WEF Young Global Leaders — Complete Alphabetical Alumni Reference
WEF Young Global Leaders — Complete Alphabetical Alumni Reference
[edit | edit source]Consolidated alphabetical reference of all documented WEF GL4T and YGL alumni. The WEF alumni database at younggloballeaders.org is the authoritative primary source. The total community numbers approximately 1,400 individuals; this reference captures the most significantly documented alumni.
| Name |
Country |
Year |
Position
|
| Al-Ibrahim, Faisal |
Saudi Arabia |
2020 |
Minister of Economy and Planning
|
| Allen, Paul |
United States |
1995 |
Co-founder, Microsoft (died 2018)
|
| Altman, Sam |
United States |
2015 |
CEO, OpenAI
|
| Alvarado Quesada, Carlos |
Costa Rica |
2019 |
President of Costa Rica, 2018–2022
|
| Al Zeyoudi, Thani bin Ahmed |
UAE |
2006 |
Minister of State for Foreign Trade, UAE
|
| Aminath, Shauna |
Maldives |
2020 |
Minister of Environment, Maldives
|
| Ardern, Jacinda |
New Zealand |
2014 |
Prime Minister, 2017–2023
|
| Attal, Gabriel |
France |
2022 (est.) |
Prime Minister of France, 2024
|
| Azhar, Hammad |
Pakistan |
2020 |
Minister of Energy, Pakistan
|
| Name |
Country |
Year |
Position
|
| Baerbock, Annalena |
Germany |
2020 |
Foreign Minister; Green Party co-chair
|
| Bahr, Daniel |
Germany |
(est.) |
Federal Minister of Health, 2011–2013
|
| Bakhtadze, Mamuka |
Georgia |
2019 |
Prime Minister of Georgia, 2018–2019
|
| Ballmer, Steven |
United States |
1994 |
CEO, Microsoft, 2000–2014
|
| Bancel, Stéphane |
France/US |
2021 |
CEO, Moderna
|
| Barroso, José Manuel |
Portugal/EU |
1993 |
President, European Commission, 2004–2014
|
| Beech, Terry |
Canada |
2021 |
Member of Parliament, Canada
|
| Benioff, Marc |
United States |
2005 |
Founder and CEO, Salesforce
|
| Bezos, Jeff |
United States |
1998 |
Founder, Amazon; founder, Blue Origin
|
| Blair, Tony |
United Kingdom |
1993 |
Prime Minister, UK, 1997–2007
|
| Bragg, Andrew |
Australia |
2021 |
Senator, Liberal Party of Australia
|
| Branson, Richard |
United Kingdom |
1993 |
Founder, Virgin Group
|
| Brin, Sergey |
United States |
2002 |
Co-founder, Google / Alphabet
|
| Brown, Gordon |
United Kingdom |
1993 |
Prime Minister, UK, 2007–2010
|
| Bruderer-Wyss, Pascale |
Switzerland |
2009 |
President, Swiss National Council, 2019–2020
|
| Busque, Leah |
United States |
2014 |
Founder, TaskRabbit
|
| Name |
Country |
Year |
Position
|
| Camara, Kamissa |
Mali |
2019 |
Minister of Digital Economy, Mali
|
| Chappatte, Patrick |
Switzerland |
2006 |
International political cartoonist
|
| Cohen, Jared |
United States |
2014 |
CEO, Google Jigsaw; former State Department
|
| De Croo, Alexander |
Belgium |
2018 |
Prime Minister of Belgium, 2020–2024
|
| Dmitriev, Kirill |
Russia |
2009 |
Head, Russian Direct Investment Fund
|
| Doepfner, Mathias |
Germany |
2001 |
CEO, Axel Springer
|
| Dorji, Ugyen |
Bhutan |
2020 |
Minister of Home Affairs, Bhutan
|
| Name |
Country |
Year |
Position
|
| Federer, Roger |
Switzerland |
2010 |
Professional tennis; UNICEF Ambassador
|
| Feigl-Ding, Eric |
United States |
(est.) |
COVID-19 epidemiologist-commentator
|
| Filo, David |
United States |
1997 |
Co-founder, Yahoo
|
| Freeland, Chrystia |
Canada |
2000 |
Deputy PM and Finance Minister, 2019–2025
|
| Name |
Country |
Year |
Position
|
| Gates, Bill |
United States |
1993 |
Co-founder, Microsoft; Gates Foundation
|
| Gebbia, Joe |
United States |
2016 |
Co-founder, Airbnb
|
| Gillard, Julia |
Australia |
(varies) |
Prime Minister of Australia, 2010–2013
|
| Gould, Karina |
Canada |
2020 |
Minister, Families, Children and Social Development
|
| Graf, Felix R. |
Switzerland |
2007 |
CEO, NZZ Media Group
|
| Guaidó, Juan |
Venezuela |
2019 |
Self-declared President, 2019–2023
|
| Hague, William |
United Kingdom |
1994 |
Foreign Secretary, 2010–2014
|
| Hanson-Young, Sarah |
Australia |
2016 |
Senator, Australian Greens
|
| Howard, Jeremy |
United States |
(est.) |
Founder, "Masks for All"
|
| Hurley, Chad |
United States |
2009 |
Co-founder, YouTube
|
| Hussen, Ahmed |
Canada |
2020 |
Minister of Housing and Diversity, Canada
|
| Name |
Country |
Year |
Position
|
| Karp, David |
United States |
2014 |
Founder, Tumblr
|
| Koc, Ali Y. |
Turkey |
2005 |
Chairman, Koc Holding
|
| Kubicki, Wolfgang |
Germany |
1993 |
FDP Vice Chairman; Bundestag VP
|
| Kurz, Sebastian |
Austria |
2017 (est.) |
Chancellor of Austria, 2017–2021
|
| Name |
Country |
Year |
Position
|
| Ma, Jack |
China |
2001 |
Founder, Alibaba; co-founder, Alipay
|
| Macri, Mauricio |
Argentina |
(varies) |
President of Argentina, 2015–2019
|
| Macron, Emmanuel |
France |
2016 |
President of France, 2017–present
|
| Maher, Katherine |
United States |
2019 |
CEO Wikimedia; CEO NPR; CEO Mozilla
|
| Marin, Sanna |
Finland |
2006 |
Prime Minister of Finland, 2019–2023
|
| Markwalder, Christa |
Switzerland |
2011 |
President, Swiss National Council, 2015–2016
|
| Maudet, Pierre |
Switzerland |
2013 |
Former Geneva State Councillor
|
| Merkel, Angela |
Germany |
1993 |
Chancellor of Germany, 2005–2021
|
| Meta, Ilir |
Albania |
2002 |
President of Albania, 2017–2022
|
| Metzler, Ruth |
Switzerland |
2002 |
Former Swiss Federal Councillor
|
| Miliband, Ed |
United Kingdom |
2008 |
Energy Secretary 2024–; Labour leader 2010–2015
|
| Mohib, Hamdullah |
Afghanistan |
2015 |
National Security Advisor, Afghanistan
|
| Musk, Elon (nominated; did not participate) |
South Africa/US |
2008 (nom.) |
CEO Tesla; CEO SpaceX; owner X
|
| Newsom, Gavin |
United States |
2005 |
Governor of California, 2019–present
|
| Name |
Country |
Year |
Position
|
| O'Neil, Clare |
Australia |
2019 |
Minister for Home Affairs and Cyber Security
|
| Ohlsson, Birgitta |
Sweden |
(est.) |
Minister for EU Affairs, Sweden, 2010–2014
|
| Ollila, Jorma |
Finland |
1993 |
Chairman, Shell Oil; CEO Nokia
|
| Omidyar, Pierre |
United States |
1999 |
Co-founder, eBay; Omidyar Network
|
| Orbán, Viktor |
Hungary |
1993 |
Prime Minister of Hungary, 2010–present
|
| Özdemir, Cem |
Germany |
2002 |
Federal Minister for Food and Agriculture
|
| Page, Larry |
United States |
2002 |
Co-founder, Google / Alphabet
|
| Patel, Ricken |
Canada |
2010 |
Founder, Avaaz
|
| Putin, Vladimir |
Russia |
1993 |
President of Russia, 2000–2008; 2012–present
|
| Name |
Country |
Year |
Position
|
| Rickli, Natalie |
Switzerland |
2012 |
Director of Health, Canton of Zurich
|
| Rohner, Marcel |
Switzerland |
2003 |
CEO, UBS, 2007–2009
|
| Rösler, Philipp |
Germany |
(est.) |
Minister of Health; WEF Managing Director 2014
|
| Saarikko, Annika |
Finland |
2019 |
Deputy Prime Minister; Finance Minister
|
| Sachs, Jeffrey |
United States |
(est.) |
Chair, Lancet COVID Commission; Columbia economist
|
| Sahlin, Mona |
Sweden |
2011 |
Party Leader, Swedish Social Democrats, 2007–2011
|
| Sandberg, Sheryl |
United States |
2007 |
COO, Facebook / Meta, 2008–2022
|
| Sarkozy, Nicolas |
France |
1993 |
President of France, 2007–2012
|
| Schmidt, Eric |
United States |
1997 |
CEO, Google, 2001–2011; Chairman, Alphabet
|
| Shah, Rajiv |
United States |
(varies) |
President, Rockefeller Foundation
|
| Spahn, Jens |
Germany |
2016 |
Federal Minister of Health, Germany, 2018–2021
|
| Springman, Sarah |
UK/Switzerland |
1994/2015 |
Rector, ETH Zurich, 2015–2022
|
| Sridhar, Devi |
UK/US |
2020 |
Chair Global Public Health, Edinburgh; COVID commentator
|
| Sud, Anjali |
United States |
2019 |
CEO, Vimeo
|
| Name |
Country |
Year |
Position
|
| Telford, Katie |
Canada |
(varies) |
Chief of Staff to PM Trudeau
|
| Thiam, Tidjane |
Ivory Coast/Switzerland |
1997 |
CEO, Credit Suisse, 2015–2020
|
| Thiel, Peter |
United States |
2007 |
Co-founder, PayPal; founder, Palantir
|
| Trudeau, Justin |
Canada |
2005 (disputed) |
Prime Minister of Canada, 2015–2025
|
| van Gennip, Karien |
Netherlands |
2008 |
Minister of Social Affairs and Employment
|
| Varadkar, Leo |
Ireland |
(varies) |
PM, Ireland, 2017–2020; 2022–2024
|
| von der Leyen, Ursula |
Germany |
(disputed) |
President, European Commission, 2019–present
|
| Name |
Country |
Year |
Position
|
| Wales, Jimmy |
United States |
2007 |
Co-founder, Wikipedia
|
| Wen, Leana |
United States |
(varies) |
CNN medical analyst; former Planned Parenthood president
|
| Westerwelle, Guido |
Germany |
1996 |
Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor (died 2016)
|
| Williams, Evan |
United States |
2010 |
Co-founder, Twitter; co-founder, Medium
|
| Wolfe, Nathan |
United States |
(est.) |
EcoHealth Alliance; Global Viral; Metabiota
|
| Wuffli, Peter |
Switzerland |
1994 |
CEO, UBS
|
| Wulff, Christian |
Germany |
1994 |
President of Germany, 2010–2012
|
| Zelensky, Volodymyr |
Ukraine |
2018 |
President of Ukraine, 2019–present
|
| Zennstrom, Niklas |
Sweden |
2005 |
Co-founder, Skype; founder, Atomico
|
| Zients, Jeffrey |
United States |
2021 |
White House COVID-19 Coordinator; Chief of Staff 2023–2024
|
| Zuckerberg, Mark |
United States |
2009 |
Founder and CEO, Facebook / Meta
|
| zu Guttenberg, Karl-Theodor |
Germany |
2009 |
Federal Minister of Defence, Germany, 2009–2011
|
