An elite is anyone with enough money and/or societal and political influence, to get invited to events like Davos, Bilderberg, etc., to discuss their plans for

An elite is anyone with enough money and/or societal and political influence, to get invited to events like Davos, Bilderberg, etc., to discuss their plans for shaping world policy. They essentially act like unelected oligarchs. The policies they elect to implement via their various subordinate organizations may or may not actually succeed, however. But they can try.