Most-Featured Speakers at Davos 2026

Most-Featured Speakers appearing at World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2026.

People

• Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General (World Health Organization)
• Fatih Birol, Executive Director (International Energy Agency)
• Peter Vanham, Editor at Large (Fortune)
• Severin Schwan, Chairman (Roche)
• George Vradenburg, Chairman (Davos Alzheimer's Collaborative)
• Tharman Shanmugaratnam, President of the Republic of Singapore (Singapore)
• Guy Parmelin, President of the Swiss Confederation 2026 (Switzerland)
• Ian Bremmer, Founder & President (Eurasia Group)
• Yoshua Bengio, Full Professor / Founder (Université de Montréal / Mila)
• Bart De Wever, Prime Minister of Belgium (Belgium)
• Nicole Büttner, Founder & CEO (Merantix Momentum)
• Rebeca Grynspan, Secretary-General (UNCTAD)
• May Habib, CEO & Co-Founder (Writer)
• Steve Suarez, CEO (HorizonX)
• Rudy Provoost, Chairman (VOKA)
• Kenneth Cukier, Deputy Executive Editor (The Economist)
• Lucy Perez, Senior Partner (McKinsey & Company)
• Vas Narasimhan, CEO (Novartis)
• Joe Ucuzoglu, Global CEO (Deloitte)
• Nomzamo Mbatha, Goodwill Ambassador (UNHCR)
• Andrew Ng, Founder (DeepLearning.AI)
• will.i.am, Founder & CEO (FYI.AI)
• Andreas Krause, Professor of Computer Science (ETH Zürich)
• Francine Lacqua, Anchor & Editor-at-Large (Bloomberg)
• Spriha Srivastava, Executive Editor (CNBC International)
• Yann LeCun, Executive Chairman, Advanced Machine Intelligence (Advanced Machine Intelligence)
• Daniel Skovronsky, Chief Scientific Officer (Eli Lilly and Company)
• Alex Manson, CEO (SC Ventures)
• Larry Fink, Chairman & CEO (BlackRock)
• Joanna Shields, Founder & CEO (Responsible AI Future Foundation)
• Joël Mesot, President (ETH Zürich)
• Helene Budliger Artieda, State Secretary for Economic Affairs (SECO) (Switzerland (SECO))
• Yejin Choi, Professor of Computer Science / Senior Fellow (Stanford HAI)
• Marc Henauer, Official, National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC Switzerland)
• Vinz Koller, Senior Strategist (Jobs for the Future)
• Rolf Rauschenbach, Director, Global Digital Collaboration (Global Digital Collaboration)
• James Landay, Co-Director, Stanford HAI (Stanford HAI)
• Doreen Bogdan-Martin, Secretary-General (ITU)
• Fiona Marshall, President, Biomedical Research (Novartis)
• Jamieson Greer, United States Trade Representative (United States)
• Al Gore, Former US Vice President / Chairman (Generation Investment Management)
• Daniela Rus, Director, MIT CSAIL (MIT)
• Judith Wiese, Chief People & Sustainability Officer (Siemens)
• Andy Hock, SVP Product & Strategy (Cerebras Systems)
• Laura Modiano, Startups Lead EMEA (OpenAI)
• Alex Ilic, Executive Director, ETH AI Center (ETH AI Center)
• Mallik Rao, Chief Technology & Enterprise Officer (Telefónica Germany)
• Pravina Ladva, Group Chief Digital & Technology Officer (Swiss Re)
• Alexander Mayer, Executive (J.P. Morgan)
• Holger Kneisel, Partner (KPMG)
• Alexander Stubb, President (Republic of Finland)
• He Lifeng, Vice Premier (People's Republic of China)
• Samantha Cristoforetti, Astronaut (European Space Agency)
• Philip Johnston, Co-Founder & CEO (Starcloud)
• Grégoire Ribordy, Executive (IonQ)
• Nathan Baker, Director, Partnerships for Chemistry & Materials (Microsoft)
• Evelyne Yehudit Bischof, Professor / Physician (Harvard Medical School)
• Olivier Oullier, Professor / President (Mohammed bin Zayed University of AI)
• Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, President (Arab Republic of Egypt)
• Adrian Locher, Founder & Managing Partner (Merantix Capital)
• Andrey Khusid, Founder & CEO (Miro)
• Deepak Pathak, Founder & CEO (Skild AI)
• Rafael Mariano Grossi, Director General (IAEA)
• Friedrich Merz, Federal Chancellor (Federal Republic of Germany)
• Navrina Singh, Founder & CEO (Credo AI)
• Prabowo Subianto, President (Republic of Indonesia)
• Thomas Hofmann, Professor of Data Analytics (Technical University of Munich)
• Talal Al Kaissi, Executive (G42 & Core42)
• Varun Sivaram, Founder & CEO (Emerald AI)
• Francesco Sciortino, Co-Founder & CEO (Proxima Fusion)
• Isaac Herzog, President (State of Israel)
• Ahmad al-Sharaa, President (Syrian Arab Republic)
• Donald Trump, President of the United States (United States)
• Emmanuel Macron, President of France (France)
• Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine (Ukraine)
• Florian Schütz, Director (National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), Switzerland)
• Eric Schmidt, Former CEO & Chairman of Google; Chair & CEO of Relativity Space (Relativity Space)
• Maria Flynn, CEO (Jobs for the Future)
• Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada (Canada)
• Adena Friedman, Chair & CEO (Nasdaq)
• Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission (European Commission)
• Javier Milei, President of Argentina (Argentina)
• Juan Lavista Ferres, Chief Data Scientist & Corporate VP (Microsoft)
• Megan Smith, CEO / Former US CTO (shift7)
• Børge Brende, President (World Economic Forum)
• David Rubenstein, Co-Founder & Co-Chairman (Carlyle Group)
• Steve Pagliuca, Senior Advisor (Bain Capital)
• Sally Kornbluth, President (MIT)
• Dario Amodei, Co-Founder & CEO (Anthropic)
• Demis Hassabis, Co-Founder & CEO (Google DeepMind)
• Zanny Minton Beddoes, Editor-in-Chief (The Economist)
• Eric Xing, President (Mohamed bin Zayed University of AI)
• Jensen Huang, Founder & CEO (NVIDIA)
• Satya Nadella, Chairman & CEO (Microsoft)
• Jamie Dimon, Chairman & CEO (JPMorgan Chase)
• Elon Musk, CEO (Tesla / SpaceX / xAI)
• Alex Karp, Co-Founder & CEO (Palantir Technologies)
• Sarah Friar, Chief Financial Officer (OpenAI)
• Randall Lane, Chief Content Officer (Forbes)
• James Manyika, Senior Vice-President (Google)
• Morten Wierod, CEO (ABB)
• Callista Gingrich, U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland (United States)
• Vasant Narasimhan, CEO (Novartis)
• Marta Kos, Commissioner for Enlargement (European Commission)
• Bart Sap, CEO (Umicore)
• Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli, President & CEO (ONE Campaign)
• Mohammed Saif Al-Sowaidi, CEO (Qatar Investment Authority)
• Steven Bartlett, Entrepreneur & Podcast Host (The Diary of a CEO)
• Nasser Al-Khelaïfi, Chairman, Qatar Sports Investments; President, PSG (Qatar Sports Investments)
• Cherie Blair, Founder & Chair (Omnia Strategy / Cherie Blair Foundation)
• Bettina Orlopp, CEO (Commerzbank)
• Peter Lee, President (Microsoft Research)
• Dan Skovronsky, Chief Scientific & Product Officer (Eli Lilly)
• Patrick J. Kennedy, Founder (The Kennedy Forum)
• Elisabeth Staudinger, Managing Board Chair (Siemens Healthineers)
• David Ko, CEO (Calm)
• Smriti Zubin Irani, Founder & Chairperson (Alliance for Global Good)
• Gavin Newsom, Governor of California (California)
• Ben Smith, Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief (Semafor)
• Reed Albergotti, Technology Editor (Semafor)
• Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, CEO Editor (Semafor)
• Brian Moynihan, Chair & CEO (Bank of America)
• Arthur Mensch, Co-Founder & CEO (Mistral AI)
• Zak Brown, CEO (McLaren Racing)
• Ina Fried, Chief Technology Correspondent (Axios)
• Mike Allen, Co-Founder & Executive Editor (Axios)
• Mark Turrell, Founder (unDavos)
• Harini Amarasuriya, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (Sri Lanka)
• Penny Low, Founder & President (Social Innovation Park)
• Rory Bremner, Satirist & Impressionist
• Matthias Lüfkens, Founder (Davos Digital Forum)
• Seamon Chan, Founding Partner (Palm Drive Capital)
• Torbjørn Bull Jenssen, CEO (K33)
• Chief Biraci Nixiwaka, Indigenous Leader, Yawanawá people
• Dr. Katie Caves, Director, CEMETS; Chair of Education Systems (ETH Zurich)
• Bridget Gainer, Chief Public Affairs Officer (Aon)
• Sarah Steinberg, Head of Global Public Policy Partnerships (LinkedIn)
• Dr. Martina Hirayama, State Secretary, Swiss Secretariat for Education, Research, and Innovation (Swiss Confederation (SERI))
• Carmen Walker Späh, Government Councillor (Canton of Zurich)
• Benoît Revaz, Director (Swiss Federal Office of Energy)
• Alexandre Fasel, State Secretary (Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, Switzerland)
• Gina Domanig, CEO Managing Partner (Emerald Technology Ventures)
• Daniel Jaeggi, President and Co-Founder (Mercuria Energy)
• Karen Hitschke, CEO (Building Bridges Foundation)
• Josie Lianna Kaye, CEO & Founder (Trust Works)
• Tim Radjy, CEO & Founder (AlphaMundi)
• John Martinis, Professor Emeritus; Nobel Laureate (Physics, 2025) (University of California Santa Barbara)
• Jimmy Wales, Co-Founder (Wikipedia / Wikimedia Foundation)
• Lisa Monaco, President, Global Affairs (Microsoft)
• Hugh Brady, President (Imperial College London)
• Farnam Jahanian, President (Carnegie Mellon University)
• Johan Rockström, Director (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research)
• Lutz Hegemann, President, Global Health & Swiss Country Affairs (Novartis)
• Giovanni Caforio, Board Chair (Novartis)
• Ann Aerts, Head (Novartis Foundation)
• Maria Leptin, President (European Research Council (ERC))
• Alyson Shontell Lombardi, Editor-in-Chief (Fortune)
• Alexi Robichaux, Co-Founder & CEO (BetterUp)
• Christian Ehler, Member of the European Parliament (European Parliament (Germany))
• Lise Korsten, President (African Academy of Sciences)
• Kamila Markram, CEO & Co-Founder (Frontiers)
• Henry Markram, Co-Founder (INAIT / Open Brain Institute / Frontiers)
• Arunima Malik, Professor (University of Sydney)
• Hélène Huby, Founder & CEO (The Exploration Company)
• Dylan Taylor, Chairman & CEO (Voyager Technologies)
• John Gedmark, CEO (Astranis)
• Lara Abrash, US Chair (Deloitte)
• Josef Aschbacher, Director General (European Space Agency (ESA))
• Nathalie Fontanet, Conseillère d'état / Finance Minister (Canton of Geneva)
• Audrey Leuba, Rector (Vice-Rector) (University of Geneva (UNIGE))
• Oana-Silvia Toiu, Minister of Foreign Affairs (Romania)
• Philippe Aghion, Professor of Economics (Collège de France / London School of Economics)
• Sir Christopher Pissarides, Professor (Nobel Laureate, Economics 2010) (London School of Economics)
• Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, President (EPFL) (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL))
• Marilyne Andersen, Director General (GESDA (Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator))
• John Arne Rottingen, CEO (Wellcome Trust)
• Michiel Scheffer, President of the Board (European Innovation Council (EIC))
• Elica Kyoseva, Director of Quantum Computing (NVIDIA)
• Barry Sanders, Scientific Director (Quantum City, University of Calgary)
• Enrica Porcari, Chief Information Officer (CERN)
• Karen Baert, CEO & Co-Founder (Ammobia)
• Yuval Noah Harari, Historian & Author (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
• Giles Moëc, Chief Economist (AXA Group)
• Dina Powell McCormick, President & Vice Chairman (Meta)
• Isaac Kwaku Fokuo, Founder & Curator (Amahoro Coalition)
• Gary Marcus, Professor / AI Researcher (NYU)
• Max Tegmark, Professor / President (MIT & Future of Life Institute)
• Mirjam Staub-Bisang, Chair and Senior Advisor (BlackRock Asset Management Switzerland)
• Richard Socher, Founder & CEO (you.com)
• Jack Symes, Philosopher (Durham University)
• Agata Ferretti, Researcher (IBM Research)
• Kirk Bresniker, Chief Architect, HPE Labs (HPE Labs)
• Silvio Dulinsky, Deputy Secretary-General (ISO)
• Ayisha Piotti, Director of AI Policy (RegHorizon)
• Alain Berset, Secretary General (Council of Europe)
• Jean-Marc Rickli, Head of Global and Emerging Risks (GCSP)
• Primavera De Filippi, Research Director (CNRS)
• Sharon Prince, CEO & Founder (Grace Farms Foundation)
• Arvind Jain, Founder & CEO (Glean)
• Marc Pollefeys, Professor of Computer Science (ETH Zürich)
• Gordon Liao, Chief Economist (Circle Internet Group)
• David Evan Harris, Chancellor's Public Scholar (UC Berkeley)
• Chris Lehane, Chief Global Affairs Officer (OpenAI)
• Kay Firth-Butterfield, CEO (Good Tech Advisory)
• Andrew Jackson, Executive (G42)
• David Siegel, Co-Founder & Co-Chairman (Two Sigma)
• Ignazio Cassis, Federal Councillor, Head of FDFA (Switzerland)
• Rasmus Rothe, Co-Founder (Merantix)
• Rob Heyvaert, Founder & Managing Partner (Motive Partners)
• Marcel Salathé, Professor / Co-Director AI Center (EPFL)
• Rod Beckstrom, Former CEO ICANN / Author
• Mat Honan, Editor in Chief (MIT Technology Review)
• Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, National Executive Director & Chief Negotiator (SAG-AFTRA)
• Nicholas Thompson, CEO (The Atlantic)
• Tshilidzi Marwala, Rector / Under-Secretary-General (United Nations University)
• Peter Sarlin, Co-CEO (AMD Silo AI)
• Audrey Herblin-Stoop, Head of Public Affairs (Mistral AI)
• Joelle Pineau, Chief AI Officer (Cohere)
• Noubar Afeyan, Founder & CEO (Flagship Pioneering)
• Victor Ambros, Professor; Nobel Laureate (Physiology or Medicine, 2024) (University of Massachusetts Medical School)