The rich and powerful from across the world will assemble for five days beginning Monday (January 20, 2025) for the World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting 2025. The annual confluence in Davos, Switzerland, brings the biggest names in the world from business to government to civil society to art and culture and a lot of others.

India is sending its biggest-ever contingent this time, comprising five Union Ministers, three Chief Ministers and Ministers from several other States alongside nearly 100 CEOs and other leaders.

Donald Trump, who will be sworn in as the 47th president of the United States, will address the meeting virtually on January 23. Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy will attend the meeting and give a speech on January 21, according to the WEF organisers.

Ahead of the summit, a WEF survey showed that armed conflict is the top risk to economic growth in 2025. Extreme weather, the no. 1 concern in 2024, was the second-ranked danger.