Regional meetings
Every year some ten regional meetings take place, enabling close contact between corporate business leaders, local government leaders and NGOs. Meetings are held in Africa, East Asia, Latin America and the Middle East The mix of hosting countries varies from year to year, but China and India have hosted consistently over the past decade.
In 2005 the Forum has established the community of Young Global Leaders, successor to the Global Leaders of Tomorrow consisting of under 40 year old leaders from all around the world and a myriad of disciplines and sectors. The leaders engage in the ‘2030 Initiative’ - the creation of an action plan for how to reach the vision of what the world could be like in 2030. Among the Young Global Leaders are:[29] Among the Young Global Leaders are Shai Agassi, Anousheh Ansari, Maria Consuelo Araujo, Sergey Brin, Tyler Brûlé, Patrick Chappatte, Olafur Eliasson, Diego Frausto Rahul Gandhi, Crown Prince Haakon of Norway, Silvana Koch-Mehrin, Tariq Krim, Irshad Manji, Princess Mathilde of Belgium, Aditya Mittal, Gavin Newsom, Larry Page, Andrea Sanke, Anoushka Shankar, Peter Thiel, Karim Meïssa Wade, Jimmy Wales, Niklas Zennström et al. New members are selected on a yearly basis and the Forum of Young Global Leaders will count 1111 members