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(CNN) -- More than 2,300 people are attending the 2006 World Economic Forum in Davos this week.

They are drawn from various fields, including business, politics, non-government organizations, aid groups, labor organizations, culture and sports. About 15 percent of those attending Davos are media representatives.

Following is a list of key participants at this year's event, drawn from the World Economic Forum's Web site.

Co-Chairs:

Mukesh D. Ambani, Chairman and Managing Director, Reliance Industries, India

Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Nestlé, Switzerland

Sir Martin Sorrell, Group Chief Executive, WPP, United Kingdom

Lawrence H. Summers, President, Harvard University, United States

Heads of state and government and other public figures:

Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan,

Ahmed Mahmoud Nazif, Prime Minister of Egypt,

Angela Merkel, Federal Chancellor of Germany,

Ibrahim Jaafari, Prime Minister of Iraq,

Vaira Vike-Freiberga, President of Latvia,

Fouad Siniora, Prime Minister of Lebanon,

Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, President of Liberia,

Armando Emilio Guebuza, President of Mozambique,

Olusegun Obasanjo, President of Nigeria,

Jens Stoltenberg, Prime Minister of Norway,

Pervez Musharraf, President of Pakistan,

Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz, Prime Minister of Poland,

Moritz Leuenberger, President of the Swiss Confederation,

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Prime Minister of Turkey.

Mohamed M. ElBaradei, Director-General, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna

Javier Solana Madariaga, Secretary-General, Council of the European Union, Brussels

Peter Mandelson, Commissioner, Trade, European Commission

Philippe Douste-Blazy, Minister of Foreign Affairs of France, Thierry Breton, Minister of Economy, Finance and Industry of France,

Jean-Claude Trichet, President, European Central Bank, Frankfurt,

Frank Walter Steinmeier, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Germany,

Palaniappan Chidambaram, Minister of Finance of India,

Zeng Peiyan, Vice-Premier of the People's Republic of China,

Kim Hyun-Chong, Minister of Trade of the Republic of Korea,

Aleksey Kudrin, Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation,

Pascal Lamy, Director-General, World Trade Organization, Geneva,

Gordon Brown, Chancellor of the Exchequer of United Kingdom, Jack Straw, Foreign Secretary of United Kingdom,

Kofi Annan, U.N. Secretary-General,

Paul D. Wolfowitz, President, World Bank,

Robert Zoellick, US Deputy Secretary of State, Robert Portman, US Trade Representative, Michael Chertoff, US Secretary of Homeland Security.

Business:

Craig R. Barrett, Chairman of the Board, Intel Corporation, USA; Sir Richard Branson, Founder and Chairman, Virgin Group Ltd, United Kingdom; John T. Chambers, President and Chief Executive Officer, Cisco Systems Inc., USA; Michael S. Dell, Chairman of the Board, Dell Inc., USA; William H. Gates III, Chairman and Chief Software Architect, Microsoft Corporation, USA;

Carlos Ghosn, President and Chief Executive Officer, Renault, France; President and Chief Executive Officer, Nissan, Japan; E. Neville Isdell, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, The Coca-Cola Company, USA;

Abdallah S. Jum'ah, President and Chief Executive Officer, Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia; Lakshmi N. Mittal, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Mittal Steel Company, United Kingdom; Nam Joong-Soo, President and Chief Executive Officer, KT Corporation, Republic of Korea;

Sir Lindsay Owen-Jones, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, L'Oréal, France; Larry Page, Co-Founder and President, Products, Google Inc., USA; Charles Prince, Chief Executive Officer, Citigroup, USA; Hector de J. Ruiz, Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer, AMD (Advanced Micro Devices Inc.), USA;

Chen Tonghai, Chairman, China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (Sinopec Corp.), People's Republic of China; Ben J. Verwaayen, Chief Executive Officer, BT Plc, United Kingdom; Werner Wenning, Chairman of the Board of Management, Bayer AG, Germany

Non-government organizations:

Among the more than 53 non-governmental and international organizations participating are: Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Oxfam GB, International save the Children Alliance, CARE International, Islamic Relief, World Vision International, Greenpeace International, Open Society Institute, and WWF-World Wide Fund for Nature.

Labor:

Labor Leaders include Sharan Burrow, President, Australian Council of Trade Unions, Australia, and President of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions.

Cultural world:

Bono, Musician, DATA (Debt, AIDS and Trade in Africa), United Kingdom; Paulo Coelho, Author, Brazil; Peter B. Gabriel, Musician, Real World, United Kingdom; Angelina Jolie, UN Refugee Ambassador, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Geneva.

Sporting world:

Joseph Blatter, President, Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA); Jacques Rogge, President, International Olympic Committee (IOC); Larry Scott, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, WTA Tour; David Stern, Commissioner, National Basketball Association (NBA); Muhammad Ali, Former Heavyweight-Boxing Champion; and Edson Arantes (Pelé) Nascimento, World Cup Soccer Champion, Ernesto Bertarelli, President of Alinghi and Navigator, Winner of the America's Cup 2003.

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