Professor Klaus Schwab is founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum the
International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation. In 1998 he created the Schwab
Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship which seeks to identify recognize and disseminate
initiatives in social entrepreneurship that have the potential to be replicated on a global
scale. An engineer and economist by training Professor Klaus Schwab holds doctorates in
Economics (summa cum laude) from the University of Fribourg in Engineering from the Swiss
Federal Institute of Technology and a Masters of Public Administration from the Kennedy School
of Government at Harvard University. He has received numerous international and national
honours.
