Media Registration Opens for Annual Meeting of Young Global Leaders in Vancouver
Geneva, Switzerland, 26 April 2006 – The Forum of Young Global Leaders has opened media accreditation for their Annual Summit which will take place in Vancouver, Canada from 8-11 June 2006.
The Forum of Young Global Leaders, an initiative of the World Economic Forum, brings together outstanding leaders, aged 40 years or younger to collectively work towards a better future.
Currently, the community includes 412 members and each year around 200 Young Global Leaders are nominated to engage for a period of five years, ultimately forming a community of 1,111 by 2009.
Should your media organization wish to cover the event, we kindly ask you to sign up and submit your registration at our online registration site: http://www.weforummedia.org/.
The Summit will be held at the Four Seasons Hotel Vancouver, 791 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Tel.:+1 (604) 689 9333; Fax: +1 (604) 684 4555.
Basic information about the Forum of Young Global Leaders can be found at http://www.younggloballeaders.org/.
For photographs of the Inaugural Summit of the Young Global Leaders in 2005 in Zermatt, Switzerland, go to
http://www.swiss-image.ch/ (Login: young, Password: leaders)
For further information, please do not hesitate to contact Yann Zopf by e-mail at yann.zopf@weforum.org.
The Forum of Young Global Leaders (http://admin.younggloballeaders.org/www.weforum.org/ygl), based in Geneva, Switzerland, is in the process of being incorporated as an independent, not-for-profit foundation, under the supervision of the Swiss Government. The Forum of Young Global Leaders was created by Professor Klaus Schwab in 2004 and acts in close cooperation with the World Economic Forum in their joint commitment to improving the state of the world.