¶ Klaus Schwab
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Klaus Schwab is a German engineer and economist who serves as founder and chairman of the World Economic Forum (WEF).
¶ Family
Klaus is the son of Eugen Schwab, born April 27, 1899 and deceased in 1982. Eugen was the Managing Director of the German branch of Swiss engineering firm Escher-Wyss & Cie,[1][2] which supported the Nazi Party's war efforts during World War II.[3] He was also the Vice President and President of the Ravensburg Chamber of Commerce, and member of the Ravensburg Rotary.
Klaus is married to Hilde Schwab, and is the father of Nicole Schwab.[4]
¶ History
Klaus Schwab was born on March 30, 1938 in Ravensburg, Germany.[5][6]
¶ Education
In 1961, Schwab graduated from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich as a mechanical engineer.[7] He also received a doctorate in economics from the University of Fribourg in 1967.[8] He then attended the Harvard Kennedy School of Government where he earned as Master of Public Administration.[9]
While attending Harvard, Schwab found a mentor in former National Security Advisor and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.[10]
¶ Career
Schwab founded the European Management Forum on February 8, 1971 as a foundation to "promote events that serve a closer cooperation of the international, and in particular the European industry, in the elaboration of role models and concepts for responsible and successful management."[10:1] Its name was changed to the World Economic Forum in 1987.[11]
In 1972, Schwab became one of the youngest professors on the faculty of the University of Geneva.[7:1]
In 1992, Schwab launched the Global Leaders for Tomorrow program.[10:2]
Schwab created the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship with his wife Hilde in 1998.[12]
In 2003, the Global Leaders for Tomorrow was relaunched as the Forum of Young Global Leaders with $1 million won through the Dan David Prize.[10:3][13] His daughter, Nicole Schwab, served as founding director of the new program.[14]
Schwab launched the Global Shapers Community in 2011, housed within the World Economic Forum.[15][16]
¶ External links
Vedmore, J. (2021, February 20). Schwab Family Values. Unlimited Hangout. http://archive.today/2021.09.25-010007/https://unlimitedhangout.com/2021/02/investigative-reports/schwab-family-values/ ↩︎
American Intelligence Media. (2021, September 22). Eugen Wilhelm Schwab (b. Apr. 27, 1899, d. 1982); managing director… Aim4Truth. http://archive.today/2021.09.22-160241/https://aim4truth.org/1899-04-27-eugen-wilhelm-schwab-m-oct-02-1926-m-1938-d-1982-ravensburg-germany-b-apr-27-1899/ ↩︎
Norwegian Industrial Workers Museum World Heritage Site. European Route of Industrial Heritage. Retrieved February 6, 2021, from http://archive.today/2021.02.06-011444/https://www.erih.net/i-want-to-go-there/site/norwegian-industrial-workers-museum-world-heritage-site ↩︎
Reuters Fact Check. (2023, August 2). Fact Check-Daughter of WEF leader didn’t call for “permanent climate lockdowns” in 2020 clip. Reuters. https://web.archive.org/web/20230816091934/https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-wef-climate-idUSL1N39J28T ↩︎
Singer, K. G. (2021, September 7). Wer ist Klaus Schwab? TimePatternAnalysis. http://archive.today/2021.09.07-215511/https://www.timepatternanalysis.de/Blog/2021/03/14/wer-ist-klaus-schwab/ ↩︎
Klaus Schwab. World Economic Forum. Retrieved November 17, 2021 from http://archive.today/2021.11.17-114217/https://www.weforum.org/about/klaus-schwab ↩︎
Professor Klaus Schwab. World Economic Forum. Retrieved May 14, 2021, from https://web.archive.org/web/20210514170342/https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_ProfessorKlausSchwab_Factsheet.pdf ↩︎ ↩︎
Careers | Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences. University of Fribourg. Retrieved October 29, 2020, from https://web.archive.org/web/20201029171230/https://www3.unifr.ch/ses/en/fac/alumni/careers.html ↩︎
Improving the State of the World: a Conversation with Klaus Schwab. The Institute of Politics at Harvard University. Retrieved December 17, 2020, from https://web.archive.org/web/20201217193538/https://iop.harvard.edu/calendar/events/improving-state-world-conversation-klaus-schwab ↩︎
A Partner in Shaping History. (2010). World Economic Forum. https://web.archive.org/web/20230821064210/https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_First40Years_Book_2010.pdf ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎
Who is – and who is not – attending the World Economic Forum? (2023, January 16). Al Jazeera English. https://web.archive.org/web/20230829194021/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/1/16/who-is-and-who-is-not-attending-the-world-economic ↩︎
Home. Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship. Retrieved April 14, 2013 from https://web.archive.org/web/20130414033510/http://www.schwabfound.org:80/sf/index.htm ↩︎
Nadis, S. (2009). Next–Generation Leadership. Harvard Kennedy School. https://web.archive.org/web/20090907022046/https://www.hks.harvard.edu/news-events/publications/harvard-kennedy-school-magazine/archives/summer-2009/next-generation-leadership ↩︎
Nicole Schwab - Agenda Contributor. World Economic Forum. Retrieved August 1, 2023, from http://archive.today/2023.08.01-114204/https://www.weforum.org/agenda/authors/nicole-schwab ↩︎
Who are the Global Shapers? (2011, October 7). World Economic Forum. http://archive.today/2023.01.15-143942/https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2011/10/who-are-the-global-shapers/ ↩︎
Building a movement. Global Shapers. Retrieved February 8, 2023, from http://archive.today/2023.02.08-214410/https://www.globalshapers.org/story ↩︎