WHO IS COMING TO DAVOS 2019 ?

Top political leaders

1. Ueli Maurer, President of the Swiss Confederation 2019 and Federal Councillor of Finance of Switzerland 
2. Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister of Japan
3. Jair Bolsonaro, President of Brazil 
4. Angela Merkel, Federal Chancellor of Germany 
5. Wang Qishan, Vice-President of the People’s Republic of China 
6. Giuseppe Conte, Prime Minister of Italy 
7. Pedro Sanchez, Prime Minister of Spain 
8. Barham Salih, President of Iraq 
9. Mohammad Ashraf Ghani, President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan 
10. Sebastian Kurz, Federal Chancellor of Austria 
11. Ivan Duque, President of Colombia 
12. Abiy Ahmed, Prime Minster of Ethiopia 
13. Leo Varadkar, Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland 
14. Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel 
15. Faiez Al Serrag, Prime Minister of Libya 
16. Mark Rutte, Prime Minister of the Netherlands 
17. Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister of New Zealand 
18. Erna Solberg, Prime Minister of Norway 
19. Rami Hamdallah, Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority 
20. Martin Alberto Vizcarra Cornejo, President of Peru 
21. Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda 
22. Cyril M. Ramaphosa, Prime Minister of South Africa 
23. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, President of Uganda 
24. Nguyen Xuan Phuc, Prime Minister of Viet Nam
25. Emmerson Mnangagwa, President of Zimbabwe.

Absent

1. Theresa May, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
2. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States of America
3. Emmanuel Macron, President of France
4. Xi Jinping, President of China
5. Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India

Leaders from International Organizations 

1. Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations 
2. Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights 
3. Patricia Espinosa Cantellano, Executive Secretary, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) 
4. Kristalina Georgieva, Chief Executive Officer, World Bank 
5. Filippo Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees 
6. Roberto Azevedo, Director-General, World Trade Organization (WTO) 
7. Angel Gurría, Secretary-General, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) 
8. Christine Lagarde, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund (IMF)  
9. Jens Stoltenberg, Secretary-General, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

Leaders from civil society 

1. Yasunobu Aihara, General Secretary, Japanese Trade Union Confederation (Jtuc-Rengo) 
2. Sharan Burrow, General Secretary, International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) 
3. Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director, Oxfam International 
4. Jennifer Morgan, Executive Director, Greenpeace International 
5. Denis Mukwege, Founder, Panzi Foundation, 2018 Nobel Peace Laureate; 
6. Kenneth Roth, Executive Director, Human Rights Watch 
7. Marco Lambertini, Director-General, WWF International 
8. Delia Ferreira Rubio, Chair, Transparency International 
9. Maria Ressa, Chief Executive Officer and Executive Editor, Rappler.com 
10. Elizabeth H. Shuler, Secretary-Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer, American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) 
11. Peter Sands, Executive Director, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GF) 
12. Debbie Stothard, Secretary-General International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH)
13. Luca Visentini, General Secretary, European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC)

In addition to record participation from the public sector, the private sector will be represented by more than 1,700 leaders. Civil society is represented by almost 900 leaders from NGOs, social entrepreneurs, academia, labour organizations, faith-based and religious groups and media. Britain’s Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge, is attending to discuss his work on mental health, a key topic this year.