WEF/Annual Meeting/2026
The Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum 2026 took place in Davos, Klosters from 19-23 January. The meeting brought together more than 2,500 delegates from government, business and civil society of whom 675 are listed here.
Contents
Own words
The programme was structured around "five key global challenges where public-private dialogue and cooperation, involving all stakeholders, is necessary for progress."[1]
- How can we cooperate in a more contested world?
- How can we unlock new sources of growth?
- How can we better invest in people?
- How can we deploy innovation at scale and responsibly?
- How can we build prosperity within planetary boundaries?
Activities
During Bill Gates appearance, he complained that financial support for his global health initiatives had collapsed. At the same time, he enthusiastically reported on his new $50 million experiment, which he plans to conduct in Rwanda and other African countries together with the US software company OpenAI. By 2028, AI tools are to be introduced into the primary health networks there.[2]
On the sidelines of the World Economic Forum, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla gave an interview. Bourla let it be known that he was frustrated and worried about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.. Although he maintains a "very strong and respectful relationship" with him, he could only discuss things with him that they could agree on. The topic of "vaccinations" is not one of them, in this regard they would live in different worlds. Kennedy's attitude described Bourla as a kind of "religion". When asked what ultimately needs to change, he replied, "The secretary of health."[3]
| James O'Keefe went undercover, speaking to WEF insiders discussing carbon taxes, chemtrails and weather modification. WEF insider Emil Luth who worked with DARPA discussed hidden plans about artificial rain. The President and CEO at 4AIR said "the ability to put sulfur dioxide up there is pretty cheap way to cool down the earth." Sara Lemniei, CEO of SLK Capital, boasted about being one of the largest climate tax innovators for the UK government. "We are looking at some carbon credits and renewable energy in the compliance markets," she said. "We are looking at CBAM [Carbon Border Adjustments] which is one of the new regulations where companies are exporting to Europe."[4] |
Participants
Only high-profile attendees or people who were panel participants are known, so around a quarter of all attendees, of whom 675 have pages listed here.
Non-Participants
The founder of the WEF Klaus Schwab was absent for the first time since 1971.[5] The Danish government delegation also stayed away to protest US President Donald Trump's posturing on annexing Greenland.[6]
The Social Function of WEF
“Now, WEF in particular is such an elite gathering and it performs several functions. The attendance at Davos itself leads to an institutionalized recognition that one is member of a global elite. Further, the networks formed at such a meeting can be converted into economic benefit (through deals and contracts) but also political influence (e.g. policy coordination). Thus, whether decisions were made here, I don't know, but the informal gatherings that such venues as Davos provide do offer the possibility for such actions...
It is also where elites hear the same story from different elite stakeholders, thereby aligning their cognitive maps and talking points for the year. It’s about reducing entropy within the ruling stratum. It's also a space to forge a working consensus on permissible policies and realistic horizons. Disagreements are managed within the boundaries of shared class and systemic interests (e.g., how to secure critical minerals, not whether to prioritize securitization over the welfare state).
Lastly, the event generates a media cascade that signals to investors, bureaucrats, and the professional-managerial class what the 'serious people' are now thinking. The carefully curated release of reports and speeches provides a legitimizing intellectual gloss for policies that will later be implemented. It’s the first green light for more austerity, mobilization, and the normalization of amoral realism.
Therefore, Davos 2026 was not where these larger political frameworks of pragmatism, technocracy, and the 'mask off' moment were decided or debated, but it was rather where decisions were publicly synchronized across the transatlantic system. It is a dynamic of structural coordination through shared class position and all of which this implies...
This is the shift from 'liberal internationalism' (universal rules, human rights, multilateral institutions) to 'value-based realism' (bloc cohesion, strategic resilience, hard power) is thus nothing more than a taking the mask off moment as well as a justification for the coming harshness, the amoralness.”
Nel (January 2026) [7]
Known Participants
252 of the 675 participants already have pages here:
| Participant | Description |
|---|---|
| Marina Abramović | Serbian performance artist who invited John and Tony Podesta to her "spirit cooking" |
| Noubar Afeyan | US businessman, inventor, and philanthropist |
| Ravi Agrawal | Indian journalist and television producer with an MSC/WEF meeting habit |
| Rania Al-Mashat | |
| Mina Al-Oraibi | Iraqi journalist, WEF YGL 2009 |
| Erica Alessandri | WEF YGL 2021 with a WEF AGM habit, "optimal wellness" |
| Jeremy Allaire | Internet businessman who attends WEF AGMs |
| Graham Allison | Attended the Bilderberg in 2007 after a 33 year break. First attended, as a speaker, in 1970, aged 30. Multiple deep state connections. |
| Dario Amodei | Bill Gates-connected AI "expert" who was invited to the 2024 Bilderberg. Shilling for a fantastic future if "policymakers" only hand everything over to AI. |
| Anita Anand | Canadian politician and academic |
| Jamil Anderlini | Corporate journalist with long China experience. Attended Bilderberg/2024, where one of the subjects was China. WEF/YGL. |
| Brian Armstrong | US crypto-billionaire |
| Josef Aschbacher | European Space Agency/Director General 2021- |
| Annalena Baerbock | "A perfect product of transatlantic leader selection." |
| Sanjiv Bajaj | Indian billionaire businessman with a heavy WEF meeting habit |
| Gerard Baker | Attended all the Jackson Hole meetings from 1997 to 2002, heavy WEF AGM habit |
| Stéphane Bancel | French CEO of Moderna who struck it rich with its first product allowed on the market, a COVID-19 vaccine |
| Ajay Banga | Indian-US business with a lot of connections, especially to processed food. As Mastercard executive interested in a cashless society. |
| Jean-Noël Barrot | French politician |
| Zanny Minton Beddoes | Financial journalist, Bilderberger, IMF economist under Jeffrey Sachs |
| Yoshua Bengio | Deep learning and Artificial Intelligence expert who attended the 2016 Bilderberg |
| Marc Benioff | Both a WEF GLT and a WEF YGL, US internet billionaire deep state functionary, bought Time Magazine |
| Katrin Bennhold | New York Times international reporter |
| Stanley Bergman | Millionaire businessman with a heavy WEF AGM habit listed in Jeffrey Epstein's 1997 Black book |
| Scott Bessent | Previously the Chief Investment Officer of Soros Fund Management, where he helped crash the British pound. “In the world of macro hedge funds, Scott Bessent could be regarded as royalty.” |
| Fatih Birol | Turkish economist and executive director of the International Energy Agency, working towards net zero. |
| Zachary Bogue | Husband of WEF YGL 2010 Marissa Mayer |
| Iris Bohnet | |
| Catherine De Bolle | Senior Belgian police official |
| Jason Bordoff | Macro Advisory Partners/Board member, attends MSCs, WEF Annual meetings |
| Anna Borg | President and CEO of the Swedish hydro-electricity company Vattenfall who attended the 2023 WEF AGM, where she held a presentation on electrification across society, and then the 2023 Bilderberg. |
| Albert Bourla | Chairman and chief executive officer of Pfizer who termed the COVID jabs "weapons" |
| Ruben Brekelmans | WEF YGL Dutch politician; Harvard Kennedy School |
| Ian Bremmer | President and founder of the Eurasia Group. Heavy MSC habit, CFR, TLC, YGL 2007, Bilderberg 2007 |
| Børge Brende | Bilderberg Steering Committee, President of the World Economic Forum 2017- |
| Tania Bryer | British broadcaster in Epstein's black book. |
| Erik Brynjolfsson | US academic focusing on information technology |
| Thomas Buberl | German poly-Bilderberg money manager, WEF AGMs, WEF YGL 2008 |
| Ebba Busch | Swedish politician who first went to the Bilderberg in 2025 as Swedish Minister for Energy Business and Industry |
| Roland Busch | |
| Dorothee Bär | A member of the Friedrich Merz/Cabinet, Hanns Seidel Foundation & Atlantik-Brücke |
| Oliver Bäte | German businessman with supranational deep state connections |
| Nadia Calviño | President of the European Investment Bank. Bilderberg/2024. |
| Alastair Campbell | Director of Communications and Strategy for Tony Blair 1997-2003 |
| Mark Carney | Goldman Sachs Governor of the Bank of Canada then the Bank of England, G30, Triple citizenship, No shortage of Bilderbergs or WEF Annual Meetings to become Prime Minister of Canada |
| François-Philippe Champagne | Canadian Bilderberger politician, lawyer |
| Bonnie Chan | |
| Jagan Chapagain | WEF functionary |
| Helen Clark | WEF supported NZ politician |
| Chris Coons | US lawyer and politician |
| ... further results | |
- ↑ https://www.weforum.org/meetings/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2026/themes/
- ↑ https://africa.businessinsider.com/local/markets/why-africans-dont-trust-bill-gates-dollar50-million-health-initiative-in-africa/9fgs9hz
- ↑ https://firstwordpharma.com/story/7076446
- ↑ https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/01/james-okeefe-goes-undercover-davos-world-economic-forum/
- ↑ https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/davos-elite-world-economic-forum-set-to-open-with-pro-business-trump-set-to-attend-and-inequality-on-the-rise
- ↑ https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/19/trump-world-economic-forum-davos-who-isnt-going.html
- ↑ https://archive.is/wip/vEJLd
