Orit Gadiesh

Orit Gadiesh     ( executive)
Born	January 31, 1951  Haifa,  Israel
Nationality	•  American •  Israeli
Citizenship	Israel,  United States
Alma mater	•  Hebrew University of Jerusalem •  Harvard Business School
Spouse	Grenville Byford
Member of	Bain & Company, Council on Foreign Relations/Members, WEF/Board of Trustees
One of the world's "100 most powerful women". Attended the 1997 and 1998 Bilderbergs.

Orit Gadiesh is an Israeli-American strategist and chairperson of Bain & Company.

Background

Gadiesh was born in Haifa, Israel, in 1951, the daughter of a Berlin-born Israel Defense Forces Colonel Falk Gadiesh

She was in the IDF, "not anywhere, but with the second most important man in the Israeli army, watching decisions about life and death in the command center", in the office of Deputy Chief of Staff Ezer Weizman.

Activities

Forbes has listed her among the world's "100 most powerful women" four times since 2004.

As of 2020 she was chair of Bain & Company.

She sat on the International Advisory Board of The Atlantic Council.^[When?]

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Bilderberg/1997	12 June 1997	15 June 1997	US Lake Lanier Georgia (State)	The 45th Bilderberg meeting
Bilderberg/1998	14 May 1998	17 May 1998	Scotland Turnberry	The 46th Bilderberg meeting, held in Scotland, chaired by Peter Carrington
WEF/Annual Meeting/1999	January 1999	January 1999	Switzerland WEF	In the run-up to the Annual Meeting, which had as its theme "Responsible Globality", United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Klaus Schwab were in discussions about how to rally participants to support a global effort to support sustainability and responsible business practices". This was the genesis of the UN Global Compact,
WEF/Annual Meeting/2004	21 January 2004	25 January 2004	Switzerland WEF	2068 billionaires, CEOs and their politicians and "civil society" leaders met under the slogan Partnering for Prosperity and Security. "We have the people who matter," said World Economic Forum Co-Chief Executive Officer José María Figueres.
WEF/Annual Meeting/2006	25 January 2006	29 January 2006	Switzerland WEF	Both former US president Bill Clinton and Bill Gates pushed for public-private partnerships. Only a few of the over 2000 participants are known.
WEF/Annual Meeting/2007	24 January 2007	28 January 2007	Switzerland WEF	Only the 450 public figures listed of ~2200 participants
WEF/Annual Meeting/2009	23 January 2009	27 January 2009	Switzerland WEF	Chairman Klaus Schwab outlined five objectives driving the Forum’s efforts to shape the global agenda, including letting the banks that caused the 2008 economic crisis keep writing the rules, the climate change agenda, over-national government structures, taking control over businesses with the stakeholder agenda, and a "new charter for the global economic order".
WEF/Annual Meeting/2010	27 January 2010	31 January 2010	Switzerland WEF	The organizing theme for the 40th World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in 2010 was "Improve the State of the World: Rethink, Redesign and Rebuild."
WEF/Annual Meeting/2011	26 January 2011	30 January 2011	Switzerland WEF	2229 guests in Davos, with the theme: "Shared Norms for the New Reality".
WEF/Annual Meeting/2012	25 January 2012	29 January 2012	Switzerland WEF	2113 guests in Davos
WEF/Annual Meeting/2013	23 January 2013	27 January 2013	Switzerland WEF	2500 mostly unelected leaders met to discuss "leading through adversity"
WEF/Annual Meeting/2014	22 January 2014	25 January 2014	Switzerland WEF	2603 guests in Davos considered "Reshaping The World"
WEF/Annual Meeting/2016	20 January 2016	23 January 2016	Switzerland WEF	Attended by over 2500 people, both leaders and followers, who were explained how the Fourth Industrial Revolution would changed everything, including being a "revolution of values".
WEF/Annual Meeting/2017	17 January 2017	20 January 2017	Switzerland WEF	2952 known participants, including prominently Bill Gates. "Offers a platform for the most effective and engaged leaders to achieve common goals for greater societal leadership."
WEF/Annual Meeting/2019	22 January 2019	25 January 2019	Switzerland WEF	"The reality is that we are in a Cold War [against China] that threatens to turn into a hot one."
WEF/Annual Meeting/2020	21 January 2020	24 January 2020	Switzerland WEF	This mega-summit of the world's ruling class and their political and media appendages happens every year, but 2020 was special, as the continuous corporate media coverage of COVID-19 started more or less from one day to the next on 20/21 January 2020, coinciding with the start of the meeting.
WEF/Annual Meeting/2022	22 May 2022	26 May 2022	Switzerland WEF	1911 guests in Davos
WEF/Annual Meeting/2023	16 January 2023	20 January 2023	Switzerland WEF	The theme of the meeting was "Cooperation in a Fragmented World"

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