Klaus Schwab

Klaus Martin Schwab ( born March 30, 1938 in Ravensburg, Germany ) is a German economist. He is the founder and president of the World Economic Forum and other foundations.

Life

Schwab grew up the son of a Swiss factory director in the Upper Swabian Ravensburg and attended the local grammar school Spohn. He studied mechanical engineering at the ETH Zurich with the completion of a graduate engineer and was there in 1965 for Doctor of Technical Sciences ( Dr. sc. ) Doctorate. At the University of Fribourg, he studied until 1963 Business Administration and was there in 1967 as a Doctor of Economics (Dr. rer. Pol. ) Doctorate. He also studied at Harvard University, where he received the Master of Public Administration ( MPA).

From 1971 to 2003 he was professor of business policy at the University of Geneva.

In 1971 he founded the European Management Conference as a charitable foundation to promote the international cooperation of the economy and should introduce modern management concepts worldwide. Since 1979, Schwab publishes the annual Global Competitiveness Report, which reports on the competitiveness of business management practice around the world. As president of the foundation he built this from the result to a global communication platform for economic and political elites and intellectual mentor. In 1987 she was renamed the World Economic Forum (World Economic Forum, WEF).

The annually held in Davos meeting of the World Economic Forum's true globalization critics across as a symbol for the exercise of power of neo-liberal elite over the heads of those affected and has been repeatedly the target of protests. In 2012, Schwab has set itself the subject of critique of capitalism on the agenda.

In 1998 he founded with his wife Hilde -profit Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, 2004, he founded with his prize money of one million U.S. dollars for the prestigious Dan David Prize Foundation The Forum of Young Global Leaders.

Schwab is a member of supervisory boards and management boards of several international companies. He received numerous medals and awards, and holds honorary doctorates from several universities. He also serves on the Steering Committee of the Bilderberg conferences.

Schwab is married since 1971 and has two children. He lives in Cologny near Geneva, where there is also the management of all his undertakings.

Honors

Publications

  • The longer-term export credit as a business management problem of mechanical engineering ( using the example of the Federal Republic of Germany ), Offenbach 1965 ( also dissertation ETH Zurich )
  • The export credit. Information for German exporter, Frankfurt am Main 1966
  • Public investment and economic growth, Ravensburg 1966 ( also dissertation at the University of Fribourg )
  • Modern corporate governance in Mechanical Engineering ( with Hein Kroos ), Frankfurt 1971
  • Opportunity management, Dusseldorf 1976
  • Overcoming indifference. Ten key challenges in today 's changing world. A survey of ideas and proposals for action on the threshold of the twenty -first century ( Editorship), New York 1995
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