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Forum of Young Global Leaders
The Young Global Leaders, or Forum of Young Global Leaders, is a nominally independent, non-profit organization launched by Klaus Schwab in 2004.1)
The predecessor to the program operated from 1993-2003 as the Global Leaders for Tomorrow.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)
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Martinet, S. (2011, March 9). Mashable CEO Pete Cashmore Earns World Economic Forum’s Leadership Award. Mashable. https://archive.ph/XJ6BL
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ISRAEL21c Staff. (2015, September 14). Israeli joins Bill Gates and Tony Blair as one of 100 Global Leaders for Tomorrow. ISRAEL21c; Wayback Machine. 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/
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The Last American Vagabond. (2021, August). Richard Werner Interview - Covid Measures and the Central Controls over the Economy. Super U. https://superu.net/video/926eb21f-fa07-4f56-bb47-dd9d0f5f197e/