Davos forum founder Klaus Schwab to step down

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Klaus Schwab, the 86-year-old founder of the World Economic Forum, is to resign as its executive chair after more than half century at the helm of the world’s pre-eminent business conference.

Schwab has presided over the annual gathering in the Swiss ski resort of Davos since founding it in 1971, turning it into a…