India, Feb. 27 -- Borge Brende has resigned as president and CEO of the World Economic Forum (WEF), and is stepping down after newly released documents by the Justice Department linked him to meetings and messages with the late financier Jeffrey Epstein.

Borge Brende was born on September 25 in 1965 and built his early career in Norwegian politics as a member of the Conservative Party. He served as minister of the environment from 2001 to 2004, minister of trade and industry (2004-2005) and minister of foreign affairs from 2013 to 2017. He also represented the Sor-Trondelag region in parliament from 1997 to 2009. He studied economics, law and history at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim.

Brende joined the W...