New Thinking for a New World

Democracy and democratic institutions were under severe pressure well before the novel Coronavirus appeared. Could the added burden of the pandemic break the back of democracy as we have known it? How worried should we be by governments proclaiming wartime powers and instituting new kinds of location and information tracking, all in the name of safety?

Gabriela Cuevas, Mexican Congresswoman and Inter-Parliamentary Union President, and Paula DiPerna, strategic environmental advisor and former U.S. congressional candidate, discuss the risk that our democracies could be another casualty of Covid-19—and what we should do about it.

Both Gabriela and Paula have served as jurors for the Tällberg/Eliasson Global Leadership Prize.

The Tällberg Foundation is supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF.org)

Anne Goldfeld, 2019 Tällberg/Eliasson Global Leadership Prize winner, is a clinician and a medical doctor with long experience—in the lab and on the front lines of care—with epidemics. Together with Alan Stoga, the Tällberg Foundation’s chairman, she discusses what we know about Covid19 and what we still need to learn--and why it is a global problem that needs a global response.

The Tällberg Foundation is supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF.org)

Rafael Yuste, a professor of biological sciences at Columbia University and a 2018 Tällberg Eliasson Global Leader speaks with Alan Stoga, the Tällberg Foundation’s chairman about recent and prospective progress in neuroscience. Could our evolving understanding of the human brain lead to a new Renaissance? What are the implications of this new knowledge? How do we protect each individual’s neural identity?

The Tällberg Foundation is supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF.org)

The three 2019 Tällberg/Eliasson Global Leadership Prize winners meet after their participation in the “New Thinking in a New World” workshop in Nairobi, Kenya. Anne Goldfield, Faustin Linyekula and Saul Griffith share their perspectives on the future and their relationship with it. Together they discover how their respective expertise - medicine, dance and fighting climate change - are all fueled by the mystery of the unknown and desire to explore it.

The Tällberg Foundation is supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF.org)

Are Western democracies the model to emulate for non-Western countries or do they require different models? Do democracies sufficiently represent all their constituents? How are minorities protected?

Kenneth Lusaka (The Rt. Hon. Speaker of the Senate, Parliament of the Republic of Kenya), David Sperling (Research Professor and Senior Research Fellow, Strathmore Governance Centre; Kenya ) and Ulrika Karlsson (Special Advisor on Global Health, Inter-Parliamentary Union) recently discussed some of these questions within the scope of “New Thinking for a New World.” The discussion was facilitated by Maarten Koets, a board member of the Tällberg Foundation.

Our initial podcast was recorded in Nairobi, Kenya, after a Tällberg Workshop. Three members of the Tällberg Foundation community reflect on “New Thinking for a New World.” Optimism or pessimism about the future may have less to do with facts, and more to do with filters: young or old, local or global, African or western.  

Participating in the conversation are Tällberg Foundation board member Mark Abdollahian (CEO, ACERTAS and Professor, Claremont Graduate University, US) and Tällberg/Eliasson Global Leadership Prize jury member Vishakha Desai (Senior Advisor for Global Affairs to the President of Columbia University) and it is moderated by Tällberg Foundation’s chairman Alan Stoga.

The Tällberg Foundation is supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF.org)

This conversation is an excerpt from the session “Leadership for a Better Future”
that our partner De Balie hosted during the Tällberg Workshop in Amsterdam in 2016.

The Tällberg Foundation Global Leaders that are participating in the discussion are Eleni Antoniadou, Christiana Figueres, Sunitha Krishnan, Thuli Madonsela and Celina de Sola.

The session was moderated by Jeroen Smit

This is a live recording in Amsterdam, November 28, 2016.

To lead or not to lead was the theme of the Tällberg Workshop that celebrated the accomplishments of the 2016 Tällberg Foundation Global Leaders. These 5 women have remarkable qualities, that spurred us to question what kind of leadership is required to counter the challenges of the 21st century.

This podcast is a live recording from an event at De Balie in Amsterdam, November 29 2016.

The session was moderated by  Yoeri Albrecht, Director of De Balie, Amsterdam
 The Tällberg Foundation Global Leaders 2016 that are participating in the discussion are Eleni Antoniadou, Christiana Figueres, Sunitha Krishnan, Thuli Madonsela and Celina de Sola.

A conversation recorded at the workshop “What’s Leadership got to do with it” November 10-11, 2015 with two Tällberg Foundation Global Leaders, Jamila Afghani, Jason Glaser and musician activist Ramy Essam moderated by Muni Figueres, former Ambassador of Costa Rica to the US and Tällberg Foundation board member. How and why did they decide to act and become an activist? How did thy make the transition from being a private person to a public person, an activist?

A conversation recorded at the workshop “What’s Leadership got to do with it” November 10-11, 2015 with two Tällberg Foundation Global Leaders, Antonella Battaglini, Founder and CEO of the Renewables Grid Initiative (RGI) in Berlin, Germany and Martín von Hildebrand, Founder and General Director, Fundación Gaia Amazonas in Bogotá, Colombia. The conversation is moderated by Tom Cummings, Leadership Ventures, The Netherlands and Tällberg Foundation board member. On the topic how they engage with governments, institutions and communities in their work.