The World Economic Forum (WEF) is an international non-governmental organization, think tank, and lobbying organisation based in Cologny, Canton of Geneva, Switzerland. It was founded on 24 January 1971 by German engineer Klaus Schwab.
Paul Desmarais Jr. is a Canadian businessman and philanthropist. He has been the chairman and co-CEO of Power Corporation of Canada since 1996.
Gordon Melbourne Nixon was the president, CEO and director of Royal Bank of Canada, from 2001 to 2014. He is chairman of Bell Canada Enterprises, lead director of George Weston Limited, director and chairman of the Nominating, Governance & Sustainability Committee of BlackRock Inc. and is on the advisory committee of KingSett Capital.
Allan Richard Taylor is a Canadian retired banker. Taylor joined the Royal Bank of Canada as a clerk in his hometown at the age of sixteen. He rose to become the chairman and CEO of the bank, serving in that capacity from 1986 until 1995.
Richard Attias is a Moroccan events producer, founder and former chairman of PublicisLive and currently the executive chairman of Richard Attias and Associates. He is also the founder of The New York Forum and the co-founder of the Global Clinton Initiative and the Nobel Laureates Conference. From 1995 to 2008, he was the Executive Producer of the Davos Forum.
Malcolm D. Knight is a Canadian economist, policymaker and banker. He is currently Visiting Professor of Finance at the London School of Economics and Political Science and a Distinguished Fellow at the Center for International Governance Innovation. From 2008 to 2012, Knight was Vice Chairman of Deutsche Bank Group where he was responsible for developing and coordinating the bank's global approach to issues in financial regulation, supervision, and financial stability. He served as general manager of the Bank for International Settlements from 2003 to 2008 and as Senior Deputy Governor of the Bank of Canada (1999-2003), after holding senior positions at the International Monetary Fund (1975-1999).
Rebeca Grynspan Mayufis is a Costa Rican economist who has been serving as Secretary-General of the UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) since 13 September 2021.
The Canada India Foundation is a Canadian non-profit organisation established in 2007. The main stated objective of CIF comprises promoting Canada–India relations through their active intervention in public policy, which would cover domestic policies and bilateral issues affecting the Indo-Canadian community, including issues such as culture, education, trade and investment, immigration, diplomatic, political, and strategic relations.
SKEMA Business School is a French business school devoted to higher education and research. It has the legal status of a non-profit association under the French "1901 law". It was founded in 2009 as a result of the merger between the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce (ESC), Lille and CERAM Business School, Sophia Antipolis. The Lille school was founded in 1892 and CERAM in 1963. It offers programmes such as a BBA in Global Management, Master of Science, EMBA, doctorates in Business Administration.
Vanda Vitali is an international museum executive. She was executive director and the Chief executive of the Canadian Museums Association from 2019 through 2021. She has been director and chief executive at the Auckland Museum in Auckland, New Zealand, from 2007 through 2010, the first and only woman ever appointed to that role. She was vice president, public programs and director, content development at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, in Los Angeles, California, from 2002 to 2007.
Forum Invest is an international economic forums organizer, based in Bucharest, Romania, known for the international economic events organized in Bucharest or in various locations of the world, like Washington, D.C., New York City, Toronto, London, Brussels, Paris, Milano, Rome, Madrid, Monte Carlo, Berlin, Vienna, Athens, Belgrade, Moscow, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Beijing.
The Summer Palace Dialogue (SPD) is an economic forum which brings together economists from both China and the United States to discuss economic cooperation between the two largest economies in the world. SPD is co-hosted by Chinese Economists 50 Forum and the Columbia Global Centers East Asia, and was formerly co-hosted by the Brookings Institution. It was founded in 2009 by former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and current Chairman of AEA Investors Admiral Bill Owens and Vice Minister Liu He of the Chinese Central Leading Group on Financial and Economic Affairs. The forum extends for two days. Participants spend the first day in private discussions and then convene a half-day public session to summarize their observations, analyses, and conclusions with the press and a broader audience. The Summer Palace Dialogue is scheduled annually in mid-September in Beijing, right before the Summer World Economic Forum in Dalian. The third annual Summer Palace Dialogue was held on September 12–13, 2011.
The Asian Leadership Conference (ALC) is an annual international conference hosted in Seoul, South Korea, by The Chosun Ilbo, a major Korean daily newspaper. The inaugural conference was in March 2005. The conference addresses important issues in Asia and the world. The conference hosted over one hundred and fifty speakers and over one thousand guests.
Gil Rémillard is a Canadian academic, university professor and politician.
The World Strategic Forum is an annual economic event organized by the International Economic Forum of the Americas since 2011.
The Conference of Montreal is an annual economic event organized by the International Economic Forum of the Americas (IEFA) since 1995.
The Toronto Global Forum (TGF) is an annual economic event organized by the International Economic Forum of the Americas since 2007.
Nicholas Rémillard is the President and chief executive officer of the International Economic Forum of the Americas (IEFA), which hosts three annual economic forums, the Conference of Montreal, the Toronto Global Forum and the World Strategic Forum, which is held in Miami, Florida.
Jean-François Bouchard Jean-Francois Bouchard is a lens-based visual artist whose photographic work has been exhibited in Montreal, New York, Tel Aviv, Toronto, Miami, and Paris. He is also co-founder of Sid Lee, the creative services agency he launched with Philippe Meunier in 1993. He later founded C2, a global platform and series of events exploring the intersection between creativity and commerce.
Monique Forget Leroux CC OQ is a Canadian businesswoman. From 2008 to 2016, she was chair of the board and chief executive officer of Desjardins Group.
