Founder leaves WEF
World Economic Forum Davos: Founder Klaus Schwab goes
It is a meeting of the elite: government heads, entrepreneurs and scientists have been meeting in Davos for decades. The forum seemed to find less attention recently. Now his founder is going.
The founder of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Klaus Schwab, resigns from his office as chairman of the WEF curatorium. “After my recent announcement and at the beginning of my 88th year of life, I decided to withdraw from the position of the chairman and as a member of the board of trustees with immediate effect,” the WEF quoted him in a message. The committee had intended Vice Chairman Peter Brabeck-Letmathe with the tasks of Schwab.
The withdrawal of the German economist comes at the time of a rather dwindling public perception of the annual meeting of the international political and economic elite in the Swiss Nobel Skiort. The WEF had recently increasingly got into the shadow of the Munich security conference.
WEF wants to “improve the state of the world”
The Board of Trustees expressed its thanks for 55 years of “tireless leadership” of the WEF. During a time of rapid change, dialogue is more important than ever, it said with a view to the coming years. The WEF claims to “improve the state of the world”.
The World Economic Forum is a foundation that Schwab founded by Schwab in 1971. The forum became one of the most important meetings for top politicians, top managers, scientists and representatives of civil society from all over the world. The WEF is based in Geneva. It employs 600 people worldwide in Geneva, New York, Beijing and Tokyo.
dpa
Source: Stern
