Global Ethics Forum 2024
Ethical Leadership for a Re-envisioned Future
The Global Ethics Forum is a global solution-focused, multisectoral and multistakeholder platform for dialogue, networking, and engagement, convening institutions, policymakers, senior experts, and practitioners from the private sector, higher education, governments, multilateral, nongovernmental, and faith-based organisations, among others.
The 2024 Global Ethics Forum is an opportunity to envision the future of the world and humanity from the ethical leadership perspective. The Forum will discuss the topics of peace, sustainability, digital revolution, and higher education from the perspective of ethical leadership for a better future for all. A specific focus will be dedicated to intercultural dialogue and societal engagement for de-polarisation and conflict prevention, the impact of AI on higher education, and the scope and role of ethical leadership beyond compliance frameworks.
Guest speaker
Martin Chungong, Secretary-General, Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU). Cameroon.
Martin Chungong became the first African and first non-European to be elected IPU Secretary General in 2014. He was re-elected to a third term of office, which began in July 2022. With more than four decades of experience and knowledge of parliaments at national and international levels, he has dedicated his professional life to promoting and building democracy worldwide. He is highly committed to rejuvenating democracy, its processes and institutions and is driving the IPU’s efforts to bring more young people into parliaments worldwide.
Confirmed speakers
Programme
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- High-level policy engagement organised in collaboration with the Forum’s partners.
- More than 12 panel sessions on diverse topics to re-envision the future in an ethical multistakeholder perspective, focused on three tracks:
- Track 1: Inclusive peace and development
- Track 2: The road for responsible governance
- Track 3: Trustworthy AI for a better future
- The launch of studies and policy reports, such as:
- The Global Survey of Business Ethics
- Policy Report on Rethinking Futures of Education in the Age of AI.
- Meet the author: Book presentations, discussion, and signing.
- Networking opportunities and cultural activities.
- The Globethics Youth Leadership Award 2024.
In addition to the celebration of the 20th anniversary of Globethics.
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Global Ethics Forum partners
GEF is a collaborative platform for multisectoral and multistakeholder policy dialogue. Therefore, Globethics invites the institutions and organisations working on the same agenda, to join this initiative, as:
- Strategic partner, by sharing the ownership, contributing to the organisation, and financing of the forum.
- Knowledge partner, by joining the reflection process and organising at least one session, inviting the related speakers, and promoting the forum throughout its network.
- Sponsor, by financially contributing to the event.
Strategic partners
Knowledge partners
Sponsors
About the Global Ethics Forum
The Global Ethics Forum (GEF) is a global, solution-focused, multisectoral and multistakeholder platform for dialogue, networking, and engagement, convening institutions, policymakers, senior experts, and practitioners from the private sector, higher education, governments, multilateral, nongovernmental, and faith-based organizations, among others.
The 2024 Global Ethics Forum is an opportunity to envision the future of the world and humanity from the ethical leadership perspective. Ethical leadership helps in navigating life through turbulent moments, such as the current one. This forward-looking perspective is based, on the one hand, on an evidence-based understanding of reality and its challenges, and, on the other hand, on the belief that a just, inclusive, and sustainable future is possible for all.
The zero draft of the UN Pact for the future, to be launched by the General Assembly in September 2024, alerts that “we are at a moment of acute global peril… Humanity faces a range of potentially catastrophic and existential risks. We are also at a moment of opportunity, where advances in knowledge and technology, properly managed, could deliver a better future for all.” (#2).
Indeed, polarisation and wars are sadly now part of our daily reality. The environmental crisis is revealing its disastrous consequences faster than the actions taken to mitigate them. The development and deployment of new technologies such as AI are raising hopes mixed with fears. More than ever, the future of the world depends on the way we will be able to manage these sociopolitical, ecological, and digital challenges. In our interconnected world, this trilogy forms a kind of integrated roadmap towards a better future.
To answer the global existential risks and transform the opportunities into equal chances for all, rather than deepening the divide, the world needs to be guided by ethical leadership. Multilateral and non-governmental organisations, companies, think tanks and visionary leaders are striving to identify the necessary responses to the current challenges. However, the complex reality of our world requires more integrated and multistakeholder engagement in the search for the solutions, ensuring that all voices are represented. The Global Ethics Forum is this needed space for transformational thought leadership, where the future is re-envisioned with hope and determination.
The Forum will discuss the topics of peace, sustainability, digital revolution and higher education from the perspective of ethical leadership for a better future for all. A specific focus will be dedicated to intercultural dialogue and societal engagement for de-polarisation and conflict prevention, the impact of AI on higher education, and the scope and role of ethical leadership beyond compliance frameworks.
Can't make it to Geneva to attend in person? Register here to follow the event online.