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India is acceptable for a power-packed practice astatine the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting successful this Alpine edifice municipality that volition spot the planetary elite sermon "a tone of dialogue" successful a fragmented satellite for 5 days opening connected Monday (January 19, 2026).
U.S. President Donald Trump volition beryllium the biggest prima among implicit 3,000 planetary leaders from government, business, academia, multi-lateral bodies, civilian society, and labour unions.
President Trump volition bring on the largest-ever U.S. delegation to Davos, including astatine slightest 5 secretaries. Those expected see Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent, Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, Secretary of Energy Chris Wright, and besides US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer.
The gathering volition besides beryllium attended by much than 30 Foreign Ministers, implicit 60 Finance Ministers and cardinal slope governors and much than 30 Trade Ministers.
Top governmental leaders taking portion see Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, French President Emmanuel Macron, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Chinese Vice-Premier He Lifeng, and Swiss President Guy Parmelin.
Close to 200 leaders from civilian nine and the societal sector, including labour unions, non-governmental and faith-based organisations, arsenic good arsenic experts and heads of the world's starring universities, probe institutions and deliberation tanks, volition besides enactment successful the meeting.
From India, astatine slightest 4 Union Ministers— Ashwini Vaishnaw, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Pralhad Joshi, and K Rammohan Naidu — arsenic good arsenic six Chief Ministers are expected to beryllium there, on with implicit 100 apical CEOs from the country.
The Chief Ministers are Devendra Fadnavis of Maharashtra, N Chandrababu Naidu of Andhra Pradesh, Assam's Himanta Biswa Sarma, Madhya Pradesh's Mohan Yadav, Telangana's A Revanth Reddy, and Jharkhand's Hemant Soren.
While Mr. Reddy is from Congress, Mr. Soren from Congress state Jharkhand Mukti Morcha and Mr. Naidu from Telugu Desam Party (an state of the BJP), the different 3 CMs are from the BJP.
Karnataka's Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar (from Congress) was besides expected to beryllium there, but has dropped retired owed to his engagements backmost home.
Among Union Ministers, Mr. Naidu is from TDP, portion the different 4 are from BJP.
Besides, Gujarat's Deputy Chief Minister Harsh Rameshbhai Sanghavi (from BJP) and high-level delegations from Uttar Pradesh and Kerala volition besides sojourn Davos.
Indian leaders are expected to enactment successful respective sheet discussions, including 1 connected 'Can India go the 3rd largest system successful the world' during the summit.
Business leaders from India expected see Reliance Industries main Mukesh Ambani, Tata group's N Chandrasekaran, Bajaj Group's Sanjiv Bajaj, Jubilant Bhartia Group's Hari S Bhartia, TVS Motor's Sudarshan Venu and Mahindra Group's Anish Shah.
Other Indian firm leaders expected to beryllium determination are Axis Bank's Amitabh Chaudhry, Godrej Industries Group's Nadir Godrej, JSW Group's Sajjan Jindal, Zerodha's Nikhil Kamath, Bharti group's Sunil Bharti Mittal, Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani, Infosys CEO Salik S Parekh, Wipro's Rishad Premji, Essar CEO Prashant Ruia, Paytm's Vijay Shekhar Sharma and ReNew CEO Sumant Sinha.
Former Union Minister Smriti Zubin Irani volition besides beryllium determination arsenic laminitis and chairperson of Alliance for Global Good: Gender Equity and Equality, which was founded a fewer years agone successful Davos itself.
Global leaders attending the acme see United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, World Bank President Ajay S Banga, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva, European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, UNESCO Director General Khaled el-Enany, WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and London Mayor Sadiq Khan.
