COVID-19/Perpetrators/WEF

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

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

A lot of people with close WEF ties have been busy with COVID-19. This page lists over 120 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.

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.

National Task Forces

• 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

Hunt with Klaus Schwabs book 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

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.
• 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.
• 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”.

Furlough Schemes

• György Surányi - GLT/1993, Bilderberg/1999, Bilderberg/1997, Bilderberg/1996 - Wrote a long essay in April 2020 suggesting the Hungarian government pay targeted subsidies to those who lose their jobs due to lockdowns.

Masks

Full article: Mask

• Jeremy Howard - YGL/2013 - Founded the influential lobby group “Masks for All”, a worldwide campaign for mandatory face masks.
• 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”

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

• 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 - 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 coordination access to "eventual COVID-19 vaccines to counter the virus which has the continent within its grip".
• 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

• 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

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
• 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

• 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,” lef Jean said, noting 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

Jens Spahn was made German Health minister after attending the 2017 Bilderberg, rejected a donation of hydroxychloroquine in 2020 and stated that "vaccines are the way out of this pandemic"

Sidelining of drugs to treat the disease was a requirement for the granting of Emergency Use Authorisation of the experimental jabs. Many Bilderberg controlled groups, such as Médecins Sans Frontières, termed repurposed drugs "disinformation".

• Cyril Ramaphosa - GLT/1993 - President of South Africa when it made ivermectin illegal, helped pick the African Union Special Envoys on Covid-19
• Jens Spahn - YEL/2012, YGL, Bilderberg/2017 - German Health minister since March 2018, close to big pharma. Was specifically requested to look into ivermectin as a tool to control the spread of the disease, but moved towards mandating vaccines and stated that "vaccines are the way out of this pandemic".

Liability Evasion

• Evan Greenberg - GLT/1998 - Chairman and CEO of Chubb, "pleased to extend our collaboration with the World Health Organization and its partners to support the critically important COVAX No-Fault Compensation Program."

Production & distribution

• Mukesh Ambani - GLT/1994 - Indian billionaire who heads Reliance, which manufactures a COVID-19 jab.
• José Manuel Barroso - GLT/1993 Bilderberg 2019-Bilderberg 2015, Bilderberg 2013, Bilderberg 2005, Bilderberg 2003, Bilderberg 1994, made GAVI CEO in 2021
• Stéphane Bancel - YGL/2009 - CEO of Moderna
• Ian Bremmer - YGL/2007 - Bilderberg 2007 - Founded the Eurasia Group, whose 2020 study on access to COVID jabs "to assess the economic benefits to advanced economies of contributing to the work of the Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator" the WHO cited.
• Kirill Dmitriev - YGL/2009 - CEO of the organization that made Sputnik V
  

  Peter Thiel, Co-founder and largest shareholder of Palantir, which is heavily involved in crunching COVID data
• Herman Gref - CEO of Sberbank, which he stated was "included in the work on the creation of a vaccine". In May Sberbank 2020 registered a subsidiary, Immunotechnology LLC, created as a “project office to support the production of a vaccine against the new coronavirus.” “included in the work on the creation of a vaccine”
• Susan Hockfield - Appointed a Pfizer director in March 2020
• Khairy Jamaluddin - YGL/2007 - As Malaysian Health Minister, headed the Malaysian COVID-19 Immunisation project.
• Leif Johansson - GLT/1993 - Bilderberg 2000, Bilderberg 2001 - Non-executive chairman of AstraZeneca
• Brian McNamee - GLT/1994 - CEO of CSL, which as of May 2021 was producing over a million COVID jabs/week in Australia.
• Peter Thiel - YGL/2007 - Bilderberg 2019-2007 - Co-founder and largest shareholder of Palantir as of 2020, heavily involved in managing COVID data
• Vasudha Vats - YGL/2021 - Appointed Pfizer/Vice President in December 2020

Uncritical promotion

• Richard Branson - GLT/1993 - In 2021 wrote: "Delighted to receive my first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. It felt like one of the happiest moments of my life", quoted that "nothing else matters more" for the Australian government than COVID jabbing its population
• Thomas Crampton - GLT/2003, YGL/2005 - Worked on the Commons Project, a WEF backed digital biometric ID project, since January 2021 a lobbyist for GreenLight Biosciences, focused on promotion of COVID jabs
• Karina Gould - YGL/2020 - Together with the US and other donors, she helped the global "vaccine" distribution system COVAX to deliver about 1.4 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines by the beginning of 2022.
• Peter Maurer - As President of the International Committee of the Red Cross since 2012, stated that the group "will continue in 192 countries to support governments' efforts to control the spread of the virus and deliver vaccinations. Our role is to reach the populations in the 'last mile'".
• 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"

“In the end, everyone will have to be vaccinated; even the anti-vaxxers will realize that they will either get vaccinated or die. So, I urge everyone to take this opportunity"”
Viktor Orbán

• Viktor Orbán - GLT/1993 - As Hungarian PM passed a "coronavirus law" that allow him rule by decree for an indefinite period.
• Kenneth Roth - GLT/1997 - Director of Human Rights Watch, which supported the WEF narrative, publishing at article in December 2021 claiming that The World Desperately Needs More Covid-19 Vaccines

No hard questions from Dr. Oz to Rochelle Walensky ...

• Mehmet Oz - GLT/2000 - Celebrity doctor who in March and April 2020 sailed an independent path, advocating hydroxychloroquine against COVID, challenging Anthony Fauci to a debate, and offering to fund a clinical trial,. His press coverage ceased until his opinions had fallen in lockstep with the COVID-19 official narrative. His Dr. Oz show one-to-one with the CDC director resembles scripted PR to promote mass injection of US kids]]
• 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"

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.
• 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 - Aggressive promotion of "Vaccine passports", early suggester of locking down people who declined the jabs.
• 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".
• 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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