CNBC is set to provide its most extensive coverage yet of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2010 (27-31 January). CNBC EMEA will be providing live news, interviews and analysis on the ground from Davos with the attending CEO’s, economists, policy makers and heads of state across its on-air and online platforms.

Thursday's Guests

7:00 - Laura Tyson, Professor, University of California Berkeley
 
The former advisor to the Clinton administration will join us to react to President Obama’s State of the Union speech – She initially backed Hilary over Obama and it will be interesting to see how she views the president’s performance given she views reducing America’s ballooning fiscal deficit should be the major priority of his administration.
 
7:00 – Mark Spellman, Global Head of Strategy of Accenture

Will discuss State of the Union speech and the failure of the Cop15 process.
 
7:15 - Jim Turley, Chairman of Ernst & Young
 
7:30 – Andrew Moss, CEO of Aviva

The UK insurer is targeting big growth in the US where it recently launched an ADR listing and bought asset management group River Road.  Sees the rapidly ageing US baby boomers and the 401k market as key growth area. In November when Aviva last updated on trading sales growth was strong on ‘good’ profitability and margins but there where big fears about retail investor caution is impacting life product sales in the UK (-25%) and the US. Statement said the group was not bullish about next 6-9 months. We will of course stay away from the sex scandal that saw Mr Moss divorced and happily living with another directors wife.
 
7:40 - Raj Singh, Chief Risk Officer at Swiss Re

8:00-9:00 - Niall Ferguson, Professor of History, Harvard University

Ferguson, who is widely believed to be able to start an academic fight with a mirror, will be a colourful addition to our guest line up this year. Having been at ‘war’ with Paul Krugman over soaring government spending for nearly a year the economic historian believes we are spending our way to hyper inflation and need to cut back yesterday.
 
8:30 – Maria Bartiromo and Stephen Schwarzman, the Chairman & CEO, Blackstone Group

8:45 – Maria Bartiromo and Carlos Ghosn, CEO, Renault Nissan

In the wake of Nicolas Sarkozy’s decision to take a seat on the board of Renault in order to protect French jobs we will be focusing on what this means for both the auto maker and wider French business interests.
 
0900: NYSE EURONEXT OPENING

0900 Kenneth Rogoff, Professor of Economics, Harvard University
 
0920 Tom Glocer, CEO, Thomson Reuters

0930 Arif Naqvi, CEO of Abraaj Capital

0940 : Uday Kotak, Vice Chairman & MD, Kotak Mahindra Bank

1000: John Lipsky, First Managing Director of the IMF

1005: Jeffrey Joerres, CEO, Manpower

1020: Kris Gopalakrishnan, CEO, Infosys Technologies

1030: Muhtar Kent, CEO, Coca-Cola

1040: Vineet Nayar, CEO, HCL Technologies

1115 Robert Zimmer, President, Chicago University
 
1120: Patrick Kron, CEO, Alstom

1130: HUMANA CEO

1140 Pascal Lamy, Director-General WTO

1200: Michael Izza, CEO, ICAEW

1210: Andy Green, CEO, Logica

1215: Barbara Stocking, CEO, Oxfam
 
1230: Robert Shiller, Professor, Yale University

1415: Yasser El-Mallawany, CEO, EFG Hermes

1600: H.E. Sheikh Mohammed Bin Essa Al Khalifa, Chief Executive, Bahrain Economic Development Board

1630 Sergio Ermotti, Deputy CEO, Unicredit

1700 Edmund Phelps, Nobel Laureate, Professor, Columbia University

1710: Graham Mackay, CEO, SABMiller

1715 George Papandreou, Prime Minister, Greece
 
1720 Valdis Zatlers, President, Latvia
 
1730: Anand Sharma, India's Minister of Commerce & Industry

1730 Angel Gurria, Secretary General, OECD
 
1740: Sureyya Ciliv, CEO, Turkcell
 
1740: Ziya Akkurt, CEO, Akbank

1745: James Hogan, CEO, Etihad Airways

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