Going after a younger crowd now; https://wikispooks.com/wiki/WEF/Global_Shapers
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/World_Economic_Forum
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Young_Global_Leaders
Bill Gates and Angela Merkel were "Global Leader for Tomorrow" (which became "Young Global Leaders") in the early days. Both in the class of '93. https://wikispooks.com/wiki/WEF/Global_Leaders_for_Tomorrow/1993 (list of names is on right side of page)
Thank you for posting this
Apparently the group has sometimes put people on the list not to honor them but to smear them...and not always with permission:
Ramaswamy slapped the organization with a lawsuit in a Cincinnati, Ohio court in April after it failed to remove his name from its 2021 list of Young Global Leaders even though he declined the nomination to the list and requested multiple times for them to remove his name.
...“Two years ago, WEF tried to throw false bait by naming me a ‘Young Global Leader’ when I explicitly rejected their ridiculous award. They repeatedly failed to remove my name despite escalating demands. So I sued them. And we just succeeded,” Ramaswamy wrote on X (formerly Twitter) Tuesday....