I didn’t come out here to go celeb-spotting but the fact that celebrities are short on the ground in Davos hasn’t escaped the notice of some of the myriad journalists and bloggers following events at the World Economic Forum.

While it’s possibly true that this year’s event may be lacking in true A list attendees my colleague Mark Jones notes there are still plenty of potential stars to be found among those who have bothered to show up in Davos. His trawl of the blogosphere produces a few surprises.

Mark was most struck by Jane Martinson in the Guardian’s Comment Is Free, who decides that  a new star is born:

Move over Sharon Stone and Bono. A small, grey-haired man wearing a grey suit and a slightly startled expression was the unlikely star of today’s Davos… A session on “making green pay” starring Sir Nicholas Stern, the former government economist and author of last year’s groundbreaking report into climate change, was standing room only.

Meanwhile Foreign Policy describes its unlikely star as ….

…a homely middle-aged woman from a declining region of the world. Not very stylishly dressed in a burgundy blazer, looking vaguely professorial, thoughtfully and without pretext staring off into the half-distance as she framed her thoughts, she nevertheless held 1,000 people in the Congress Center’s main hall rapt as she spoke about globalization, her own experiences, the relationship between the developed and the developing world, and her sense of Europe’s role.

That’s German Chancellor Angela Merkel they’re describing (below), in case you hadn’t already worked it out for yourself.