WEF/Young Global Leaders/2021

WEF/Young Global Leaders/2021 (WEF/Young Global Leaders)
Abbreviation	YGL/2021
Membership	• Tendayi Achiume • Daniel Ahn • Peter Biar Ajak • Anulika Ajufo • Esraa Al-Buti • Erica Alessandri • Mohamed Al Hashemi • Suren Aloyan • Elham Al Qasim • Alanoud Bint Hamad Al Thani • Nathalia Arcuri • Aditi Avasthi • Shiho Azuma • Maleeka Bokhari • Srikanth Bolla • Christoph Bornschein • Andrew Bragg • Sinéad Burke • Adriana Cargill • Luis Felipe Cervantes Legorreta • Matthew Chamberlain • Arvan Chan • Nirvana Chaudhary • Francesca Chia • Alexis Crow • Thomas Crowther • Rose Damen • Vera Daves de Sousa • Alberto de Belaunde • Alexander de Carvalho • Anne-Laure de Chammard • Sangu Delle • Amélie de Montchalin • Abasi Ene-Obong • El Seed Faouzi • Fawaz Farooqui • Cristina Fonseca • Laure Forgeron • Jocelyn Formsma • Laura Gersch • Garlin Gilchrist II • Pierre-Dimitri Gore-Coty • Megan Greenfield • Andrey A. Guryev • Martín Guzmán • He Zhengyu • Dalal Saeb Iriqat • Jessica Jackson • Dana Juffa • Nari Kahle • Gazal Kalra • Gadeer Kamal-Mreeh • Brian Kaufmann • Conrod Kelly • Ibram X Kendi • Shreevar Kheruka • Sophie Seula Kim • Terrence Kommal • Sanae Lahlou • Seung Gun Lee • Catherine Lenson • Yifan Li • Li Ni • Haley Lowry • Lu Chaoyang • Luiza Mattos • Jessica Mauboy • Lukas Nelson • Wawira Njiru • Mohammad Salem Omaid • Adriana Ortiz • Obi Ozor • Burcu Ozturk • Amit Paley • Roberto Patiño • Xue Peng • Gregoire Pictet • Ameya Prabhu • Zhuang Qian • Kira Radinsky • Rohan Ramakrishnan • Hriday Ravindranath • Paul Rivera • Kishin RK • Anneliese Schulz • Emily Serazin • Izkia Siches • Virginijus Sinkevicius • Liam Sobey • Devi Sridhar • Tanit Chearavanont • Vasudha Vats • Claudia Vergueiro Massei • Hitesh Wadhwa • David Alexander Walcott • Wang Guan • Ricardo Weder • Lea Wermelin • Silvia Wiesner • Gareth Wong • Chen Wu
WEF's Young Global Leaders of 2021

The class of 2021 was made up of 112 individuals. The previous year's cadre is listed at WEF/Young Global Leaders/2020. The next year's cadre is listed at WEF/Young Global Leaders/2022.

The list included the incumbent finance ministers of Angola and Argentina.

Selected Examples

Devi Sridhar has agressively pushed COVID-19 jabs for kids, including personally claiming that they were 100% "safe and effective" on CBBC's Newsround

• Andrew Bragg is an Australian politician. He became a Senator in 2019.
• Adriana Cargill is a member of the Cargill family, the fourth-wealthiest family in America. She works as a journalist in Los Angeles at KCRW Radio.
• Andrey Guryev. In April 2020 moderated conference on "the possibility of a dramatic transformation in the structure, principles and processes for doing business following the coronavirus pandemic."
• Martín Guzmán - Argentinian Minister of Economy from 2019. Oversaw some of the longest lockdowns in the world (rumored to be after deal with George Soros).
• Izkia Siches - Chilean doctor prominent in corporate media during the Covid-19 deep event. In 2022 appointed Minister of Interior and Public Security, the second most important in government after new President Boric. Fan of fellow YGL, New Zealand's PM Jacinda Ardern.
• Vera Daves de Sousa was made finance minister of Angola when she was 35.
• Amélie de Montchalin is a French politician. She has been a minister under President Macron, responsible for implementing the pass sanitaire in public services.
• Garlin Gilchrist II is a US politician. He has been Gretchen Whitmer's deputy since 2019.
• Ibram X. Kendi is an American author and activist. He believes the low take-up of Black people having the COVID vaccine is due to racism.
• Devi Sridhar is a Professor and Chair of Global Public Health at the University of Edinburgh. In 2020, she advised the Scottish government on dealing with COVID-19.
• Vasudha Vats is a Vice president of Pfizer.

Geography

The WEF categorised their young leaders by region.

YGLs by region

• Africa: 8 YGLs
• ASEAN: 9 YGLs
• Australia and Oceania: 2 YGLs
• Caribbean: 1 YGL
• Eurasia: 2 YGLs
• Europe: 23 YGLs
• Greater China: 9 YGLs
• Japan: 1 YGL
• Korea and North Asia: 3 YGLs
• Latin America: 9 YGLs
• Middle East & North Africa: 12 YGLs
• North America: 20 YGLs
• South Asia: 9 YGLs