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Studies at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, University of Fribourg and Harvard University; degrees include doctorates in Mechanical Engineering and Economics (summa cum laude). 1972-2003, Professor of Business Policy, University of Geneva. 1971, founded the World Economic Forum as a not-for-profit foundation and built it into the foremost international institution for public-private cooperation; 1998, Co-Founder, with wife Hilde, Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, supporting social innovation around the world; 2004, Founder, Forum of Young Global Leaders; 2011, Founder, Global Shapers Community. Numerous honorary doctorates. Several honorary professorships. Recipient of international and highest national honours for initiatives undertaken in the spirit of entrepreneurship in the global public interest and for peace and reconciliation efforts in several regions of the world.
The global system we are part of seems to be spinning out of control. Headlines around the world tell us something is amiss in many societies. I believe many of the developments we see to...
El cambio climático —probablemente el mayor desafío existencial de la humanidad— exige una acción urgente a nivel mundial.
Si pretende superar la “Gran Disrupción” de 2018, el mundo necesitará un nuevo marco para la cooperación global. Después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, la comunidad internacional se unió p...
Climate change – arguably humanity’s most existential challenge – requires urgent global action.
Même si la mondialisation a permis à beaucoup de bénéficier d’avantages sans précédent grâce à la circulation des marchandises, des services, des personnes et des idées, d’autres se sont ...
GENEVE – À, l'issue de la Deuxième Guerre mondiale, la communauté internationale s'est unie pour construire un avenir commun. Le moment est venu pour elle de recommencer. En raison du red...
Después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, la comunidad internacional aunó esfuerzos para construir un futuro compartido. Hoy en día, debe hacer esto de nuevo. Debido a la lenta y desigual rec...
After World War II, the international community came together to build a shared future. Now, it must do so again. Owing to the slow and uneven recovery in the decade since the global fina...
Aun cuando la globalización ha llevado a ganancias sin precedentes para muchos con el movimiento de bienes, servicios, personas e ideas, hay quienes han perdiendo, económica, política o c...
Even as globalization has led to unprecedented gains for many from the movement of goods, services, people and ideas, there are those who have lost out – economically, politically or cult...
Para cerrar las brechas en nuestro fracturado mundo será necesaria la colaboración de muchos actores. Y en la mayor parte de los casos es el diálogo el que distingue la cooperación del co...
We cannot fix the fractures of our world without multi-stakeholder collaboration. The difference between cooperation and conflict, between progress and painful reversals of fortune, more ...
A medida que la Cuarta Revolución Industrial siga cambiando la forma de la economía política global, muchos buscan ideas sobre cómo influir de manera positiva al cambio sistémico. En un m...
A message from Professor Klaus Schwab to the participants of Davos 2018.
In the 47 years since I founded the World Economic Forum, I have witnessed first-hand that when we change the way we talk, we begin to think differently too. Likewise, changing the way we...
