Foundation Board

The Board directs and oversees the activities of the Foundation

Hilde Schwab
President and Co-Founder, Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship

"The most rewarding aspect of the Foundation has been for me to be able to identify and give a platform to so many outstanding social entrepreneurs who deserve to be better known in the world for what they are doing to improve peoples lives."

Klaus Schwab
Co-Founder, Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship

"We deeply believe that economic as well as social progress can best be achieved through entrepreneurship. With the Foundation we are able to encourage and foster individual entrepreneurs who are devoting their lives to social innovation, by integrating them into a community of expertise exchange and global impact."

Paulo Coelho

"As a mysterious chain of connections and contacts, there is a silent way about solidarity in that if you strive hard you put the right person in front of you at the right time. It is about the human being, solidarity, lighting a flame in the dark. It is about what you did and what you're doing. It is about perseverance, overcoming your fears and respecting your intuition which guides you, and keeping your expectations very, very high." 

David Gergen
Director, Center for Public Leadership, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, USA

Zanele Mbeki
Former First Lady of South Africa
 
"Imagine the transformation that could occur if these social entrepreneurs were allowed to implement their initiatives in one single developing country."

Muhammad Yunus
Managing Director, Grameen Bank, Bangladesh

"If I were a venture capitalist, I would provide funding for each one of these entrepreneurs. If I were a Hollywood producer, I would make a film to tell each one of their stories."