The Global Public Policy Network (GPPN) is a partnership between Columbia University, the London School of Economics and Political Science, the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore and Sciences Po, Paris. The mission of GPPN is to address the most pressing public policy challenges of the 21st century and, as a result, to have policy impact, to be influential in public policy education and training and to be innovative in teaching and research. GPPN is global both in the geographical spread of its members and in its focus on emerging global trends in public policy.

The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is a world class centre for its concentration of teaching and research across the full range of the social, political and economic sciences. Founded in 1895, it has an outstanding reputation for academic excellence. It is unusual in combining a highly international staff and student community with a teaching and research focus exclusively on the social sciences, and in particular on their application to real-world problems and issues. From its foundation LSE has aimed to be a place where ideas are developed, analysed, evaluated and disseminated around the globe.

Columbia University is one of the world's most important centres of research and at the same time a distinctive and distinguished learning environment for undergraduates and graduate students in many scholarly and professional fields. It recognizes the importance of its location in New York City and seeks to link its research and teaching to the vast resources of a great metropolis. It expects all areas of the university to advance knowledge and learning at the highest level and to convey the products of its efforts to the world.

The Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy is a graduate school of the National University of Singapore, a comprehensive University founded in 1905, which today ranks as one of the worldÂ’s leading institutions of higher learning. Established in 2004, the LKY School has quickly emerged as the premier public policy school in Asia. With over 330 full-time Master and PhD students from over 50 countries, the LKY School aims to inspire the next generation of Asian and global policymakers and leaders and in so doing contribute to improving the lives of people around the world

Sciences Po was founded in 1872. It has, through many transformations, remained true to one goal: providing innovative, responsive, well-grounded education for leadership and service. Sciences Po, Paris is an internationally renowned centre of learning and scholarship in the humanities and social Sciences. It functions as a selective research university in the international sense of the term, bridging the worlds of academia and public affairs in order to offer the analytical and leadership skills required by future leaders around the globe.

The Agence Française de Développement (AFD) is a major operator of French official development assistance (ODA), together with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Finance. Since its creation in 1941, it has been contributing to the development of more than 80 countries as well as to the promotion of French overseas territories. As a financing institution, AFD supports economic, social and environmental projects, with a wide range of instruments from grants to loans on concessional or market terms. Its field of intervention covers productive projects in agriculture, industry or services, either public or private; infrastructure; urban development; education; health; and environment.

The Central European University (CEU), founded in 1991, is a new model for international education, a major convener on contemporary economic, social and political challenges, and a source of support for building open and democratic societies that respect human rights. CEU today is a global institution of graduate education in the social sciences, the humanities, law, management, environmental studies, government and public policy, with students from over 100 countries, and a faculty drawn from major universities across the world.

The Hertie School of Governance was founded as a private, non-profit institution in October 2003, making it one of the first professional schools for public policy in Germany. It is an international teaching and research centre of excellence that prepares students for leadership positions in government, business, and civil society. An internationally-recruited faculty, interdisciplinary in outlook, research, and teaching, offers analytically-challenging and practice-oriented courses on governance, policy analysis, management, and leadership. By offering programmes emphasising academic excellence and practical orientation in the reunified capital of Berlin, the Hertie School of Governance became a unique educational institution in Germany.