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World Economic Forum 2026
US President Donald Trump volition be the World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting successful Davos aboriginal this month, accompanied by astatine slightest 5 Cabinet members, arsenic planetary leaders stitchery against the backdrop of rising geopolitical tensions and economical uncertainty.
The five-day acme volition statesman connected January 18 successful the Swiss skis edifice town, organisers announced connected Tuesday.As per quality bureau PTI, astatine slightest 64 heads of authorities oregon authorities are expected to be the yearly meeting, with six of the 7 G7 nations represented by their apical leadership. China and Pakistan volition besides nonstop ample delegations. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is among the leaders expected to beryllium present, with the forum acceptable to absorption intimately connected the concern successful Ukraine, the warfare successful Gaza and developments successful Latin America, including Venezuela.WEF President and CEO Borge Brende said the gathering comes astatine a clip of bonzer planetary strain, describing the existent geopolitical concern arsenic the astir analyzable since 1945. Dialogue is not a luxury successful times of uncertainty, but an urgent necessity today, helium said, underlining the forum’s taxable of fostering a tone of dialogue."At a captious juncture for planetary practice - marked by profound geoeconomic and technological translation - this year's Annual Meeting volition beryllium 1 of our astir consequential.
With historical levels of participation, it volition supply a abstraction for an unparalleled premix of planetary leaders and innovators to enactment done and look beyond divisions, summation penetration into a fast-shifting planetary landscape, and beforehand solutions to today's and tomorrow's biggest and astir pressing challenges," helium added.Trump is expected to pb the largest-ever US delegation to Davos. According to PTI, those accompanying him see Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Energy Secretary Chris Wright and US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer. As per quality bureau AFP, Steve Witkoff, Trump’s peculiar envoy for the Middle East and Ukraine, volition besides attend. Trump had addressed Davos via video past year, but his in-person information this clip follows a twelvemonth marked by assertive tariff measures that reshaped planetary commercialized dynamics.India volition besides diagnostic prominently astatine the acme with a beardown governmental and firm presence. As per PTI, astatine slightest 4 Union ministers — Ashwini Vaishnaw, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Pralhad Joshi and K Ram Mohan Naidu — are expected, on with six main ministers, including Maharashtra’s Devendra Fadnavis, Andhra Pradesh’s N Chandrababu Naidu, Assam’s Himanta Biswa Sarma, Madhya Pradesh’s Mohan Yadav, Telangana’s A Revanth Reddy and Jharkhand’s Hemant Soren. Karnataka lawman main curate DK Shivakumar is besides apt to attend.More than 100 Indian CEOs are expected successful Davos, including Reliance Industries president Mukesh Ambani, Tata Sons president N Chandrasekaran, Bajaj Group’s Sanjiv Bajaj, Bharti Group’s Sunil Bharti Mittal and Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani, according to PTI. Indian leaders volition instrumentality portion successful sheet discussions, including 1 examining whether India tin go the world’s third-largest economy, too holding bilateral meetings and attending India-focused events connected the sidelines.Overall, the WEF expects much than 3,000 participants from implicit 130 countries, including implicit 1,700 concern leaders and a grounds fig of governmental leaders, on with representatives from civilian society, planetary fiscal institutions and exertion companies, reinforcing Davos’s relation arsenic a cardinal level for planetary dialogue.
