Some people had guessed that the German Management Symposium would become the most prestigious country club in the world when a young, bespectacled educational established it in Davos, Switzerland, more than fifty years ago.
Klaus Schwab , started , his symposium with$ 6, 000 in seed money and turned it into the World Economic Forum ( WEF ) —an impressive cash machine that generates approximately ,$ 500 million  , per year.
Klaus Schwab speaking during the German Management Symposium, the president of the World Economic Forum, in Davos, Switzerland, in 1974. ( World Economic Forum/Flickr )
As late as last year, the , consensus , from WEF officials was that Schwab had likely , death in office—like a king or the Pope. In 2017, Schwab had tapped the former Norway foreign secretary, Børge Brende, to serve as president. Brende is commonly described as a” liberal” politician though his high- standing positions at the United Nations, the Bilderberg Conference, and a bevy of other global oligarchs side gigs, his , resume , betrays his Schwabian priorities.
Before joining WEF, Brende created a controversy in Norway when his company was  , accused , of violating the country’s international aid rules by funneling millions of dollars to the Clinton Foundation.
Despite Brende’s 2017 development, Schwab officially , remained , in total control of the business. And it is obvious why the typical” Davos Man” would prefer to stay in electricity: Klaus and his family, who have contributed millions of dollars to their personal accounts and tens of millions to their personal basis, have been extremely successful there.
World Economic Forum ( WEF ) Founder and Executive Chairman Klaus Schwab ( right ) speaks with Managing Director Borge Brende on January 18, 2012, during a news conference at the WEF headquarters in Cologny, Switzerland. ( FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images )
Schwab ‘s , children , and , nephew , have all been on WEF’s generous payroll over the years and the Schwab’s private air travel, meals, and a palatial estate ( that was conjoined with the posh Davos headquarters campus after WEF , spent ,$ 80 million to purchase the adjacent parcels ) were just some of the many perks that the WEF founder enjoyed.
However, Schwab made an announcement this month that he would be leaving his current position of WEF Chairman by January 2025.
This differentiation may seem like one with a few differences, but that is because it is. Schwab’s successor—widely expected to be Brende, who has been running the day- to- day for the past year—will be handpicked by him, according to Article 11 of the WEF ‘s , governing statutes , which states that” the founder designates his successor”.
The more critical change, nonetheless, is the one that the forum itself will be making: “from a convening platform to the leading international institution for public- personal cooperation”. A meeting of businessmen and bureaucrats flying on personal jets to an exclusive conference in the Swedish alps will be there for Davos to express their concerns about climate change and to be more actively involved in the decision-making process that governs every aspect of our lives.
Attendees in the Congress Center on the closing day of the World Economic Forum ( WEF ) in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 19, 2024. ( Stefan Wermuth/Bloomberg via Getty Images )
As my book , Controligarchs , documents thoroughly, “public- personal partnerships” are the recommended method for appointed foreign elites and thought leaders from the globalist NGOs and think tank intelligentsia to exert their social will while avoiding any form of transparency or accountability. This implies that businesses that are only loyal to Davos are given the authority to operate in the state. This implies that the state can conceal behind the secrecy that corporations have been granted to protect intellectual property and proprietary work products.
The COVID , pandemic response—the lockdowns, the mandates, the vaccine passports— was a public- private partnership. The de facto abolition of the First Amendment via big tech censorship of “misinformation” is a public- private partnership. The use of “inclusive” ( read: woke ) digital education programs to indoctrinate students is a public- private partnership. Addressing the so- called , climate crisis—which means everything from banning your favorite cars, to you gas- powered stoves, to even making meat prohibitively expensive—is achieved via public- private partnerships. Tackling threats of , mass unemployment , that may result from the artificial intelligence revolution will require public- private partnerships. WEF has plans for everything and more.
Since Schwab announced the Great Reset, and even before that, it has become clear that the WEF is the world’s premier organization for public-private partnerships. You would have been labeled a conspiracy theorist if you had asserted that the WEF wanted to exert complete control over everything through international cooperation. Their stated , mission, until now, was” Improving the State of the World”.
By announcing a pivot from a” convening” organization to an organization with direct influence over public ( read: government ) activities, they have acknowledged that not only is the WEF not going anywhere, but they plan to ramp up their control over every aspect of our lives.
Seamus Bruner is the author of , Controligarchs: Exposing the Billionaire Class, Their Secret Deals, and the Globalist Plot to Dominate Your Life , and Peter Schweizer’s Head of Research at the Government Accountability Institute. Follow him , @SeamusBruner
