In true WEF style, a galaxy of stars – from Blair to Bono and Bill Gates, from Thabo Mbeki, the President of South Africa, to Ellen Sirleaf Johnson, the President of Liberia and the first woman head of state in Africa – sat around the table, with lesser luminaries like Paul Wolfowitz, the President of the World Bank, and Joseph Stiglitz, the award-winning economist in the row, directly behind them.
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Africa on the agenda - Darfur glaringly absent
Published by January 27th, 2007 in Davos07. 0 CommentsAdd to social bookmarking sites:
Davos is a circus of the rich and powerful. Standing by the juice bar is Sneh, the Deputy Minister of Defence of Israel, and chief negotiator with the Palestinian Authority. He immediately recognises me from our meeting in Tel Aviv last December, and comes forward, introducing me to his companion as “the Head of Amnesty International who gives us a hard time but not always without reason.”
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The World Economic Forum prides itself as a “multi-stakeholder forum”, the one place where government leaders, big business and civil society are supposed to rub shoulders. Its press release announcing the theme of this year’s Annual Meeting even listed some of the NGO heads present (including myself).
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