Børge Brende, president and CEO of the World Economic Forum, has resigned following an independent review into his ties with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
He is the latest in a string of high-profile figures to feel the consequences of their association with Epstein.
Let’s not lose touch…Your Government and Big Tech are actively trying to censor the information reported by The Exposé to serve their own needs. Subscribe to our emails now to make sure you receive the latest uncensored news in your inbox…
Børge Brende has been the President of the World Economic Forum (“WEF”) since 2017. In May 2024, he succeeded Klaus Schwab as chair and managing director of the managing board. Brende is also a member of the Bilderberg Steering Committee.
Related:
- The Great Reset Under Fire? Klaus Schwab to step down and calls for King Charles to step away from key royal duties, The Exposé, 4 April 2025
- The WEF is Being “Epsteined”, Global Research, 9 February 2026
The decision for Brende to resign from his roles at WEF was announced today. It comes after US Justice Department documents revealed that Brende attended three business dinners with Epstein in 2018 and 2019 and exchanged emails and text messages with him, years after Epstein pleaded guilty in 2008 to procuring a child for prostitution and soliciting a prostitute.
Brende, a former Norwegian foreign minister, claimed he was “completely unaware of Epstein’s past and criminal activities.” However, previous claims he has made have been proved untrue. He had, as recently as November 2025, denied knowing Epstein, Business Insider said.
As Semafor noted, Brende is among other high-profile Norwegians to face repercussions over their associations with Epstein, including former prime minister Thorbjørn Jagland, the crown princess, and Norway’s ambassador to Jordan and Iraq Mona Juul.
The Epstein fallout has not only been seen among Norwegians. There has been a string of global figures who have faced professional or criminal consequences for their ties to Epstein:
- Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and former UK Ambassador to the US Peter Mandelson were arrested this month;
- Sarah Ferguson, Mountbatten-Windsor’s ex-wife, announced she was shutting down her U.K.-based charity Sarah’s Trust in February;
- Larry Summers, former Harvard University President, will step down from his academic and faculty appointments at Harvard at the end of this academic year and will remain on leave until that time;
- Thomas Pritzker, chairman of Hyatt Hotels, announced on 16 February that he is stepping down;
- Kathy Ruemmler, former chief legal officer at Goldman Sachs, announced on 12 February that she was resigning from her job;
- head of the prestigious law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, announced on 4 February that he was stepping down as chairman;
- George J. Mitchell, former Democratic senator from Maine and envoy to Northern Ireland during the Clinton administration, resigned from his position as honorary chair of the Mitchell Institute in February;
- Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, an influential Emirati businessman, was replaced as chair of DP World;
- Casey Wasserman, CEO of Wasserman Media Group, announced in February that he was putting the company up for sale;
- Peter Attia, scientific adviser at AGI, chief science officer at David and wellness influencer, parted ways with AGI and David;
- Miroslav Lajčák, the national security adviser to Slovakia’s prime minister, resigned;
- Former French Culture Minister Jack Lang is under investigation in France and resigned in February as president of the Arab World Institute;
- Mohamed Waheed Hassan, a former president of the Maldives, resigned his post as special envoy to the current president;
- Richard Axel, a molecular biologist who won the Nobel prize for his work studying how the human brain processes smells, announced on Feb. 24 that he was stepping down from a prestigious post at Columbia University;
- David A. Ross resigned from his post as chair of the MFA art practice programme at New York’s School of Visual Arts;
- Larry Summers, the former president of Harvard University who served as treasury secretary during the Clinton administration and head of the National Economic Council in the Obama administration, announced in November that he would step away from his teaching duties at Harvard, and he stepped down from the board of directors at OpenAI and resigned his membership with the American Economic Association; and,
- Jes Staley, former CEO of Barclays, stepped down in November 2021;
- Leon Black, former head of Apollo Global Management, announced he was stepping down as CEO in January 2021.
Featured image: Jeffrey Epstein (left). Source: Town & Country. Børge Brende (right). Source: WEF (archived)
The Expose Urgently Needs Your Help…
Can you please help to keep the lights on with The Expose’s honest, reliable, powerful and truthful journalism?
Your Government & Big Tech organisations
try to silence & shut down The Expose.
So we need your help to ensure
we can continue to bring you the
facts the mainstream refuses to.
The government does not fund us
to publish lies and propaganda on their
behalf like the Mainstream Media.
Instead, we rely solely on your support. So
please support us in our efforts to bring
you honest, reliable, investigative journalism
today. It’s secure, quick and easy.
Please choose your preferred method below to show your support.
Categories: Breaking News, World News
Release the Epstein files! Release the Epstein files!……OK. Woops! Look at all the democrats, political & global elites.
Hi Rhoda,
Well you have really excelled yourself on this occasion.
This list of yours is amazing.
All you have to do now, is get some of our UK MP’s onto the list.
When you do there will be a rush to leave this country they have destroyed.
Keep up your good work.