Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship
- Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship
The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship provides platforms at the country, regional and global levels that highlight social entrepreneurship as a key element to advance societies and address social problems. The Schwab Foundation does not give grants.
Foundation Board
As of July 2007, the Foundation Board [ [http://www.schwabfound.org/board.htm The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship ] ] consisted of:
*Hilde Schwab (Chairperson, Co-Founder)
*Klaus Schwab (Co-Founder)
*Paulo Coelho (Brazilian author)
*David Gergen (Director, Center for Public Leadership, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, USA)
*Muhammad Yunus (Managing Director of Bangladesh's Grameen Bank)
*Zanele Mbeki (First Lady of South Africa)
*Lord David Puttnam (Chairman of UK's National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA))
*Quincy Jones (US Composer)
*Stephen Brenninkmeijer (Chief Executive Officer, Andromeda Fund BV, United Kingdom)
History
Professor Klaus Schwab created the World Economic Forum as an independent not-for-profit foundation in 1971.
In 1998, Klaus Schwab and his wife Hilde decided to create a second complementary foundation, the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, with the purpose to promote social innovation.
References
External links
* [http://www.schwabfound.org Schwab Foundation website]
* [http://www.weforum.org World Economic Forum website]
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