{"id":314,"date":"2007-01-26T11:22:05","date_gmt":"2007-01-26T10:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=314"},"modified":"2007-01-26T11:22:05","modified_gmt":"2007-01-26T10:22:05","slug":"who-is-klaus-schwab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=314","title":{"rendered":"Who is Klaus Schwab?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He is the founder and chairman of the World Economic Forum which has been meeting annually in Davos, Switzerland, for the past 36 years.<br \/>\nKlaus himself is a German-born 68 year old academic who has been a professor of business policy at Geneva University since 1972. Last year, I was at <a href=\"http:\/\/s170032534.websitehome.co.uk\/nighthawk-static\/permalink.php?id=2648_0_1_60\">a conference in Geneva<\/a> which he addressed. You can read a profile of him <a href=\"http:\/\/business.guardian.co.uk\/davos2007\/story\/0,,1999176,00.html\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nThe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weforum.org\/en\/index.htm\">World Economic Forum<\/a> brings together a network of some 2,400 global decision-makers and is currently in session. This year, one of the attendees is Phillip Jennings, the  General Secretary of the global union Union Network International in which I was active when I was a national trade union official. He has used the event to attack the growing influence of private equity firms. You can read about his views <a href=\"http:\/\/business.guardian.co.uk\/story\/0,,1998997,00.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He is the founder and chairman of the World Economic Forum which has been meeting annually in Davos, Switzerland, for the past 36 years. Klaus himself is a German-born 68 year old academic who has been a professor of business policy at Geneva University since 1972. Last year, I was at a conference in Geneva [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}