Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum (WEF), addresses a press conference at the WEF headquarters in Geneva, Jan. 15, 2014. The World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting scheduled for Jan. 22-26 in Davos of Switzerland would be a platform for global elites to probe into a variety of underlining issues in today's world, said founder of WEF on Wednesday. (Xinhua/Wang Siwei)