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Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan, Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, Stephen Schwarzman, CEO of Blackstone, and Ajay Banga, CEO of Mastercard, and sponsors such as the New York Times, CNBC and CNN.
The IFI suffered another shock on Tuesday when the CEO of SoftBank Technology Investment Company also withdrew from a speech at the conference, according to the Wall Street Journal. In a problematic manner, Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund is the largest investor in SoftBank's $ 100 billion Vision Fund, which has committed $ 45 billion to this fund.
Siemens president Joe Kaeser has also decided to withdraw from the conference, delaying the signing of a power plant contract worth up to $ 20 billion, Bloomberg said, citing anonymous sources knowledgeable about it.
Last year, the IFI was a very different affair with a large number of leading business leaders and heads of state. He was so well attended that he called "Davos in the desert". Davos is the alpine city where the World Economic Forum (WEF) is held each January. It goes without saying that, faced with the bad press that Saudi Arabia is currently receiving, the WEF has opposed this week that the IFI be associated (albeit under its nickname) with its "brand" from Davos.
