The meeting will provide a crucial space to focus on the fundamental principles driving trust, including transparency, consistency and accountability.

 

On the theme: “Rebuilding Trust", the annual meeting will also welcome over 100 governments, all major international organisations, 1000 forum’s partners, as well as civil society leaders, experts, youth representatives, social entrepreneurs, and news outlets.

 

The World Economic Forum is the international organization for public-private co-operation.

 

The forum engages the foremost political, business, cultural and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas.

 

It was established in 1971 as a not-for-profit foundation and is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. It is independent, impartial and not tied to any special interests.

 

The forum strives in all its efforts to demonstrate entrepreneurship in the global public interest while upholding the highest standards of governance. Moral and intellectual integrity is at the heart of everything it does.

 

The forum activities are shaped by a unique institutional culture founded on the stakeholder theory, which asserts that an organization is accountable to all parts of society.

 

The institution carefully blends and balances the best of many kinds of organizations, from both the public and private sectors, international organisations and academic institutions.

 

“We believe that progress happens by bringing together people from all walks of life who have the drive and the influence to make positive change”, according to a statement from the organizers.