World Economic Forum Davos 2012 Photos

DAVOS/SWITZERLAND, 25JAN12 - John T. Chambers, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Cisco, USA speaks during the session 'The Global Business Context' at the Annual Meeting 2012 of the World Economic Forum at the congress centre in Davos, Switzerland, January 25, 2012.

US Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet A. Napolitano, gestures as she speaks during a session of at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Wednesday, Jan. 25 ,2012. The overarching theme of the Meeting, which will take place from Jan. 25 to 29, is "The Great Transformation: Shaping New Models".(AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Josef Ackermann, chairman of the Management Board and Group Executive Committee of Deutsche Bank, uses his mobile phone in the Congress center on the first day of the 42nd annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, WEF, in Davos, Switzerland, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012. The overarching theme of the meeting, which will take place from Jan. 25 to 29, is "The Great Transformation: Shaping New Models". (AP Photo/Keystone, Jean-Christophe Bott)

DAVOS/SWITZERLAND, 25JAN12 - Vikram Pandit, Chief Executive Officer, Citi, USA; Co-Chair of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2012 gestures during the session 'The is Global Financial Context' at the Annual Meeting 2012 of the World Economic Forum at the congress centre in Davos, Switzerland, January 25, 2012.

DAVOS/SWITZERLAND, 25JAN12 - Duncan Niederauer, Chief Executive Officer, NYSE Euronext, USA captured during the session 'The Global Business Context' at the Annual Meeting 2012 of the World Economic Forum at the congress centre in Davos, Switzerland, January 25, 2012.

DAVOS/SWITZERLAND, 25JAN12 - The audience during the session 'Opening of the Annual Meeting 2012' at the Annual Meeting 2012 of the World Economic Forum at the congress centre in Davos, Switzerland, January 25, 2012.

DAVOS/SWITZERLAND, 25JAN12 - Urs Rohner, Chairman, Board of Directors, Credit Suisse Group, Switzerland talks during the session 'The is Global Financial Context' at the Annual Meeting 2012 of the World Economic Forum at the congress centre in Davos, Switzerland, January 25, 2012.

The chairman of the Soros Fund Management, George Soros (L) and the Deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund, Zhu Min (R), pose for a photograph during the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, on January 25, 2012. More than 2,600 businessmen, politicians, leaders of non-governmental organisations or scientists and hundreds of journalists pack the resort each year for the World Economic Forum. Chastened leaders of the global business elite admitted that the Western free-market model has come up short and faces being shoved aside by emerging power state capitalism. AFP PHOTO / ERIC PIERMONT

Norway's Crown Princess Mette-Marit and Crown Prince Haakon (C) attend the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, January 25, 2012. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann

DAVOS/SWITZERLAND, 25JAN12 - Ben J. Verwaayen, Chief Executive Officer, Alcatel-Lucent, France; Foundation Board Member waves during the session 'TIME Davos Debate on Capitalism' at the Annual Meeting 2012 of the World Economic Forum at the congress centre in Davos, Switzerland, January 25, 2012.

DAVOS/SWITZERLAND, 25JAN12 - Brian T. Moynihan, Chief Executive Officer, Bank of America, USA speaks during the session 'TIME Davos Debate on Capitalism' at the Annual Meeting 2012 of the World Economic Forum at the congress centre in Davos, Switzerland, January 25, 2012.

Peter Voser, Chief Executive Officer, Royal Dutch Shell of the Netherlands, Co-Chair of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2012, attends a session at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, January 25, 2012. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann

DAVOS/SWITZERLAND, 25JAN12 - Kim Choong-Soo, Governor of the Bank of Korea speaks during the session 'The is Global Financial Context' at the Annual Meeting 2012 of the World Economic Forum at the congress centre in Davos, Switzerland, January 25, 2012.

DAVOS/SWITZERLAND, 25JAN12 - Khalid A. Al Falih, President and Chief Executive Officer, Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia captured during the session 'The Global Energy Context' at the Annual Meeting 2012 of the World Economic Forum at the congress centre in Davos, Switzerland, January 25, 2012.

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