Annual Report 2024-2025
The World Economic Forum’s Annual Report outlines the key developments in 2024-2025. It provides an overview of the Forum’s centres and initiatives, progress from coalitions and key reports, and takeaways from select meetings, as well as the latest progress from the Forum’s core functions and operations.
The World Economic Forum’s Annual Report outlines the key developments in 2024-2025. It provides an overview of the Forum’s centres and initiatives, progress from coalitions and key reports, and takeaways from select meetings, as well as the latest progress from the Forum’s core functions and operations.
1. Co-Chair's Statement
The world around us is changing in significant and often unpredictable ways, challenging long-standing frameworks for cooperation and governance. We are confronted by a convergence of powerful forces: geopolitical realignment, economic fragmentation, technological upheaval and mounting planetary stress. Together, these forces are testing the resilience of our institutions, the fabric of our societies and the capacity of leaders to respond with clarity, wisdom and courage.
—Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, Ad Interim Co-Chair of the Board of Trustees
2. President and CEO's Statement
The work of the World Economic Forum comes during a moment of profound global change, as geopolitical and geoeconomic developments – alongside rapid advancements in frontier technologies – reshape the nature of relations across and between the public and private sectors.
—Børge Brende, President and CEO
3. Our Institutional Framework
This section explains how the World Economic Forum provides a global, impartial, not-for-profit platform and insights to support meaningful connections between political, business, academic, civil society and other leaders.
4. Our Impact 2024-2025
This section provides examples of initiatives applying the World Economic Forum’s unique impact methods to drive large-scale progress on critical public challenges and selected meetings held in 2024-2025 to provide a platform for progress, cooperation and trust-building.
5. Our Organization
This section provides an overview of key areas of the organization and significant highlights from 2024-2025. Additionally, it offers insights into the Forum’s talent, offices and affiliated organizations, such as the Forum of Young Global Leaders, the Global Shapers Community and the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship.
6. Leadership and Governance
This section provides an overview of leadership and governance of the organization for 2024-2025.
7. Financial Statements
This section provides the financial statements for the World Economic Forum from 1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025.
8. Stakeholder Metrics
This section give an overview of the World Economic Forum's stakeholder metrics, looking the Forum’s performance across four pillars: Governance, People, Planet and Prosperity.