The World Economic Forum (WEF) 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 engineer Klaus Schwab.
Headquarters in Cologny, Switzerland
Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman, World Economic Forum
Professor Klaus Schwab opens the inaugural European Management Forum in Davos in 1971.
F. W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela shake hands at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum held in Davos in January 1992.
Cologny is a municipality in the Canton of Geneva, Switzerland.
Cologny in April 2010
Villa Diodati in Cologny, where Frankenstein and "The Vampyre" were begun
View from the Geneva Golf Club across Lake Geneva
Porsche 1600 in front of "Le Manoir" or Manor House in Cologny