Klaus Schwab
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Klaus Martin Schwab is a German mechanical engineer, economist, and founder of the World Economic Forum. He was the WEF's chairman from 1971 until his resignation in 2025.
Schwab in 2011
Schwab (rightmost) opens the inaugural European Management Forum in Davos in 1971.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Schwab shaking hands at the World Economic Forum Russia CEO Roundtable in June 2007
World Economic Forum
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The World Economic Forum is an international advocacy non-governmental organization and think tank, based in Cologny, Canton of Geneva, Switzerland. It was founded on 24 January 1971 by German enginee
Klaus Schwab
…Klaus Martin Schwab (German: ; born 30 March 1938) is a German mechanical engineer, economist, and founder of the World Economic Forum (WEF). He was the WEF's chairman from 1971 until his resignation in 2025. Klaus Martin Schwab was born on 30 March 1938, to Eugen Wilhelm Schwab and…
Headquarters in Cologny, Switzerland
Klaus Schwab, founder and former executive chairman, World Economic Forum
F. W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela shake hands at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum held in Davos in January 1992.