The Global Leadership Program offers a transformative experience to build the professional capacity of mid-career practitioners from government, the private sector, international organizations, civil society and academia.

This program will provide an opportunity for you as participants to:

• Improve your knowledge about global developments in politics, security and economics, as well as their impact on state and society
• Analyze current, past and anticipated changes occurring in the fields of global politics, security and economics
• Build your critical thinking through a unique learning environment, by inviting experienced practitioners and scholars from diverse fields in an interactive atmosphere of debate
• To broaden your professional network across cultures and professional domains through their interaction with peers and experts engaging on the course
• To challenge you in a safe environment where you can practice debating, share lessons learned and engage in conversations with diverse experts

Module 2: Global Security 

The global security landscape has changed radically, with the expansion of new threats and their linkages to each other. While states remain the key organizing principle of international relations, security is no longer centralized and the term security itself has taken on new meanings.
Terrorism, extremist movements, non-state actors, state failures and decay, weapons proliferation, refugee flows, climate change, organized crime, the role of technology and artificial intelligence, and devastating regional conflicts are all significant threats to national and global security. This module will provide an understanding of the evolution in how we comprehend security policy today, as well an overview of key challenges and opportunities from multiple dimensions –political, legal, economic etc.

Featured topics include:

• The Evolving Nature of Security
• Transnational Challenges in the 21st Century
• The Future of Warfare: Weapons & Technologies
• Conflict & Crisis Management I
• A World of Regions; Crisis Management II

Learning objectives

In this module, participants acquire the understanding of how challenges and risks of global security are linked to each other in complex and dynamic ways; they experience in real time specific complex crises and acquire tools in strengthening security in different sectors. The participants create together with the experts an interactive environment to brainstorm for further solutions and networks.

• Government officials who wish to gain a deep understanding of political, security and economic trends in order to be able to see developments within a larger context.
• Aspiring corporate officials to have a more comprehensive understanding of the opportunities and obstacles present in the international sphere to improve their chances for successful business.
• Mid- to high-level professionals who seek a qualitative edge to the information they receive and to the relationships they want to build.

Participants in the program will have the opportunity to choose whether they wish to attend individual modules, or to attend the entire three module program. In this way, the program provides flexibility according to the main interest of the participants.

Each module involves one week of full-time training in Geneva. Participants who are accepted must confirm their availability for the entire period of one, two or three modules and attend all sessions during the module(s).

The fee for the Global Leadership Program: 

• Package of three modules is CHF 12,500
• Individual modules are CHF 5000

The tuition price includes participation in all the sessions of the program, all necessary conference materials and readings, as well as lunches for the entire week and a welcome dinner on a selected evening.

The fee does not include travel expenses to and from Geneva nor hotel accommodation. Preferential rates are available at several hotels in Geneva.
Payment of the conference fee is due in full prior to the start of the program.