Shalini Ramachandran
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So Davos is an alpine city in Switzerland. That's our colleague Shalini Ramachandran. It's the site of this annual meeting that brings together the planet's power brokers from like morning to past midnight. Meetings over coffee and cocktails and fondue and there are thousands of CEOs and billionaires.
queens and kings and presidents who descend on this place.
You know, you can run into Al Gore in the hotel bar or Bill Gates near the metal detectors or Sting in the elevator. And it's about networking and it's about making deals and talking about big ideas.
To improve the state of the world. That was the tagline, you know, to make the world a better place.
Based on our reporting, what they publicly stand for, things like gender equality and uplifting women, they're at odds with the way that a lot of people inside the World Economic Forum's own organization have been treated by senior bosses.
The World Economic Forum is now investigating its founder, the top boss, and now he's leaving under a cloud of suspicion and with allegations hanging over him.
So, Klaus Schwab founded the World Economic Forum in 1971, and he started it as something called the European Management Forum.
And he kind of experienced the post-World War II reconstruction timeframe, and he became a professor.
He loved this concept of a multi-stakeholder participation, which basically means governments and businesses and nonprofits work together to accomplish important goals. He believed that when these people work together, problems can be solved faster.
Klaus Schwab became the ultimate powerful person, this uber connector of all these power players, the CEOs, the queens, the presidents, the prime ministers.
What I learned was, you know, there's a dark side to this organization behind these glitzy Davos annual meetings. We heard a lot of examples of sexual harassment, pregnancy related discrimination and racial discrimination. Based on our reporting, there's at least two instances of managers using the N-word.
She reported the boss to Human Resources and nothing happened.
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