2008 Bloomberg article lists Elon Musk as a WEF Young Global Leader

It already includes such notables as Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Co-Founders of Google, USA; Crown Prince Haakon of Norway; Malvinder M. Singh, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, Ranbaxy Laboratories, India; Hiroshi Nakada, Mayor of Yokohama, Japan; Nicky Newton-King, Deputy Chief Executive Officer, JSE, South Africa; Carlos Danel, Co-Chief Executive Officer, Banco Compartamos, Mexico; and Jack Ma Yun, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Alibaba Group, People's Republic of China. Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia is YGLer, as is Newsweek's columnist Fareed Zakaria.

You can check out this year's winners--and the work the YGLers are doing in health, education and other fields--at the YGL site.

I do have one question when it comes to selecting this unique group of achievers. That's the selection committee. The selection committee is chaired by Queen Rania of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and is composed mostly of media titans. Here are many of the 31 judges:

Nicolas Beytout Editorial Director, Les Echos, France Carl-Johan Bonnier Chairman, Bonnier AB, Sweden Ferruccio de Bortoli Editor-in-Chief, Il Sole - 24 Ore, Italy Hubert Burda Publisher and Chief Executive Officer, Hubert Burda Media, Germany Carlo Caracciolo Chairman, Gruppo Editoriale l’Espresso, Italy Juan Luis Cebrian Echarri Chief Executive Officer, Grupo Prisa, Spain Chang Dae-Whan Chairman and Publisher, Maeil Business Newspaper and TV, Republic of Korea Mathias Döpfner Chief Executive Officer, Axel Springer AG, Germany Jorge Fontevecchia Publisher and Owner, Diario Perfil, Argentina Steve Forbes President and Chief Executive Officer, Forbes Inc., USA Tom Glocer Chief Executive Officer, Reuters Group Plc, United Kingdom Shekhar Gupta Editor-in-Chief and Group Chief Executive Officer, The Indian Express, India Hisashi Hieda Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Fuji Television Network Inc., Japan Juan-Pablo Illanes Director, Empresa Periodistica El Mercurio SAP, Chile Nabil A. Al Khatib Executive Editor, Al Arabiya News Channel, United Arab Emirates Jihad B. Khazen Director, Al Hayat Newspaper Ltd, United Kingdom Arnaud Lagardère General Partner and Chief Executive Officer, Lagardère SCA, France Giovanni Di Lorenzo Editor-in-Chief, Die Zeit, Germany James R. Murdoch Chief Executive Officer, British Sky Broadcasting Group Plc, United Kingdom Gavin K. O’Reilly Chief Operating Officer, Independent News & Media Plc, Ireland Nduka Obaigbena Chairman and Editor-in-Chief, Thisday, Nigeria Aroon Purie Editor-in-Chief and Chief Executive Officer, The India Today Group, India Michael Ringier Chairman, Ringier AG, Switzerland Jonathan Rothermere Chairman, Daily Mail and General Trust Plc (DMGT), United Kingdom Prannoy Roy President, New Delhi Television (NDTV), India Rui Chenggang Director and Anchor, China Central Television, People’s Republic of China Marjorie Scardino Chief Executive, Pearson Plc (The Financial Times Group), United Kingdom Peter Sullivan Group Editor-in-Chief, Independent Newspapers, South Africa Arthur Sulzberger Chairman and Publisher, The New York Times, USA Robert Thomson Editor-in-Chief, The Times, United Kingdom Elizabeth G. Weymouth Washington Post Group, Newsweek, USA Mehmet Ali Yalçindag President and Chief Executive Officer, Dogan Media Group, Turkey.