Global Economic Symposium

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About the Global Economic Symposium

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The Global Economic Symposium (GES) is a unique Solution Forum, which identifies global challenges, examines their policy and business implications, and formulates concrete action responses to create a better world for the next generation and thereby being a catalyst for change. In addition, it is research-based as every panel of the GES is organized by researchers and an international expert-team supported by the VGES, the virtual platform of the GES. And it is an intergenerational dialogue as the next generation can participate in the all-the-year GES process through the Global Economic Student Association and the Global Economic Fellows Program. The results of the Symposium are published in a document entitled the Global Economic Solutions, which are presented and submitted to several major international organizations and national governments.

The 2011 Global Economic Symposium is dedicated to "New forces of global governance,". It will be held on October 4-6 in Kiel. 400 leading decision makers from the political, business, academic and civil society spheres will convene to formulate solutions to the most pressing global problems.

Organisers

The Bertelsmann Stiftung and the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW) will jointly organize the Global Economic Symposium (GES) in cooperation with the the German National Library of Economics (ZBW), the Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, the world's largest specialist library for economics.

What distinguishes the GES is that it is:

Action-Oriented: Its central question is "What is to be done?" It aims to formulate and review policy and business strategies for addressing global problems.

Research-Based: Its sessions are all supported by state-of-the-art research and its outcomes are meant to generate new research agendas.

Interactive: The stakeholders of the GES interact in the Virtual GES (the internet platform of the GES) before and after the Symposium, as leverage to the exchange of ideas during the event.

What can you do?

As part of the public

  • Learn more about the trends
  • Invite policy-makers
  • Spread the message

As policy maker

  • Learn more about the trends
  • Share your proposals
  • Draft cross-policy papers
  • Spread the message
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