The Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum is known to most people simply as Davos – the town that hosts the event.
Every January (with the exception of two years of the Covid-19 pandemic, where 2021 moved online and the following year was held in May) close to 3,000 participants gather in the Swiss Alpine town to discuss affairs of the world, to strike deals and come to agreements. They are accompanied by thousands of advisers, security and media personnel, with the security details expanding in correlation to the power of the attendee.
For many critics of the economic and political system of the last half century or so, Davos is often cited as emblematic of an “elite” that controls the world and forces events that are to its benefit. As someone who has participated in Davos for much of the past two decades, I can attest to the fact that there is no control descending from the “magic mountain” to the world, and
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