As Finnish Finance minister, in 2021, appointed chair of EIB Board of Governors, which made a "EUR 56 billion response to mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 crisis"

Financial restructuring - a.k.a. Central Bank Digital Currencies

Full article: Money/Central bank digital currency

• Andrey Kostin - GLT/1999 - As president and chair of state-owned Russian bank VTB, "said the G20 should set up a new organisation in the wake of COVID-19"
• Maria Ramos - GLT/1998 - Digital Finance for a Fairer Post-Pandemic World
• Yuri Soloviev - YGL/2009 - By 2020, chairman of the VTB Bank Management Board

Digital Identity

A 2018 WEF plan of digital identity

The World Economic Forum has been very active in development of digital identity.

• Sam Altman - YGL/2016, Bilderberg/2016 - Tech-millionaire interested in basic income and collection of biometric data such as retina prints.
• Paul Meyer - GLT/2003, YGL/2005 - Co-founder and CEO of The Commons Project which has built a worldwide interoperable system of digital immunization authentication tools

Unclassified so far...

• Ksenia Yudaeva - YGL/2009 - Bank of Russia/First Deputy Governor
• Ilona Szabó de Carvalho - YGL/2015 - Executive director of the Igarapé Institute, Brazil
• Eric Feigl-Ding - Influential zero-covid Twitter voice
• Alicia Garza - YGL/2020
• Abdul Razak Baginda - GLT/1995 - Close associate of the Malaysia Prime Minister
• Martín Guzmán - YGL/2021 - Lockdowns?
• Yuval Harari futurist favored by the WEF leadership, predicting a transhumanist future for the "ever more powerful elite.”
• Lee Hsien Loong - Prime Minister of Singapore since 2004
• Patty Stonesifer - GLT/1997 - Founding CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation trustee, CFR, GAVI ...
• Adair Turner - GLT/1996 - Front man for George Soros-initiatives, interested in basic income

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