When: Thursday, September 23, 2021, 9am-12pm EDT
Topic: Harnessing Our Mutual Responsibilities to Solve Global Challenges
Free Registration: click here to register
Description: As the Delta variant spreads across the world, a global end to the pandemic still seems far from clear. A recent climate change report provides a grim prognosis without an actionable agenda. Fueled by the flames of the pandemic and climate change, poverty and inequality continue unabated.
Why, why, and why?
Why aren’t we able to adequately address these issues and take action? How can we come together to make a difference? Recognizing the mutual responsibilities of our deep global interdependence is not charity or idealism but, instead, the best available path toward building a safer future for all.
On Thursday, September 23, the second annual global interdependence summit, “Rise or Fall Together: Harnessing Our Mutual Responsibilities to Solve Global Challenges,” will bring together some of the world’s most inspiring experts, artists and advocates to explore how we can best build a world where leaders at all levels do a far better job of balancing our narrower national, corporate, and tribal interests with our broader interests as humans sharing the same planet.
#RiseOrFallTogether #OneSharedWorld
Ajay Banga | Executive Chairman, Mastercard
Manish Bapna | President and CEO, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
Jackie Chimhanzi | CEO, African Leadership Institute
Julio Frenk | President, University of Miami
Sandi Gendi | OneShared.World Director of Global Leadership
Dr. Lawrence O. Gostin | University Professor, Georgetown University, Founding O’Neill Chair in Global Health Law, Faculty Director, O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law; Director, World Health Organization Collaborating Center on National & Global Health Law
Naina Lal Kidwai | Chair, India Sanitation Coalition
Precious Malebona Matsoso | Former Director General, National Department of Health, South Africa
Jamie Metzl | OneShared.World Founder and Chair
Jay Naidoo | Board Member, Mo Ibrahim Foundation; Former Minister, Reconstruction and Development, South Africa
Arturo O’Farrill | World-renowned composer and musician and Founder and Artistic Director of the Afro Latin Jazz Alliance; OneShared.World Global Artist
Annie Pforzheimer | Thirty-years career diplomat from the U.S. Department of State, Senior Non-Resident Associate at CSIS, member of the Council on Foreign Relations
Kevin Rudd | President and CEO, Asia Society; former Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Australia
Shagun Sethi | OneShared.World Director of Global Leadership; Manager, Pontoka
Dr. Rajiv J. Shah | President, The Rockefeller Foundation
I Gusti Putu Sudarta | Musician, composer, dancer and shadow master from the village of Bedulu in Bali, Indonesia; permanent faculty member in the theater department at the Indonesian Institute of the Arts in Denpasar, Bali
Soumya Swaminathan | Chief Scientist, WHO
Peter Ullrich | Project Coordinator, OneShared.World WASHPAP Campaign
Equal Participation of Women and Men in Power and Decision-Making Roles.
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