A number of Union Ministers, CMs to affix world leaders in Davos for WEF meet

Union ministers Ashwini Vaishnaw, C.R. Patil, Chirag Paswan, Ok. Ram Mohan Naidu and Jayant Chaudhary, alongside three chief ministers — Devendra Fadnavis, Chandrababu Naidu and Revant Reddy, will be part of a whole lot of presidency and enterprise leaders from throughout the globe in Swiss ski resort city Davos subsequent month for the World Financial Discussion board Annual Assembly 2025.

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Naidu may even be joined by his son and senior minister in his state Nara Lokesh, whereas Karnataka’s Deputy Chief Minister D.Ok. Shivakumar, Tamil Nadu Minister TRB Rajaa and Uttar Pradesh Minister Suresh Khanna may even be there for the five-day annual congregation of the world’s wealthy and highly effective, beginning January 20, 2025.

Actor Bhumi Pednekar, recognized for movies like Dum Laga Ke Haisha, Bathroom: Ek Prem Katha, Shubh Mangal Saavdhan, Pati Patni Aur Woh, Badhai Do and Saand Ki Aankh, would even be there.

Apart from over 50 Presidents and Prime Ministers from internationally, high officers of worldwide organisations just like the United Nations, IMF, World Financial institution, Interpol, NATO, European Central Financial institution and WTO are additionally anticipated to be in Davos for the WEF Annual Assembly 2025.

Senior ministers from Pakistan and Bangladesh, together with Bangladesh Authorities’s Chief Adviser and head of the interim authorities Muhammad Yunus would even be current.

Mr. Vaishnaw, Minister for Railways, Data & Broadcasting and Electronics & IT, additionally attended the final WEF annual assembly, alongside Smriti Irani and Hardeep Singh Puri from the Union Council of Ministers.

This time, Mr. Vaishnaw can be joined by Jal Shakti Minister Patil, Meals Processing Industries Minister Paswan, Civil Aviation Minister Naidu and Minister of State for Talent Improvement and Schooling Chaudhary.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has additionally attended the assembly up to now, however there isn’t a official phrase up to now about his participation within the high-profile summit, for which the primary theme this time can be ‘collaboration for the clever age’.

Anticipated to be attended by almost 50 heads of state and governments from internationally, the annual assembly would happen in opposition to the backdrop of a change of regime within the U.S. and numerous geopolitical and macroeconomic points, together with the Ukraine battle and persevering with West Asia disaster.

Each Mr. Modi and Donald Trump attended the WEF Annual Assembly in 2018 for the primary time as India’s Prime Minister and the US President, respectively.

Whereas Mr. Modi turned Prime Minister of India for the third consecutive time period earlier this yr, Mr. Trump is ready to imagine workplace for the second time on January 20, and his return is predicted to be among the many key subjects of debate at Davos.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Fadnavis and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Naidu have been to Davos a number of occasions, whereas Telangana Chief Minister Reddy attended the WEF Annual Assembly in January 2024 as nicely.

Apart from authorities leaders and civil society members, the Indian presence would comprise high executives of enterprise conglomerates like Reliance, Tata, Adani, Birla, Bharti, Mahindra, Godrej, Jindal, Bajaj and Vedanta teams.

Apart from Mukesh Ambani and Gautam Adani, the next-generation leaders from their teams are additionally anticipated to be current, whereas expertise leaders, together with Salil Parekh of Infosys, Rishad Premji of Wipro, as additionally Sumant Sinha of ReNew, Vijay Shekhar Sharma of Paytm and Adar Poonawalla of Serum Institute are anticipated within the Swiss Alpine resort city.

Geneva-based WEF, which describes itself as a global organisation for public-private cooperation, will convene leaders from authorities, enterprise and civil society in addition to scientific and cultural thinkers for its fifty fifth annual assembly below the theme of ‘Collaboration for the Clever Age’.

In accordance with the WEF, the assembly will function a trusted international platform for dialogue and cooperation, convey collectively a various neighborhood of stakeholders, search to attach the dots in an period of complexity and be firmly future-oriented — each by way of insights and options.

A number of periods are anticipated to be attended by Indian leaders, together with one on ‘India’s Financial Blueprint’.

As one of many world’s fastest-growing main economies, India has been rising at over 8%, and this progress has been buoyed by a give attention to selling native innovation and startups in expertise and manufacturing, representing a departure from conventional export-oriented fashions.

The leaders would deliberate how India has capitalised on this new blueprint and to what extent it may proceed to drive international progress.

In accordance with the WEF, the annual assembly will happen at a time when geo-economic fragmentation, geopolitical polarisation and divisions over values proceed to impression nations and communities internationally.

On the identical time, exponential innovation and deployment round complete units of inter-connected applied sciences — from AI and quantum to power tech, biotech and well being tech — supply an unprecedented alternative to extend productiveness and therefore, requirements of dwelling.

Reviving and reimagining progress is vital to constructing stronger and extra resilient economies, and the assembly would search to debate how one can keep away from an Age of Fragmentation and as a substitute work collectively on a can-do, people-centred agenda for an Clever Age.

The worldwide leaders would additionally deliberate on how one can reinvent the muscle of collaborative innovation to get out of the present low-growth, high-debt world financial system and tackle widespread challenges from local weather change to the moral use of AI.