A broad range of participants took part in the first Oxford Vision 2020 summit in December 2003.
Participants at the first summit included:
- 8 treasury and public health departments from the United States, China, Canada, South Africa, Brazil and the United Kingdom;
- 16 corporations from the pharmaceutical, health care, food and media industries;
- 16 world-leading universities focusing on medicine and public health as well as economics, geography and development; and
- 12 leading non-governmental and inter-governmental organisations.
Organisations represented (key organisations; remainder in alphabetical order):
- University of Oxford
- Novo Nordisk A/S
- World Health Organisation
- Bowker Media & Communications
- Centre for Disease Control & Prevention, USA
- Chinese Centre for Disease Control & Prevention
- City University – London
- Department of Health, UK
- Earth Institute, Columbia University
- European Association for the Study of Diabetes
- European Centre on Health of Societies in Transition
- Geneva University Hospitals
- Health Canada
- Healthy Eating & Active Living HE+AL Partnership
- House of Commons
- House of Mondaymorning
- Institute for Alternative Futures
- International Business Leaders Forum
- International Council of Nurses
- International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association
- International Obesity TaskForce
- Johnson & Johnson
- JP Morgan
- LIMIU Limited
- Medical Research Council, South Africa
- Memory Pharmaceuticals
- Merck Sharp & Dohme
- National Treasury, Republic of South Africa
- Nestlé SA
- New Health Group
- OCDEM
- OECD
- PepsiCo
- Pharma Futures
- Stanford University School of Medicine
- Strategy XXI Group Ltd
- SustainAbility
- The Abelson Company
- The World Bank
- UK Treasury
- Umeå International School of Public Health
- University of Brasilia
- University of California at San Francisco
- University of Geneva
- University of New South Wales
- University of Oxford/Radcliffe Infirmary
- University of Queensland, School of Population Health
- University of Sydney
- University of Toronto
- University Potchefstroom
- Vanderbilt Diabetes Centre
- World Heart Federation