(List of GLT and YGL participants listed at the end of this article)
Introduction
Founded by His Galactic Majesty Klaus Schwab, the Young Global Leaders is an innocent sounding group and if you have worldly ambitions, this looks like a worthy resumé builder. When young and naïve, I would have proudly listed membership in this organization. Of course, I was not considered a person of note thus my invitation must have been lost in the mail.
YGL is a subset of the World Economic Forum. It targets young persons of note—officially those under 40 though it seems flexible in some instances—to gather for what sounds like any run-of-the-mill symposium that organizations stage to, usually, sell their consulting services or broaden their brand to a target audience. The big difference is that YGL “symposiums” or events are staged over the given year to provide a true globalist perspective on the issues they believe that need to be addressed. One event—with participants flown around in really cool helicopters—was held in Greenland, for example, to examine Climate Change! up close and personal.
However, it is anything but innocuous. YGL is one of the primary recruiting tools used to infiltrate the world’s upmost realms of media, cultural, economic, and political institutions and it has been extremely successful. Schwab claimed, in an interview, that not only was Justin Trudeau a YGL but also most of his cabinet as well.
There are indications that this organization has roots back to the very founding of the WEF in the early 1970s but the first iteration of the YGL was called the Global Leaders for Tomorrow (noted members listed below) begun in 1992. GLT disbanded in 2003 and was recreated as YGL in 2004.
From the Young Global Leaders website:
Our growing membership of more than 1,400 members and alumni of 120 nationalities includes civic and business innovators, entrepreneurs, technology pioneers, educators, activists, artists, journalists, and more.
Aligned with the World Economic Forum’s mission, we seek to drive public-private co-operation in the global public interest. We are united by the belief that today’s pressing problems present an opportunity to build a better future across sectors and boundaries.
The second paragraph is disturbing. They want to grow a public/private cooperation (amorphous fascism) in the name of what they define as the “global public interest”. Who defines what is in the global public interest?
They also have, I guess, something like a pledge:
Inspire
YGLs are motivated to use their talent and influence to be a force for good. We cultivate collective and individual leadership to help develop informed, visionary global change-makers.
Connect
YGLs believe that by pooling their diverse skills, experiences and networks they can achieve more together. We foster collaboration in the global public interest.
Transform
YGLs are pioneering and bold. We identify and champion ways to scale-up, amplify and accelerate their impact, to make more of a difference in their communities and beyond.
The Agents of Change
While in college, I was invited to such an event—not WEF—that sought members for a future leadership-type organization. Yes, I did attend and no, I never joined. For those listed below, that very well could be the case: I came, I saw, but they were full of it so I left.
A gossipy article in Bloomberg from 2008 is absolutely gushing for those elites that made the cut. There’s a plethora of names listed with many of them being verified from other places; others are not verifiable as of this writing.
Bobby Jindal (R), former governor of Louisiana, no other confirmation
Elon Musk, reportedly in the 2008 class but there is no other proof than from the gossip column and other mentions.
Anderson Cooper, CNN and son of Gloria Vanderbilt
Leonardo DiCaprio, is confirmed but not the year of graduation
Ashton Kutcher, actor/investor, class of 2016
Charlize Theron has been listed in various publications but no substantial proof has been found other than inclusion as WEF partners
Maria Bartiromo, FOX Business, confirmed but not the year of attendance/graduation
Yao Ming, basketball player
The below list is presented by year of attendance/graduation from the class plus some notations. Many have been confirmed through multiple sources—articles, video speeches, uploaded direct source lists, and printed interviews. Unless there was ambiguity, I cite directly from a website called WikiSpooks because they sourced from the YGL attendees’ lists pulled from archive material obtained through the YGL website. Some of the lists were scrubbed by YGL so if I had a source of a person not on the WikiSpooks source, I supplemented it with other source material.
Global Leaders for Tomorrow
1993
Tony Blair, former PM, Great Britain
Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin empire
Gordon Brown, former PM, Great Britain
Bill Gates, co-founder, Microsoft
Jon Huntsman, (R) Utah, governor, diplomat
Angela Merkel, former chancellor, Germany
Viktor Orban, current PM, Hungry
Nicholas Sarkozy, former French president
George Stephanopoulos, ABC News
Larry Summers, U.S. Secretary of Treasury, 1999-2001
1994
None of note—full list
1995
Paul Allen, Co-founder, Microsoft
Thomas Friedman, New York Times
Paul Krugman, New York Times
Lynn Forester de Rothschild, CEO E.L. Rothschild
1996
Evan Bayh, (D) former governor, Indiana
1997
Eric Schmidt, CEO Google, 2001-11
1998
Jeff Bezos, Amazon
1999
Pierre Omidyar, founder eBay
2000
Oleg Deripaska, Russian oligarch, “source” for Christopher Steele’s infamous dossier
2001
Jack Ma Yun, co-founder Alibaba Group
Fareed Zakaria, CNN
2002
Marc Benioff, co-founder Salesforce
Austan Goolsbee, Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, Obama administration
Larry Page, co-founder, Google
2003 (Last year of GLT)
William Lewis, founding director, McKinsey Global Institute
Samantha Power, (D) currently administrator, United States Agency for International Development; U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. under Obama administration
2004
No activity
Young Global Leaders
2005—Inaugural Summit of the Forum of Young Global Leaders
Sergey Brin, co-founder Google
Niall Ferguson, historian, Hoover Institution at Stanford University
Austan Goolsbee*
Larry Page*
Gavin Newsom, (D) governor of California
Samantha Power*
*Previous GLT members
2006
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of Muammar Gaddafi
Chris Tucker, actor/comedian, implicated with Epstein and Clinton
2007
Sheryl Sandberg, COO, Meta Platforms (Facebook)
Andrew Ross Sorkin, New York Times
Peter Thiel, co-founder, PayPal
Jimmy Wales, co-founder, Wikipedia
2008
Mark Leonard, founder, European Council on Foreign Relations
2009
Boris Nikolic, Gates Foundation science advisor, an executor for Jeffrey Epstein’s estate
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO Meta (Facebook)
Stéphane Bancel, CEO of Moderna
2010
Julian Castro, (D) HUD secretary under Obama administration
Gabrielle Giffords, (D) former U.S. Congresswoman, survived assassination attempt in 2012
Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN medical correspondent
2011
Nikki Haley, (R) former governor, South Carolina, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. under Trump Administration
Dana Perino, (R) former press secretary under G.W. Bush administration, Fox News anchor
2012
Huma Abedin, Hillary Clinton senior advisor
2013
Chelsea Clinton, daughter Bill and Hillary Clinton, Clinton Foundation board
Benjamin Jealous, (D), former director of the NAACP
Jamie Morin, former CFO and assistant secretary of the United States Air Force
David Rhodes, former president of CBS
Randi Zuckerberg, sister of Mark Zuckerberg; former executive, Facebook
Sources: World Economic Forum, WikiSpooks
2014
None of note—full list
2015
Elise Stefanik, (R) U.S. Congresswoman, New York
George P. Bush, (R) Texas Land Commissioner, candidate Texas Attorney General
Ivanka Trump, daughter and former advisor to President Donald Trump
Tom Cotton, (R) U.S. Senator, Arkansas
Tulsi Gabbard, (D) former U.S. Congresswoman, Hawaii
Vivek Murthy, U.S. Surgeon General, served and serving under Obama and Biden administrations
Elizabeth Holmes, founder of former Theranos Inc., convicted of fraud
Matt Mullenweg, WordPress Founder
Lauren Bush Lauren, granddaughter of George H.W. Bush, wife to David Lauren, son of Ralph Lauren
Sources: Official YGL attendees list, WikiSpooks
2016
Ashton Kutcher, actor/investor
Emmanuel Macron, French banker, president of France
Seth Moulton, U.S. Congressman, Massachusetts
Source, Official YGL attendees list
2017
None of note—full list
2018
Joseph P. Kennedy III, (D) former U.S. Congressman, Massachusetts
Alexander Soros, son of George Soros
2019
Pete Buttigieg, (D) U.S. Secretary of Transportation
Daniel Crenshaw, (R) U.S. Congressman, Texas (Note: Crenshaw claims that he was named as a YGL without his permission. The current web listing on the YGL website does not show Crenshaw’s picture though using archival methods, his picture and name are listed as a YGL member, just below Mayor Pete.)
Sources: Web Archive of YGL 2019, WikiSpooks
2020
Megan Rapinoe, U.S.A. Soccer
Alicia Garza, co-founder Black Lives Matter
Kate Gallego, (D) Mayor of Phoenix, AZ
Sources: Official YGL attendees list, WikiSpooks
2021
Adriana Cargill, journalist, heiress to Cargill agricultural conglomerate
Ibram X Kendi, anti-racist
End of List
(Edit: There is an incredible source of YGL and GLT members from Dr. Robert Malone’s Malone Institute where his group has painstakingly researched many of the same sources used in this article/list supplemented with additional sources. He provides an Excel spreadsheet listing each class and the links to all members by class. As I go through his research I will add to the lists of notable U.S. members below and cite his foundation as a source. An example, one of his lists name George Stephanopoulos of ABC News as a graduate of the GLT class of ‘93. Dr. Malone has also written a good article about the WEF and how it directly threatens your way of life.)