Today, Simonetta Sommaruga, Switzerland’s president, opened this year’s World Economic Forum (WEF) alongside the event’s founder, 81-year-old Klaus Schwab. This is the 50th WEF event in the Swiss Alpine resort of Davos. Ms Sommaruga said she was concerned about the state of the planet and the need to find the right balance between international politics […]
Business elite meet to discuss inequality in Davos
The World Economic Forum’s annual event for 2016 starts today in Davos, Switzerland. While the topics appear well chosen and at a glance the speakers well matched to the issues, some criticise the event for being an elitist get-together that excludes some of the very people at the heart of some discussions. This year’s topics Key themes for 2016 are: how to cope with the challenges of rising […]
Who is the man behind the World Economic Forum in Davos?
The World Economic Forum in Davos, which opens on 23 January 2018, has been running since 1971 but who started it? It is the brainchild of German-born Klaus Schwab. Schwab, born in Ravensburg Germany in 1938, trained as an engineer at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, before training as an economist […]
