AP Online | February 1, 2002
Key participants in the five-day World Economic Forum, meeting at New York's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Some 3,000 corporate and political leaders and others were expected to attend:
King Abdullah II of Jordan
Kofi Annan, secretary-general of United Nations
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, president of Philippines
Jeff Bezos, founder and chief executive of Amazon.com
Bono, lead singer for rock group U2
Donald Carty, chairman and chief executive of American Airlines
Philip Condit, chairman and chief executive of Boeing
Jean Chretien, prime minister of Canada
Michael Dell, chairman and chief executive of Dell Computer
Kemal Dervis, economy minister of Turkey
Carleton Fiorina, chairman and chief executive of Hewlett-Packard
Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft
Rudolph Giuliani, former mayor of New York
Ibrahim Helal, editor in chief of Al Jazeera satellite channel
John Howard, prime minister of Australia
Nobuyuki Idei, chairman and chief executive of Sony
Horst Kohler, managing director of International Monetary Fund
David Komansky, chairman and chief executive of Merrill Lynch
Israel Meir Lau, chief rabbi of Israel
Thabo Mbeki, president of South Africa
Mahathir bin Mohammad, prime minister of Malaysia
Mike Moore, director-general of World Trade Organization
Hiroshi Okuda, chairman of Toyota
Paul O'Neill, U.S. secretary of treasury
Andres Pastrana, president of Colombia
Sidney Poitier, actor
Colin Powell, U.S. secretary of state
Ali Rodriguez, secretary-general of OPEC
Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch
Gerhard Schroeder, chancellor of Germany
Louis Schweitzer, chairman and chief executive of Renault
Javier Solana, secretary general of council of European Union
George Soros, chairman of Soros Fund Management
Jack Straw, foreign minister of Britain
Alejandro Toledo, president of Peru
Jean-Claude Trichet, governor of Bank of France
Desmond Tutu, archbishop emeritus of South Africa
P.B. Watts, chairman of Royal Dutch/Shell
James Wolfensohn, president of World BankAP Online:
