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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Klaus Martin
Schwab is a German economist, best known as the founder and executive
chairman of the World Economic Forum. His wife and former secretary,
Hilde, co-founded the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship with
him. He was born in 1938 in Ravensburg, Germany. In 1971, Schwab founded
the World Economic Forum as a not-for-profit foundation committed to
improving the state of the world, later building it into today's global
partnership of business, political, and intellectual leaders. In 1998,
Schwab and his wife founded the Schwab Foundation for Social
Entrepreneurship, a non-profit organization based in Geneva,
Switzerland. In 2004, Schwab created a new foundation using the US$ 1
million prize money from the Dan David Prize he received that year
