World Economic Forum | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-05-15

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Economic_Forum


00:02:29 1 History
00:08:01 2 Organization
00:10:34 2.1 Membership
00:12:08 3 Activities
00:12:17 3.1 Annual meeting in Davos
00:15:03 3.1.1 Participants
00:16:43 3.2 Summer annual meeting
00:17:46 3.3 Regional meetings
00:18:24 3.4 Young Global Leaders
00:19:01 3.5 Social Entrepreneurs
00:20:04 3.6 Research reports
00:22:11 3.7 Initiatives
00:27:15 3.8 Global Future Councils
00:28:09 4 Criticism
00:30:20 4.1 History of criticism
00:32:04 4.2 Participation of NGOs
00:33:33 4.3 Public cost of security
00:34:52 4.4 Private vs public meetings
00:36:16 4.5 Influence of financial supporters
00:36:56 4.6 Public Eye Awards
00:38:24 4.7 "Davos Man"
00:40:02 4.8 Gender debate
00:40:45 4.9 Stateless elitism erosion



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The World Economic Forum (WEF), based in Cologny-Geneva, Switzerland, was founded in 1971 as a not-for-profit organization. It was granted "other international body" status in January 2015 by the Swiss Federal Government under the Swiss Host-State Act (International Organization status requires multiple governments). The WEF's mission is cited as "committed to improving the state of the world by engaging business, political, academic, and other leaders of society to shape global, regional, and industry agendas".The WEF hosts an annual meeting at the end of January in Davos, a mountain resort in Graubünden, in the eastern Alps region of Switzerland. The meeting brings together some 2,500 business leaders, international political leaders, economists, celebrities and journalists for up to four days to discuss the most pressing issues facing the world. 
The organization also convenes some six to eight regional meetings each year in locations across Africa, East Asia and Latin America, and holds two further annual meetings in China, India and the United Arab Emirates. Beside meetings, the organization claims to provide a platform for leaders from all stakeholder groups from around the world – business, government and civil society – to come together. It also produces a series of reports and engages its members in sector-specific initiatives.There have been many other international conferences nicknamed with "Davos". However, the World Economic Forum objected the use of "Davos" in such contexts for any event not organised by them. This particular statement was issued on 22 October 2018, a day before the opening of 2018 Future Investment Initiative (nicknamed "Davos in the desert") organised by the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia.