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Empowering the next generation of responsible leaders

A global initiative of the University of Oxford and

the St Gallen Symposium

12-16 December 2024

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100

Young Leaders

20

Senior Advisors

3

Challenges

1

Vision

A Transformative Experience

Every year, the Global Leadership Challenge convenes 100 young leaders from over 50 countries to advance leadership that makes a difference in the world. Working with experienced experts in their fields, they co-create impact projects for the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

GLC 2023 featured over 15 speakers and senior advisors, including, including John L. Hennessy, Chairman of Alphabet Inc., Marianne Janik, CEO of Microsoft Germany, and Dominic Barton, former Global Managing Partner at McKinsey and currently Chairman of Rio Tinto.

Vision

GLC aims to empower emerging leaders to grow in the wisdom and character required for leadership that makes a difference in the world. Last year, we focused on the theme of "Confronting Scarcity":

How can we tackle the multidimensional phenomena of shrinking workforces, higher costs of capital, trade disruptions and depleted natural resources in a sustainable way?

Impact

GLC convenes global young talents and responsible leaders to champion a new approach to leadership and co-create action projects contributing to the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Throughout the five-day challenge, participants engage in character education, cross-generational dialogues, and develop a wide range of action projects with impact for their communities around the world.

Our SDG Challenges

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Past GLC

GLC 2022 took place from 8 - 12 December 2022, bringing together 100 participants and 20 Senior Advisors from 80+ countries. The participants developed action projects under a three challenges theme, all of which directly contributed to the UN SDGs.

GLC Partners

Together with our partners, we aim to empower the next generation of responsible leaders.

Explore Partners

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Agenda of GLC 2023

Tentative Agenda

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