World Economic Forum

=== Corporate capture of global and democratic institutions ===
The World Economic Forum's "Global Redesign" report suggests to create "public-private" [[United Nations]] (UN) in which selected agencies operate and steer global agendas under shared governance systems.<ref name="Martens">{{cite book |last=Martens |first=Jens |chapter-url=https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-30469-0_12 |title=Sustainable Development Goals and Human Rights. Interdisciplinary Studies in Human Rights |chapter=The Role of Public and Private Actors and Means in Implementing the SDGs: Reclaiming the Public Policy Space for Sustainable Development and Human Rights |editor-last1=Kaltenborn |editor-first1=M. |editor-last2=Krajewski |editor-first2=M. |editor-last3=Kuhn |editor-first3=H. |publisher=Springer |location=Cham |year=2020 |volume=5 |pages=207–220 |doi=10.1007/978-3-030-30469-0_12 |isbn=978-3-030-30468-3 |s2cid=213580432 |access-date=17 August 2021 |archive-date=17 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210817101705/https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-30469-0_12 |url-status=live }}</ref>

In September 2019, more than 400 civil society organizations and 40 international networks heavily criticised a partnership agreement between WEF and the United Nations and called on the [[UN Secretary-General]] to end it.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cognitoforms.com/MultistakeholderismActionGroup/CorporateCaptureOfGlobalGovernanceTheWorldEconomicForumWEFUNPartnershipAgreementIsADangerousThreatToUN|title=Corporate capture of global governance: The World Economic Forum (WEF)-UN partnership agreement is a dangerous threat to UN System|website=www.cognitoforms.com|access-date=14 August 2021|archive-date=22 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210822032237/https://www.cognitoforms.com/MultistakeholderismActionGroup/CorporateCaptureOfGlobalGovernanceTheWorldEconomicForumWEFUNPartnershipAgreementIsADangerousThreatToUN|url-status=live}}</ref> They see such an agreement as a "disturbing corporate capture of the UN, which moved the world dangerously towards a privatised global governance".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://fian.org/en/press-release/article/wef-takeover-of-un-strongly-condemned-2273|title=WEF takeover of UN strongly condemned|website=fian.org|date=16 January 2020 |access-date=15 August 2021|archive-date=15 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210815154607/https://fian.org/en/press-release/article/wef-takeover-of-un-strongly-condemned-2273|url-status=live}}</ref> The Dutch Transnational Institute think tank summarises that we are increasingly entering a world where gatherings such as Davos are "a silent global [[coup d'état]]" to capture governance.<ref name="Davos and its danger to Democracy"/>