The Resume

(March 30, 1938- )
Born in Ravensburg, Germany
Founder/CEO of the World Economic Forum (January 1971)
UN Advisory Board member (1993-95)
Publisher of the Global Competitiveness Report
Founded the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship (1998)
Author of 'The Fourth Industrial Revolution' (2016), 'Shaping the Fourth Industrial Revolution' (2018) and 'Covid-19: The Great Reset' (2020)
No relation to Charles Schwab

Why he might be annoying:

He used ghostwriters for all of his books.
He is the latest bogeyman for NWO conspiracy theorists (because George Soros is so 2010!)
He has been accused of arguing for using the COVID-19 pandemic as an opportunity to 'reset' the global economy.
Case in point, he wrote in a WEF article declaring: 'To achieve a better outcome the world must act jointly and swiftly to revamp all aspects of our societies ... Every country must participate, and every industry, from oil and gas to tech, must be transformed. In short, we need a Great Reset of capitalism.'

Why he might not be annoying:

He has received over a dozen honorary doctorates.
He taught business policy at the University of Geneva for over thirty years.
His wife of nearly fifty years is his professional collaborator.
He has championed a multistakeholder concept since the WEF’s inception.
He was awarded the Dan David Prize in 2004 for his advocacy by Israel.
He used the $1 million prize money from the Dan David Prize to found the Forum of Young Global Leaders that same year.

Credit: BoyWiththeGreenHair

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• BoyWiththeGreenHair’s Profiles [Series 17]
• I Attended Harvard
• I Married in 1971
• Look at Me, Yes You! - Finger Pointers
• Profiles 47501-47750 (Ranked: 47745)
• Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People of 2007 [May 2007]

Year In Review:

In 2023, Out of 114 Votes: 69.30% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 1159 Votes: 59.28% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 12 Votes: 91.67% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 5 Votes: 100% Annoying