Professor Patrick Aebischer joins Foundation Board, World Economic Forum

• Patrick Aebischer joins World Economic Forum’s Foundation Board
• Foundation Board serves as guardian to World Economic Forum’s missions and values 
• The theme of the 43rd World Economic Forum Annual Meeting is Resilient Dynamism. For more information, visit http://wef.ch/Davos

Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, 28-1-2013 — /europawire.eu/ — The Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum has elected Patrick Aebischer, President Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne, Switzerland to join its Board.

Professor Aebischer reinforces the multistakeholder concept of the Forum to integrate leaders from all walks of life into the process to shape the global, regional and industry agenda. Professor Aebischer is also an active Member of the Global University Leaders Forum, the premier global community of university presidents on the future of higher education and research.

The Foundation Board is the guardian of the World Economic Forum’s mission, values and brand. It is responsible for inspiring business and public confidence through an exemplary standard of governance. Individuals with unique leadership experience – from business, politics, academia and civil society – participate for three years in the Board’s activities. The Board’s role includes managing the statutes of the World Economic Forum and its institutions; appointing new members; reviewing fund applications; determining and monitoring the execution of the World Economic Forum’s strategies; and defining the roles of the Managing Board and Committees, including the review of strategies and activities in light of the Forum’s mission.

After its Annual Meeting in Davos-Klosters on January 23-27, 2013 the Foundation Board consists of the following:

Klaus SCHWAB*
Chairman of the Foundation Board

Josef ACKERMANN*
Chairman of the Board, Zurich Insurance Group, Switzerland;
Vice-Chairman of the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum

Patrick AEBISCHER
President, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne, Switzerland

H.M. Queen Rania AL ABDULLAH of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

Mukesh AMBANI
Chairman and Managing Director, Reliance Industries, India

Kofi ANNAN
Secretary-General of the United Nations (1997-2006)

Peter BRABECK-LETMATHE*
Chairman of the Board, Nestlé, Switzerland

Mark CARNEY
Governor of the Bank of Canada

Victor CHU*
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, First Eastern Investment Group,
Hong Kong SAR

Orit GADIESH**
Chairman, Bain & Company, USA

Carlos GHOSN**
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Renault-Nissan Alliance (France and Japan), France

Herman GREF
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Sberbank, Russia

Christine LAGARDE
Managing Director, International Monetary Fund, Washington DC

Maurice LEVY
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Publicis Group, France

Luis MORENO
President, Inter-American Development Bank, Washington DC

Indra NOOYI
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, PepsiCo, USA

Peter SANDS**
Group Chief Executive, Standard Chartered, United Kingdom

Joseph SCHOENDORF*
Venture Partner, Accel Partners, USA

Peter SUTHERLAND**
Chairman, Goldman Sachs International, United Kingdom

Heizo TAKENAKA**
Director, Global Security Research Institute, Keio University, Japan; Minister of State for Economic and Fiscal Policy of Japan (2002-2006)

Ben VERWAAYEN*
Chief Executive Officer, Alcatel-Lucent, France

George YEO YONG-BOON
Visiting Scholar, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy; Minister of Foreign Affairs of Singapore (2004 – 2011)

Min ZHU
Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund, Washington DC

Ernesto Zedillo PONCE DE LEON
Director, Yale Center for the Study of Globalization; President of Mexico (1994-2000)

*Member of the Executive Committee

**Member of the Audit Committee

Adrian Monck, Managing Director, Head of Communications: +41 (0)79 615 1671; adrian.monck@weforum.org

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