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Global Leaders for Tomorrow was a leadership development program led by the World Economic Forum. It was the predecessor to the Forum of Young Global Leaders.
In 1992, Klaus Schwab launched the Global Leaders for Tomorrow program under the auspices of the World Economic Forum.[1][2]
This first iteration was shut down after the class of 2003. According to economist Richard Werner, who was selected in 2003, the program was closed down and rebooted as a more controllable group because there started to be too many people asking difficult questions in the forum.[3]
In a 2019 talk with Carlos Alvarado Quesada, Klaus Schwab mentioned that Vladimir Putin had participated in the Young Leader program, presumably during his St. Petersburg years in the 1990s.[4] While this is not completely confirmed from other sources, further evidence continues to emerge suggesting this is the case. Another video emerged of Schwab naming Putin among a list of other world leaders including Angela Merkel and Justin Trudeau, while speaking at the John F. Kennedy School of Government in 2017.[5]
In January 2021, Putin presented a keynote address at the World Economic Forum, where he recalled how he first met Schwab in 1992 and since then had regularly attended events organized by the WEF.[6][7]
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A Partner in Shaping History. (2010). World Economic Forum. https://web.archive.org/web/20230821064210/https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_First40Years_Book_2010.pdf ↩︎
ISRAEL21c Staff. (2015, September 14). Israeli joins Bill Gates and Tony Blair as one of 100 Global Leaders for Tomorrow. ISRAEL21c. https://web.archive.org/web/20150914181822/http://www.israel21c.org/israeli-joins-bill-gates-and-tony-blair-as-one-of-100-global-leaders-for-tomorrow/ ↩︎
The Last American Vagabond. (2021, August). Richard Werner Interview - Covid Measures and the Central Controls over the Economy. Super U. https://web.archive.org/web/20220628054118/https://superu.net/video/926eb21f-fa07-4f56-bb47-dd9d0f5f197e/ ↩︎
Phoenix. (2020, January 17). “Das Forum” (Bonus): Klaus Schwab trifft Costa Ricas Präsident Quesada. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0pMGflp3aE&t=79s ↩︎
Maajid أبو عمّار (@MaajidNawaz). (2022, January 25). Head of the World Economic Forum Klaus Schwab at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government in 2017: “What we are very proud of, is that we penetrate the global cabinets of countries with our WEF Young Global Leaders… like Trudeau” [Tweet]. Twitter. http://archive.today/2022.01.25-191602/https://twitter.com/MaajidNawaz/status/1485982015048622090?s=20 ↩︎
Waggaman, R. (2021, November 8). Myth vs. Reality in COVID Russia. Anti-Empire. http://archive.today/2021.12.27-192636/https://anti-empire.com/myth-vs-reality-in-covid-russia/ ↩︎
Russia Briefing. (2021, January 28). Russian President Putin’s Speech At The World Economic Forum: Complete English Translation. Russia Briefing News. http://archive.today/2022.03.28-030420/https://www.russia-briefing.com/news/russian-president-putin-s-speech-at-the-world-economic-forum-complete-english-translation.html/ ↩︎
Class of 1993. World Economic Forum. Retrieved December 27, 2021, from https://web.archive.org/web/20131203013754/http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GLT_ClassOf1993.pdf ↩︎
Class of 1994. (1994). World Economic Forum. https://web.archive.org/web/20160816174540/http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GLT_ClassOf1994.pdf ↩︎
Class of 1995. (1995). World Economic Forum. https://web.archive.org/web/20140915002450/http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GLT_ClassOf1995.pdf ↩︎
Class of 1996. (1996). World Economic Forum. https://web.archive.org/web/20140915000416/http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GLT_ClassOf1996.pdf ↩︎
Class of 1997. World Economic Forum. Retrieved January 11, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20140914231237/http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GLT_ClassOf1997.pdf ↩︎
Class of 1998. World Economic Forum. Retrieved January 11, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20140914230101/http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GLT_ClassOf1998.pdf ↩︎
Class of 1999. World Economic Forum. Retrieved January 11, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20140914233005/http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GLT_ClassOf1999.pdf ↩︎
Class of 2000. World Economic Forum. Retrieved March 19, 2013, from https://web.archive.org/web/20130319042241/http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GLT_ClassOf2000.pdf ↩︎
Class of 2001. World Economic Forum. Retrieved September 15, 2014, from https://web.archive.org/web/20140915001916/http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GLT_ClassOf2001.pdf ↩︎
Class of 2002. World Economic Forum. Retrieved July 23, 2012, from https://web.archive.org/web/20120723153114/http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GLT_ClassOf2002.pdf ↩︎
Class of Global Leaders for Tomorrow 2003 - Die Kandidaten im Überblick. (2002, March 12). Handelsblatt. http://archive.today/2021.08.31-075242/https://www.handelsblatt.com/archiv/class-of-global-leaders-for-tomorrow-2003-die-kandidaten-im-ueberblick/2213220.html?ticket=ST-2682057-NcHgbyuAHv6pBRK5RJIG-ap3 ↩︎