Klaus Schwab
Klaus Schwab founded the World Economic Forum in 1971 as a not-for-profit foundation and built it into the foremost international institution for public-private cooperation. In 1998, he and his wife, Hilde, founded the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, supporting social innovation around the world. In 2004, he founded the Forum of Young Global Leaders and then, in 2011, the Global Shapers Community. An engineer and economist by training, he was a professor of business policy at the University of Geneva from 1972 to 2003.
