Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship
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The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship provides platforms at the country, regional and global levels to promote social entrepreneurship.
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[edit] 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.
Pamela Hartigan, who joined in October 2000, was its first managing director.
[edit] Foundation Board
As of January 2011, the Foundation Board[1] consisted of:
- Hilde Schwab (Chairperson, Co-Founder)
- Klaus Schwab (Co-Founder)
- Stephen Brenninkmeijer (Private Investor, Anthos, United Kingdom)
- Paulo Coelho (Brazilian author)
- David Gergen (Director, Center for Public Leadership, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, USA)
- Martin C. Halusa (Chief Executive Officer, Apax Partners LLP, United Kingdom)
- Princess Mathilde of Belgium (Honorary Board Member)
- Zanele Mbeki (Former First Lady of South Africa)
- Muhammad Yunus (Managing Director of Bangladesh's Grameen Bank)
