Davos Man

plural uncommon Davos Men · alternative Davos man

1. The global financial elite, represented as a stereotypical attendee of the World Economic Forum in Davos.

   So Davos man has a troublesome pre-history of combining brilliance and stupidity, of being blinded by national and ideological prejudice to his own long-term interest and destroying with one hand what he has built with the other.

   2005 February 3, Timothy Garton Ash, “Davos man's death wish”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 01 Jul 2017

   2 more examples

   The rewards of an increasingly integrated global economy have brought forth a new global elite. Labeled ‘Davos Men’, ‘gold-collar workers’ or . . . ‘cosmocrats’, this emerging class is empowered by new notions of global connectedness. It includes academics, international civil servants and executives in global companies, as well as successful high-technology entrepreneurs.

   2004, Samuel P. Huntington, “Dead Souls: The Denationalization of the American Elite”, in The National Interest, number 75, →ISSN, pages 5–18

   Although Lexiteers have little patience for the national nihilism of “Davos Man,” the globalist elite, we are no xenophobes. […] It has been a colossal error by Davos Man left-wingers to think of nation-states as embarrassing anachronisms hostile to democracy.

   2017 March 28, Alan Johnson, “Why Brexit Is Best for Britain: The Left-Wing Case”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 09 Nov 2020

plural Davos men

1. Alternative letter-case form of Davos Man.