A difference in this Davos is there are quite a few “formers”. Davos has traditionally been quite rigid about excluding former foreign ministers or presidents, but for understandable reasons, there are a lot of Clinton cabinet folk around.
It’s interesting in this context to see Madeleine Albright, former US secretary of state, and Ernesto Zedillo, former president of Mexico, in happy conversation around “the clock”, the centrepiece of the Waldorf lobby. Two years ago in Davos, Albright and Zedillo together would have meant a clutch of eager aides and a crowd of business supplicants jostling for attention.
Now Albright and Zedillo were left in total peace to have their tete-a-tete.