Time crowns Klaus Schwab and Roger Federer
WEF President Klaus Schwab and Swiss tennis pro Roger Federer have been named by US news magazine Time to its list of the 100 most influential people.
WEF President Klaus Schwab and Swiss tennis pro Roger Federer have been named by US news magazine Time to its list of the 100 most influential people.
Side by side with Al Gore, Angela Merkel, Nobel Prize winner John Mather, Microsoft founder Paul Allen, but also Osama Bin Laden, there are also two Swiss on the list of those 100 men and women whose power, talent or moral example changes the world. The list is compiled annually by the U.S. news magazine Tim in cooperation with CNN. Each winner is honored by an equally, if not more, prominent writer in a short tribute.
About Schwab, the founder of the World Economic Forum (WEF), former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan wrote that they were actually in the same business: "We are people who organize global meetings. And yours were usually livelier than mine ... after all, you throw much the better parties than I do." The only tennis player ever to win all the Grand Slam titles in one year is Rod Laver. The latter praises our King Roger for his modesty, camaraderie and, of course, his tennis: "You can only marvel at that.
Side by side with Al Gore, Angela Merkel, Nobel Prize winner John Mather, Microsoft founder Paul Allen, but also Osama Bin Laden, there are also two Swiss on the list of those 100 men and women whose power, talent or moral example changes the world. The list is compiled annually by the U.S. news magazine Tim in cooperation with CNN. Each winner is honored by an equally, if not more, prominent writer in a short tribute.
About Schwab, the founder of the World Economic Forum (WEF), former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan wrote that they were actually in the same business: "We are people who organize global meetings. And yours were usually livelier than mine ... after all, you throw much the better parties than I do." The only tennis player ever to win all the Grand Slam titles in one year is Rod Laver. The latter praises our King Roger for his modesty, camaraderie and, of course, his tennis: "You can only marvel at that.
