World Economic Forum Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! === Unclear selection criteria === In a request to the [[National Council (Switzerland)|Swiss National Council]], the [[Swiss Green Party]] criticised that invitations to the annual meeting and programmes of the World Economic Forum are issued according to unclear criteria. They highlight that "despots" such as the son of the former Libyan dictator [[Saif al-Islam al-Gaddafi]] had been invited to the WEF and even awarded membership in the club of "Young Global Leaders".<ref name="Geschäft Ansehen"/> Even after the beginning of the [[Arab spring]] in December 2010 and related violent uprisings against despot regimes, the WEF continued to invite Gaddafi to its annual meeting.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/gaddafi-s-son-to-get-wef-invitation/29133964|title=Gaddafi's son to get WEF invitation|date=29 December 2010 |access-date=1 August 2021|archive-date=1 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210801114449/https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/gaddafi-s-son-to-get-wef-invitation/29133964|url-status=live}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page