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Thomas Klestil
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 Thomas Klestil       ( diplomat, politician) | ||||||||||
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| Born | 4 November 1932 Vienna, Austria | |||||||||
| Died | 4 November 1932 (Age 0) Vienna, Austria | |||||||||
| Nationality | Austrian | |||||||||
| Alma mater | Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration | |||||||||
| Spouse | Edith Klestil | |||||||||
| Party | Austrian People's Party, (ÖVP) | |||||||||
President of Austria 4 years after attending the 1988 Bilderberg
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Events Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Bilderberg/1988 | 3 June 1988 | 5 June 1988 | Austria Interalpen-Hotel Telfs-Buchen | The 36th meeting, 114 participants |
| WEF/Annual Meeting/1996 | January 1996 | January 1996 | Switzerland WEF | "As globalization goes on deploying its impact, innovative policies that help contain the mounting backlash against it are urgently needed," warned Klaus Schwab |
| WEF/Annual Meeting/1997 | January 1997 | January 1997 | Switzerland WEF | Harvard University political scientist Samuel P. Huntington, who died in 2008, is credited with coining the term "Davos Man" to refer to what he regarded as a global elite, a minority, who "have little need for national loyalty, view national boundaries as obstacles that thankfully are vanishing, and see national governments as residues from the past whose only useful function is to facilitate the elite’s global operations." |
| 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, |
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