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Klaus Schwab

  • Friday, 15 August, 2025
    World Economic Forum
    WEF clears Klaus Schwab of material wrongdoing

    Davos forum names BlackRock’s Larry Fink as interim co-chair after whisteblower allegations rejected

    Klaus Schwab gestures with both hands while speaking during the World Economic Forum in Davos
  • Sunday, 20 July, 2025
    World Economic Forum
    Klaus Schwab rejects misconduct probe findings as WEF dispute deepens

    Davos founder says agreement on media restraint breached after excerpts of draft report appear in Swiss press

    Klaus Schwab
  • Thursday, 29 May, 2025
    ‘A family enterprise’: WEF founder Klaus Schwab on alleged wrongdoing at Davos

    World Economic Forum’s ousted leader files for defamation after ‘stupid and constructed’ whistleblower allegations

    Klaus Schwab at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland
  • Wednesday, 28 May, 2025
    World Economic Forum
    Lagarde discussed leaving ECB early to head WEF, says Schwab

    Ousted Davos founder says central bank chief has been in talks to depart before her term ends in 2027

    Montage of former WEF chair Klaus Schwab, left, and ECB president Christine Lagarde, right, with the World Economic Forum and EU logos behind them on a blue background
  • Wednesday, 14 May, 2025
    News in-depthWorld Economic Forum
    Downfall in Davos: Klaus Schwab fights for legacy after WEF whistleblower claims

    Ousted head of World Economic Forum battles impropriety allegations and second probe into his conduct in a year

    A montage of Klaus Schwab speaking, set against a World Economic Forum logo
  • Wednesday, 23 April, 2025
    Davos founder accused of manipulating World Economic Forum research

    Klaus Schwab denies whistleblower claims and says he is the victim of ‘character assassination’

    Klaus Schwab first developed the WEF’s global competitiveness report in 1979
  • Tuesday, 22 April, 2025
    Davos founder Klaus Schwab faces whistleblower investigation

    Fresh claims follow allegations last year that the chair presided over a toxic workplace culture at the organisation

    World Economic Forum founder and chair Klaus Schwab gives welcoming remarks at the 55th annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, January 21, 2025
  • Thursday, 3 April, 2025
    World Economic Forum
    Davos forum founder Klaus Schwab to step down as chair of trustees

    Head of body that hosts elite business conference says event must recover ‘sense of mission’

  • Friday, 14 March, 2025
    World Economic Forum
    Davos organiser promises revamp after probe into workplace discrimination

    Lawyers hired by World Economic Forum ‘did not find . . . legal violations’

    World Economic Forum founder Klaus Schwab
  • Monday, 8 July, 2024
    World Economic Forum
    Davos organiser World Economic Forum accused of workplace discrimination

    Lawsuit alleges Swiss non-profit created an atmosphere ‘hostile to women and Black employees’

    World Economic Forum logo at Davos
  • Thursday, 30 May, 2024
    Business InsightSam Jones
    Schwab’s step back prompts fresh questions over Davos

    It is an awkward time for globalist gatherings of business and politics

    Klaus Schwab speaks at Davos in January
  • Tuesday, 21 May, 2024
    World Economic Forum
    Davos forum founder Schwab to step down

    Founder turned World Economic Forum into must-attend conference and €500mn business

    Klaus Schwab speaks at an event ahead of the World Economic Forum in 2018
  • Thursday, 16 September, 2021
    World Economic Forum in Davos
    World Economic Forum plans return to Davos next year

    Klaus Schwab’s group hopes to finally resume in-person gatherings after being upended by the pandemic

    World Economic Forum signage
  • Monday, 1 June, 2020
    World Economic Forum in Davos
    Davos aims to coax elite out of isolation in January

    World Economic Forum tests desire for networking in a post-coronavirus world

    The WEF says the purpose of the 2021 meeting would be to plot a ‘great reset of capitalism’
  • Wednesday, 25 March, 2020
    Moral Money
    Polman tells banks to step up; Schwab names names; Covid-19 saints and sinners

    Your guide to the investment and business revolution you can’t afford to ignore 

  • Wednesday, 25 March, 2020
    Moral MoneyESG investing
    Covid-19 is a litmus test for stakeholder capitalism

    Companies which focused on the short-term have been the first to suffer

    A MUNI bus stop sign displays an advertisement placed by the Center for Disease Control (CDC) reading "Slow the spread of COVID-19, stay home if you can" in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Friday, March 20, 2020. California Governor Gavin Newsom ordered that all of the states 40 million residents go into home isolation starting Thursday evening, marking the most stringent U.S. effort yet to stymie the spread of the novel coronavirus. Photographer: Michael Short/Bloomberg
  • Wednesday, 22 January, 2020
    Special ReportThe World 2020
    Davos founder Schwab defends role of elite economic gathering

    Fifty annual meetings on, forum’s creator argues that it is now more needed than ever

    World Economic Forum (WEF) Founder and Executive Chairman Klaus Schwab attends a press conference ahead of the WEF 2018 Annual Meeting, on January 16, 2018 in Cologny, near Geneva. US President's planned visit to the World Economic Forum at at the luxury Swiss ski resort town of Davos next week will likely eclipse the long list of other movers and shakers set to attend. / AFP PHOTO / Fabrice COFFRINI (Photo credit should read FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images)
  • Monday, 20 January, 2020
    News in-depthFT Alphaville
    How too much virtue signalling hinders stakeholder capitalism

    And why meaningful corporate-specific targets are needed if social impact objectives are to be achieved.

  • Tuesday, 14 January, 2020
    Moral Money
    Moral Money Special: Klaus Schwab on the WEF’s future

    Your guide to the investment and business revolution you can’t afford to ignore 

    Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum Klaus Schwab gives a press conference ahead of the 2019 edition of annual meeting of the World Economic Forum on January 15, 2019 in Geneva. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP) (Photo credit should read FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images)
  • Monday, 21 January, 2019
    World Economic Forum in Davos
    World Economic Forum navigates geopolitical fallout

    With the US absent, it will be much easier for China to make its case unchallenged

    U.S. President Donald Trump waves after addressing the National Farm Bureau Federation's 100th convention in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S., January 14, 2019. REUTERS/Carlos Barria - RC1863364C70
  • Friday, 26 January, 2018
    US trade
    Trump tells Davos ‘America First, not America alone’

    US president builds bridges with the international community in keynote speech

    US President Donald Trump looks on as the Landwehr Fribourg band leaves the stage during the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting on January 26, 2018 in Davos, eastern Switzerland. / AFP PHOTO / Fabrice COFFRINIFABRICE COFFRINI/AFP/Getty Images
  • Tuesday, 23 January, 2018
    The week in Davos
    Christine Lagarde: global economic growth can fight inequality

    From corruption to climate change, the threats to our economies and our world ignore borders

    Newly-hired employees of Japan Airlines (JAL) group pose for photos during an initiation ceremony at a hangar of Haneda airport in Tokyo, Japan, April 3, 2017. REUTERS/Toru Hanai TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RC16B2972C60
  • Sunday, 21 January, 2018
    Globalisation
    Davos: social crisis demands ‘qualitative easing’ — and business must lead

    Today’s crisis requires stakeholders to engage in determined effort to rebuild foundations of society, writes Klaus Schwab

    FILE - In this Sept. 17, 2011 file photo, demonstrators in the Occupy Wall Street movement gather to call for the occupation of Wall Street in New York. Alumni of the Occupy Wall Street protest are gathering Saturday, Sept. 17, 2016 in the New York City park that they took over five years ago to mark the anniversary of the movement. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)
  • Friday, 20 January, 2017
    News in-depthWorld Economic Forum in Davos
    Tech leaders at Davos fret over effect of AI on jobs

    Silicon Valley fears vilification like bankers for prospering at expense of everyman

  • Thursday, 12 January, 2017
    Globalisation
    World leaders reckon with a global rebalancing

    Interdependence is seen as weakness and nationalism has been rekindled

    Members of the French far right party Front National hold banners reading "100% Front National, 0% Migrants" during a rally on October 29, 2016 in Digoin, central eastern France, to protest against the hosting of migrants after they have been evicted from the Calais' 'Jungle' camp. / AFP / ROMAIN LAFABREGUE        (Photo credit should read ROMAIN LAFABREGUE/AFP/Getty Images)
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