{"id":105431,"date":"2018-01-29T12:00:22","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T12:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=105431"},"modified":"2018-01-23T15:11:36","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T15:11:36","slug":"here-are-all-the-world-leaders-going-to-davos-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2018\/01\/here-are-all-the-world-leaders-going-to-davos-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Here Are All the World Leaders Going to Davos This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>22 Jan 2018 &#8211; <\/em>The world&#8217;s elite will converge upon the snowy Swiss town of Davos this week for the World Economic Forum&#8217;s Annual Meeting, a weeklong networking event peppered with talks and presentations.<\/p>\n<p>Attendees include US President Donald Trump, UK Prime Minister Theresa May, and French President Emmanuel Macron, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/agenda\/2018\/01\/whos-coming-to-davos-2018\/\" >according to the World Economic Forum&#8217;s tentative list of attendees<\/a>, published last week.<\/p>\n<p>Scroll on to see all the most important political leaders going:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3><strong>View As: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/davos-2018-list-of-world-leaders-attending-the-world-economic-forum-2018-1?op=0#\/#donald-trump-us-president-1\" >Slides<\/a> <\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Donald Trump, US president<\/p>\n<p>Angela Merkel, chancellor of Germany<\/p>\n<p>Theresa May, UK prime minister<\/p>\n<p>Emmanuel Macron, president of France<\/p>\n<p>Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the European Commission<\/p>\n<p>Michel Barnier, chief Brexit negotiator of the European Commission<\/p>\n<p>Justin Trudeau, prime minister of Canada<\/p>\n<p>Benjamin Netanyahu, prime minister of Israel<\/p>\n<p>Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund<\/p>\n<p>Narendra Modi, prime minister of India<\/p>\n<p>Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, prime minister of Pakistan<\/p>\n<p>Antonio Guterres, secretary-general of the United Nations<\/p>\n<p>Saad al Hariri, prime minister of Lebanon<\/p>\n<p>Jim Yong Kim, president of the World Bank<\/p>\n<p>Alexis Tsipras, prime minister of Greece<\/p>\n<p>Leo Varadkar, Taoiseach (prime minister) of Ireland<\/p>\n<p>Emmerson Mnangagwa, president of Zimbabwe<\/p>\n<p>Paolo Gentiloni, prime minister of Italy<\/p>\n<p>Mark Rutte, prime minister of the Netherlands<\/p>\n<p>Michel Temer, president of Brazil<\/p>\n<p>Juan Manuel Santos, president of Colombia<\/p>\n<p>Haidar al Abadi, prime minister of Iraq<\/p>\n<p>Charles Michel, prime minister of Belgium<\/p>\n<p>Erna Solberg, prime minister of Norway<\/p>\n<p>Lars L\u00f8kke Rasmussen, prime minister of Denmark<\/p>\n<p>Petro Poroshenko, president of Ukraine<\/p>\n<p>Stefan L\u00f6fven, prime minister of Sweden<\/p>\n<p>Rex Tillerson, US secretary of state<\/p>\n<p>Philip Hammond, chancellor of the UK<\/p>\n<p>Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of England<\/p>\n<p>John Kerry, former US secretary of state<\/p>\n<p>Jared Kushner, senior adviser to the president of the US<\/p>\n<p>Tony Blair, former UK prime minister<\/p>\n<p>Gordon Brown, former UK prime minister<\/p>\n<p>Al Gore, former vice president of the US<\/p>\n<p>Alain Berset, president of Switzerland<\/p>\n<p>King Abdullah and Queen Rania of Jordan<\/p>\n<p>King Felipe of Spain<\/p>\n<p>Prince Albert of Monaco<\/p>\n<p>Queen M\u00e1xima of the Netherlands<\/p>\n<p>King Philippe and Queen Mathilde of Belgium<\/p>\n<p><strong>__________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/alexandra-ma.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-105432 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/alexandra-ma-e1516720240763.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" \/><\/a><em>Alexandra Ma is a fellow on<\/em> Business Insider&#8217;<em>s<\/em> <em>news desk in London<\/em>. <em>She can be contacted at ama@businessinsider.com.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/davos-2018-list-of-world-leaders-attending-the-world-economic-forum-2018-1\/#donald-trump-us-president-1\" >Go to Original \u2013 businessinsider.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>22 Jan 2018 &#8211; 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