Author - GG 2020

Now is the time to build new bridges across the globe as strong as the one that bound us across the Atlantic,” affirmed US President Barack Obama when speaking in Berlin in the summer of 2008. To turn this vision into reality, Global Governance 2020 (GG2020) seeks to forge a strong and lasting strategic community of young leaders from China, Germany, and the United States. The program aims to connect those who have the ambition and imagination to shape the future of international institutions.

In the course of three dialogue sessions in Berlin, Shanghai, and Washington D.C. between January 2010 and January 2011, twenty-four GG2020 fellows, eight each from China, Germany and the US, will develop scenarios for the future of international institutions in the areas of peace/security, energy/climate change, and trade/finance. They draw on their diversity of backgrounds and experiences to explore new ways of effective global problem-solving.

Eighteen members of the GG2020 team were able to commit to writing for the Global Policy Blog.  We work in government, international organizations, non-governmental organizations, and academia. The aim is to bring a diversity of opinions together in a single forum to address key global challenges.  Naturally, we don’t always agree. You’ll find us getting into hard-hitting debates in this space just as often as working together in a cooperative spirit of global problem-solving.

The GG2020 program is jointly organized by the Global Public Policy Institute, the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, Fudan University, the Hertie School of Governance, the Brookings Institution and the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences. The GG2020 fellows are also supported by a private sector expert on trend analysis and scenario planning to produce innovative results. The GG2020 program is generously supported by the Robert Bosch Stiftung and the Transatlantic Program of the German Government (ERP Grant administered by the German Ministry for Economics and Technology).