GENEVA (AP) – U.S. President Donald Trump will return to the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, a group of business, political and cultural elites, in Davos, Switzerland next week, leading the largest U.S. delegation ever, organizers announced Tuesday.
The Geneva-based think tank said Trump has a hardline foreign policy on a range of issues. Venezuela and greenland The prime minister, who has caused concern in recent months among both friends and foes of the United States, will be accompanied by five Cabinet secretaries and other senior government officials at the event, which begins Monday and runs through Jan. 23.
According to the forum, 850 CEOs and chairmen of the world’s top companies are expected to join the 3,000 attendees from 130 countries scheduled for the Alpine resort this year.
Forum President Borge Brende said six G7 leaders, including President Trump, will also attend, as well as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Syrian President Ahmad Al-Shallah. A total of 64 heads of state and government are scheduled to attend so far, also a record high, but that number could increase by the time the event begins, he said.
According to Brende, the Chinese delegation will be headed by Vice Premier He Lifeng, the head of China’s trade authorities.
A number of other notable attendees are also scheduled to attend, including European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, World Trade Organization Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, as well as technology giants Jensen Huang, Nvidia CEO and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.
Brende said the U.S. delegation will include Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, as well as Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and special envoy Steve Witkoff.
The forum, which held its first annual meeting in 1971, has long served as a center for dialogue, debate and consensus-building. Mr Trump is already He attended twice during his time as president. broadcast on video Last year, he was just a few days into his second term.
Critics call it a place where the world’s elites ply their trade, sometimes at the expense of workers, the poor, and those on the margins of society. The forum counters that its stated goal is to “improve the state of the world” and claims that a number of advocacy groups, academics and cultural leaders also have important roles to play.
This year will be the first annual general meeting not chaired by Forum founder Klaus Schwab. who quit last year. He was replaced as interim co-chair by Larry Fink, chairman and CEO of New York-based investment management firm BlackRock, and Andre Hofmann, vice chairman of Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche Holdings.