Klaus Schwab

German economist, founder of World Economic Forum

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    Born 1938
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    The New Corporation: T…
    2020
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He built the annual gathering in Davos where heads of state, CEOs, and central bankers converge each January — a forum that became shorthand for globalist consensus and the target of equal parts reverence and conspiracy theory.

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Klaus Martin Schwab was born 30 March 1938 in Germany and trained as a mechanical engineer and economist. In 1971 he founded the World Economic Forum, an organization that would grow from a European management seminar into the convening power behind Davos — the Swiss summit where the world's political and financial elite meet to shape agendas. He chaired the WEF for more than five decades, presiding over its transformation into both a node of international coordination and a lightning rod for populist anger. In 2025 he resigned the chairmanship, stepping back from the platform he had spent a l…

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