Dataset
Davos 2027 speakers
People on the published programme, with their role, organisation and topics.
- Records
- 14
- Columns
- 10
- Covers
- 2027-01-18 to 2027-01-22
- Updated
- 23 September 2026
Speakers appearing on curated side-event programmes. The event↔speaker relationship is many-to-many and lives in the relationships dataset rather than here.
Columns
| Column | Description |
|---|---|
| slug | Stable identifier; joins to person_slug in the relationships dataset. |
| name | Full name. |
| role | Job title. |
| org | Organisation represented. |
| organiser_slug | Joins to the organisers dataset, where the organisation is one. |
| area | Where they are based during the week, where stated. |
| topics | Pipe-separated topic names. |
| event_count | Number of events they appear on. |
| bio | Short biography. |
| page_url | Canonical URL of this record's page on the site. |
First 8 of 14 rows
Shown exactly as the CSV writes them, so a cell that looks empty here is empty there.
| slug | name | role | org | organiser_slug | area | topics | event_count | bio | page_url |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| amara-okonkwo | Amara Okonkwo | Chair | Net Zero Coalition | net-zero-coalition | Davos Platz | Climate | Energy | 2 | "Amara chairs the Net Zero Coalition, aligning asset owners behind transition finance. She spent two decades in infrastructure investment before turning full-time to mobilising private capital for decarbonisation at scale." | https://davosevents.co/speakers/amara-okonkwo |
| claire-dubois | Ambassador Claire Dubois | Senior Fellow | Strategic Risk Institute | strategic-risk-institute | Davos Platz | Policy | 1 | "A former diplomat, Claire now leads the institute's geopolitical practice. Her morning briefing is one of the few on-the-record sessions of the week, prized for being sourced, unsentimental and quotable." | https://davosevents.co/speakers/claire-dubois |
| lena-hoffmann | Dr. Lena Hoffmann | Managing Partner | Frontier Capital | frontier-capital | Davos Dorf | Technology | Policy | 2 | "Lena leads Frontier Capital's growth practice, where she has backed a generation of applied-AI companies. A former research scientist, she is known for cutting through hype to the question of whether a technology actually changes a unit economic." | https://davosevents.co/speakers/lena-hoffmann |
| marcus-reinhart | Marcus Reinhart | General Partner | Alpine Ventures | alpine-ventures | Davos Platz | Startups | Finance | 2 | Marcus co-founded Alpine Ventures to back European founders at the earliest stage. He runs the firm's Davos bookends — the founders breakfast and the closing brunch — and is relentless about turning introductions into follow-ups. | https://davosevents.co/speakers/marcus-reinhart |
| david-osei | David Osei | Head of Grid | Power & Grid Forum | power-and-grid-forum | Davos Platz | Energy | Climate | 1 | "David leads the forum's grid programme, working the unglamorous but decisive problems of transmission, interconnection and storage economics. His roundtable puts operators and regulators around one table." | https://davosevents.co/speakers/david-osei |
| hans-brenner | Dr. Hans Brenner | Chief Economist | Helvetia Macro | Davos Platz | Policy | Finance | 2 | "Hans is a widely-followed macro economist whose framing of rates, currencies and geopolitics anchors the week's finance conversations. He moves easily between the on-the-record briefing and the private luncheon." | https://davosevents.co/speakers/hans-brenner | |
| rajesh-menon | Dr. Rajesh Menon | Founder & Chief Executive | LifeScience Partners | lifescience-partners | Davos Platz | Health | 1 | "A physician-turned-entrepreneur, Rajesh built LifeScience Partners into a network spanning diagnostics and care delivery. He curates the Davos showcase to put operators changing medicine within reach of the capital that can scale them." | https://davosevents.co/speakers/rajesh-menon |
| elena-volkova | Elena Volkova | Editor-in-Chief | Newsroom Futures | newsroom-futures | Davos Platz | Media | Technology | 1 | Elena leads a newsroom navigating the platform era and hosts the media leaders reception. She is a clear-eyed voice on how trusted information funds itself and reaches an audience in the next decade. | https://davosevents.co/speakers/elena-volkova |