The rules-based international system is broken. And our world has never been more divided. The tectonic shifts in global economics and geopolitics will continue as long as the battle for hegemony intensifies in a fractured world.

From corporate boardrooms to multilateral institutions and from the ivory towers to the political campaign trail, many believe it’s a crisis of leadership.

Beyond the left-right and North–South binary narratives, we are convening global leaders and thinkers to generate actionable insights and help devise pragmatic solutions to the most pressing challenges of our time.

Beyond history, economic theory, and other subjective approximations of reality, grit and courageous leadership are on the front burner of the inquiry process.