The guest list is hundreds of names shorter, with many titans of finance conspicuously absent
Ask some of the world’s rich and powerful descending on Davos this week and they’ll tell you: after a two-year pandemic-enforced hiatus from the Swiss ski resort, the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum just isn’t going to be the same.
Even the timing and weather are off: instead of the usual snow and crisp January air, the forecast for the May Davos is rain. The event still expects to draw about 2,000 attendees, not counting the scores of other people who come but don’t go to official events. Citigroup’s Jane Fraser and Bank of America’s Brian Moynihan will be there.
And while President Donald Trump grabbed the spotlight in 2020, the US delegation this year will be led by commerce secretary Gina Raimondo. The most senior Chinese official is Xie Zhenhua, the special envoy for climate change.
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