Analysis

Klaus Schwab, The World Economic Forum, And The New Fascism

The Great Jet Set | Part 3: Who is Klaus Schwab?

Larry Alex Taunton
Klaus Schwab, The World Economic Forum, And The New Fascism
Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images

The biography of Klaus Schwab, founder and chairman of the World Economic Forum, is murky at best. Several portraits of Schwab emerge in any effort to find out precisely who he is: 

The avuncular misunderstood philanthropist and lover of humanity; a secret Nazi avenging his country’s defeat in a war that he can still remember; the hard-driven politician-at-large hellbent on turning his brainchild, the WEF, into an office of global governance; or the smarmy Mr. Networker Guy who likes nothing more than rubbing elbows with the rich and famous with himself as the master of ceremonies.

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