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If we got paid for all the times we heard ‘water is life’, we probably would not need it anymore; we’d be drinking, bathing, and doing everything else with gold – that’s how wealthy we’d be. How important is this most vital of natural resources? On the 28th of July […]

An interview with Joseph Nye Today’s world is complex and highly interdependent. To deal with this complexity, we need new Governance structures to be established. And we need young leaders who are able to think out of the box, to work interdisciplinary and to find socially sustainable solutions. Which role […]

This article is the foreword published in “Redefining Success”, written by Thomas Rausch. For decades, decision-makers in politics and business have measured success in “hard currency”: the GDP of an economy or the profit of a company have served as the gold standard of their respective welfare. The global economic […]

This post was produced for the Global Economic Symposium 2013. Read more at http://blog.global-economic-symposium.org/. The two days of the GES have been unlike any other experience in my life, academic or not. It wasn’t just the solution-oriented environment of the Symposium, the holistic approach to the topics or the sheer […]

This post was produced for the Global Economic Symposium 2013. Read more at http://blog.global-economic-symposium.org/. John Hope Bryant sat down with FutureChallenges contributor Jamie Stark after speaking at the 2013 Global Economic Symposium in Kiel, Germany. Bryant is the founder and chief executive of Operation Hope, Inc., a global nonprofit dedicated to […]