Klaus Martin Schwab is a German engineer, economist and founder of the World Economic Forum.
16 Facts About Klaus Schwab
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Klaus Schwab has acted as the WEF's chairman since founding the organisation in 1971.
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Klaus Schwab's parents had moved from Switzerland to Germany during the Third Reich in order for his father to assume the role of director at Escher Wyss AG, an industrial company and contractor for then Nazi Germany.
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Klaus Schwab's family was monitored by the Gestapo, which in 1944 interrogated his mother for speaking with a Swiss accent in public.
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Klaus Schwab is a citizen of Germany although he has three Swiss grandparents and two Swiss brothers.
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Klaus Schwab attended 1st and 2nd grade at the primary school in the Wadenswil district of Au ZH, in Switzerland.
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Klaus Schwab was awarded a doctorate in economics from the University of Fribourg, and a Master of Public Administration degree from the John F Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
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Klaus Schwab was professor of business policy at the University of Geneva from 1972 to 2003, and since then has been an Honorary Professor there.
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In 1971, Klaus Schwab founded the European Management Forum, which was renamed the WEF in 1987.
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Klaus Schwab has championed the multistakeholder concept since the WEF's inception.
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In 2003 Klaus Schwab appointed Jose Maria Figueres as CEO of the WEF, his intended successor.
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Klaus Schwab has drawn ire for mixing the finances of the not-for-profit WEF and other for-profit business ventures.
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Yet shortly after the deal went through, Mr Klaus Schwab took a board seat at the same company, reaping valuable stock options.
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Klaus Schwab was awarded the Dan David Prize, and was recognized by Queen Elizabeth as an honorary Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George.
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Klaus Schwab has received honorary degrees from various universities, including the National University of Singapore and Kaunas University of Technology in Lithuania.
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Klaus Schwab has been married since 1971 to Hilde Klaus Schwab, a former assistant of his.