The NYT Deal Book is blogging live from Davos.
“Deal makers are everywhere here: Stephen A. Schwarzman of the Blackstone Group, David M. Rubenstein of the Carlyle Group, Stephen Pagliuca of Bain Capital, Glenn Hutchins of Silver Lake Partners, Joseph Rice of Clayton Dubilier & Rice and Steven Rattner of Quadrangle Group, among others.” – Andrew Ross Sorkin.
Categories: A-List Schmoozing
25 January 2006
The high-altitude schmooze-fest of rarefied quality is well underway. With 2,340 people from 89 countries expected – among them a dozen heads of state, 77 cabinet ministers, 23 religious leaders, 13 union bosses, 735 chairmen or chief executives and Angelina Jolie.
Just a few high-level snubs. First, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice declined, citing the press of business at home.
Then the White House invited the newly elected president of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, to visit Washington, giving her an excuse to bow out, too.
The participation of two high-level black women officials would have injected a jolt of electricity into an event here that for all its multicultural veneer, is still largely a white, male affair.
Still, Mr. Schwab is a realist.
Unfortunately, we’re in competition with the White House,” he said on Monday. “I know that Dr. Rice would have liked to have come. Sometimes internal political issues prevail.”
See Mark Landler’s story on the women at Davos
See Public Citizen for the latest on AFTA.