BOARD OF TRUSTEES (meaning):
A board of trustees is a group of individuals either appointed or elected to manage and govern the assets of an endowment, charitable foundation, trust, or nonprofit organization. The board's utmost duty is to protect the organization's best interests through decisions made on its behalf."
https://www.legalzoom.com/articles/roles-and-duties-of-your-board-of-trustees
https://www.weforum.org/reports/annual-report-2021-2022/in-full/leadership-and-governance-f75c2f60c3
WEF - Board of Trustees / Status on 30 June 2022
The Forum is guided by a Board of Trustees, exceptional individuals who act as guardians of its mission and values, which oversees the Forum’s work in promoting true global citizenship.
The Board of Trustees comprises outstanding leaders from business, politics, academia and civil society. In their work on the Board, members do not represent any personal or professional interests. To reflect the Board’s multistakeholder status, its membership is divided equally between representatives of the business community and leaders from international organizations and civil society.
-> Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum
Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, Vice-Chairman of the Board of Trustees, World Economic Forum
Mukesh D. Ambani, Chairman and Managing Director, Reliance Industries
Marc Benioff, Chair and Chief Executive Officer, Salesforce
Thomas Buberl, Chief Executive Officer, AXA
-> Mark Carney, United Nations Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance, United Nations
-> Laurence D. Fink, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, BlackRock
-> Chrystia Freeland, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Canada
-> Orit Gadiesh, Chairman, Bain & Company
-> Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund (IMF)
-> Fabiola Gianotti, Director-General, European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)
-> Al Gore, Vice-President of the United States (1993- 2001); Chairman and Co-Founder, Generation Investment Management LLP
André Hoffmann, Chairman, Massellaz
Paula Ingabire, Minister of Information Communication Technology and Innovation of Rwanda
-> Joe Kaeser, Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Siemens Energy
-> Christine Lagarde, President, European Central Bank
-> Yo-Yo Ma, Cellist Peter Maurer, President, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
Luis Alberto Moreno, Managing Director, Allen & Company
Patrice Motsepe, Founder and Executive Chairman, African Rainbow Minerals
-> Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director-General, World Trade Organization (WTO)
H.M. Queen Rania Al Abdullah of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
L. Rafael Reif, President, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
-> David M. Rubenstein, Co-Founder and Co-Chairman, Carlyle
-> Mark Schneider, Chief Executive Officer, Nestlé
Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Senior Minister, Government of Singapore
-> Jim Hagemann Snabe, Chairman, Siemens
Julie Sweet, Chair and Chief Executive Officer, Accenture
Feike Sybesma, Honorary Chairman, Royal DSM
Heizo Takenaka, Professor Emeritus, Keio University
Zhu Min, Chairman, National Institute of Financial Research
in 2019 not so much difference, but Ursula v. d. Leyen was also on board!
YoYo Ma. Well, yeah. Of course.
same :-)