As the World Economic Forum?s annual meeting in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland kick starts from January 28, the recent Satyam fiasco is expected to come up above the overarching theme of ?Shaping the Post Crisis World? in the forum. Considering that the 85-member strong CII delegation from India includes elite of the Indian IT industry, the issue, which has shook not only the Indian corporate sector but also the world at large, is likely to evoke a lot of interest.
The CII delegation includes Nandan Nilekani and Kris Gopalakrishnan of Infosys, Deepak Puri of Moser Baer, Vineet Nayar of HCL, Rajendra Pawar of NIIT, Azim Premji of Wipro, S Ramadorai of TCS, among India Inc stalwarts like K V Kamath, CEO, ICICI Bank, Mukesh Ambani of Reliance Industries, Kumar Mangalam Birla of the Aditya Birla Group, Baba Kalyani of Bharat Forge, Malvinder Singh of Ranbaxy, Adi and Jamshyd Godrej, Sunil Mittal of Bharti, Rahul Bajaj of Bajaj Auto and Anil Ambani of Reliance ADAG.
Apart from looking at the immediate crisis and ways to stabilise and relaunch the global economy, other highlights of the event will include the felicitation of actor Amitabh Bachchan and danseuse Mallika Sarabhai with the Crystal Award. Chess grandmaster and World Champion Vishwanathan Anand will also participate in the summit.
Representations from the Indian government top brass will include deputy chairman of the planning commission, Montek Singh Ahluwalia; science and technology minister Kapil Sibal and civil aviation minister, Praful Patel. Anand Mahindra, vice-chairman and managing director of the Mahindra & Mahindra group will co-chair the meeting along with Kofi Annan, former secretary general of the UN; Stephen Green, group chairman, HSBC Holdings, UK; Rupert Murdoch, chairman and CEO, News Corporation, USA; Maria Ramos, group chief executive, Transnet, South Africa; Jeroen van der Veer, chief executive, Royal Dutch Shell Plc and Werner Wenning, chairman of the board of management, Bayer, Germany.
The Indian contingent is part of the over 2,500 participant-strong community that will include a 41 heads of state or government, key finance, foreign, trade and energy ministers, along with religious, media and cultural leaders, social entrepreneurs and heads of non-governmental organisations from 96 countries. The forum will also highlight a number of interrelated global risks including climate change, food and water security.