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Climb a Tree!

Climb a Tree!

Winners of the Tällberg-SNF-Eliasson Global Leadership Prize typically have several things in common. They look at the big challenges confronting society as opportunities for innovation. They don’t...

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A Visionary Leader

A Visionary Leader

Andrew Bastawrous solves problems. As a well-trained, highly skilled ophthalmologist he was devoted to treating as many patients as possible, in Kenya and elsewhere in Africa. But even gifted...

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Can Humanity Trump Technology?

Can Humanity Trump Technology?

Meet the winners: Tristan Harris Tristan Harris, a recipient of the 2023 Tällberg-SNF-Eliasson Global Leadership Prize, is a leader who wants to make technology more humane, ethical, and aligned...

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A Leader With Roots in the Canopy

A Leader With Roots in the Canopy

Meet the winners: Dr. Meg Lowman Dr. Meg Lowman, a winner of the 2023 Tällberg-SNF-Eliasson Global Leadership Prize, has a vision of a world where people and nature live in harmony, where trees are...

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Man With a Vision

Man With a Vision

Meet the winners: Professor Andrew Bastawrous Professor Andrew Bastawrous is a man on a mission. He wants to end avoidable blindness and vision impairment everywhere in the world, and he has a...

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Creating user-friendly justice

Creating user-friendly justice

Muller is a self-described “justice junkie.” He spent his early career in international law working in hot zones, then moved on to work with the Yugoslav Tribunal and the ICC in the Hague. Those experiences left him convinced that justice systems could offer much more value for everyday people seeking fair outcomes in legal matters.

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Helping Venezuelan refugees live better lives

Helping Venezuelan refugees live better lives

Like millions of her fellow Venezuelans, Lala Lovera knows what it is like to build a new life in another country. When she discovered that too many refugees in her new home of Colombia lacked access to adequate food, shelter and education, she launched Fundación Comparte Por Una Vida Colombia (CPUV Colombia).

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Changing the lives of blind children, one football at a time

Changing the lives of blind children, one football at a time

Like many millions around the world, Greece’s Elias Mastoras loves football.  Unlike anyone else, he found a way to share his passion with blind children not only allowing them to play and enjoy the “beautiful game,” but also to participate more fully in social life. 

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Speaking truth to power in Russia

Speaking truth to power in Russia

Yevgenia Albats is a Russian investigative journalist, radio host, political scientist, and author. More importantly, she’s a long-time, outspoken critic of the Russian government and its domination by the security services.

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Insurgent leadership

Insurgent leadership

While the incumbent establishment fears and resists change, the insurgent embraces change, because change means opportunity. By Scott Miller, CEO, Core Strategy Group, USA March, 2017 To know is to...

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Values added

Values added

Can leadership succeed without “a moral compass”? No, says Tallberg Foundation chairman Alan Stoga, who with nine other jurors deliberated over the criteria that inform the foundation’s annual...

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Join the Webinar: Sustainable Democracy?

Join the Webinar: Sustainable Democracy?

A panel of young leaders from Hungary, Venezuela, Poland and South Sudan, who are on the front lines of fighting for real, sustainable democracy, will discuss what they have learned in their...

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Leadership Special: Jared Genser, international human rights lawyer

Leadership Special: Jared Genser, international human rights lawyer

In this special podcast episode you will meet Jared Genser, one of the three 2020 Tällberg-SNF-Eliasson Global Leadership prize winners. Jared is an international human rights lawyer who has spent his career practicing law, engaging in serious scholarship, and teaching and mentoring the next generation of human rights lawyers. Listen, as he is interviewed by Shahidul Alam, photographer, writer, curator and activist and a member of the 2020 prize jury.

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Leadership Special: Sylvia Earle interview

Leadership Special: Sylvia Earle interview

Today’s world is short of a lot of things—sustainable environment, peace, prosperity, equality—but what we lack most is innovative, global, values-based leadership. If we can find and nurture that kind of leadership, the rest will follow. In this podcast episode, you will meet Sylvia Earle, one of the three 2020 Tällberg-SNF-Eliasson Global Leadership prize winners.

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True Blue

True Blue

Sylvia Earle, behaves like a woman running out of time, which she is. The world’s foremost oceanographer, she is on the road most of the year, and has logged countless hours underwater since her first dive, in a Florida river, when she was 16.

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Objections Sustained

Objections Sustained

Sara Hossain, connects the dots between healthcare, freedom of speech, and right to information, and combined strategic litigation with consensus-building.

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Data Minded

Data Minded

Nithya Ramanathan, co-founded Nexleaf in 2009, the company has focused on clean cook-stove technologies, vaccine temperature monitors, and improved NICU care. The cutting-edge data collection is just the first step. What distinguishes her works is the ability to put the right data in front of the right person, and have the right conversation at the right time.

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Believing It’s Possible

Believing It’s Possible

As founder of the Open Source Pharma Foundation, which is creating a crowd-sourced alternative to the pharmaceutical industry, Jaykumar Menon feels he may have met his moment. Just a couple of years...

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The Ripple Effect

The Ripple Effect

Meet Jared Genser, finalist for this years prize, referred to by the New York Times as “The Extractor” for his work freeing political prisoners worldwide, his client list has included people like Nobel Peace Prize Laureates Desmond Tutu, Liu Xiaobo, and Elie Wiesel.

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Our Wildlife, Our Selves

Our Wildlife, Our Selves

Dr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka have made a connection that most of the world is only now beginning to get: The well-being of humans and animals are inextricably linked. Read the story of one of this years finalists.

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Writing on the wall

Writing on the wall

Meet one of the 2020 Eliasson Global Leadership Prize finalists, Bahia Shehab, a historian, street artist and professor of graphic design.

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Is Europe’s future green or black?

Is Europe’s future green or black?

In this episode of the podcast, Danish politician and former President of the UN General Assembly Mogens Lykketoft argues that these inter-related challenges demand urgent action—and that if humanity moves fast, we could find new paths to a new, shared prosperity.

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The American Condition

The American Condition

In this week’s podcast episode, Scott Miller and Josh Steiner explore the potential impact of the pandemic on longer term trends shaping the United States.

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Recordings from Webinars

Recordings from Webinars

Last week the Tällberg Foundation network was invited to join two webinars: “Disruptive Technologies: Good, Bad and Ugly” and “Global Order Amidst Global Disorder”. If you missed the panel discussions, you can watch them here.

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Taking Democracy’s Temperature

Taking Democracy’s Temperature

Too many people in too many countries do not trust their leaders to act in their national interest or, at the extreme, even to hold fair elections. This article is a product of the survey on confidence and democracy we asked our global network to take part in a couple of weeks ago.

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Climate after Covid

Climate after Covid

In this podcast episode, Christiana Figueres discusses the possibility of leveraging the massive political and economic resources that governments around the world are mobilizing to stimulate the global, regional, national, corporate, and individual actions needed to cut emissions in half by the end of the decade.

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The value(s) of democracy

The value(s) of democracy

Podcast: Democracy is under huge pressure everywhere, Bngladeshi photographer Shahidul Alam discusses issues from the perspective of a country which struggles to conduct fair elections, where inequality is extreme and poverty even more so.

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Will Democracy Survive Covid-19?

Will Democracy Survive Covid-19?

In this podcast episode, Gabriela Cuevas and Paula DiPerna, discuss the risk that our democracies could be another casualty of Covid-19—and what we should do about it.

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What is a Thought?

What is a Thought?

In this week’s episode of the Tällberg Foundation Podcast we will explore questions as 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?

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Civilization, Interrupted

Civilization, Interrupted

What happens when Covid-19 is only a bad memory? More to the point, what do we want to happen when we get to the new post-Covid normal?

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Grappling With the Unknown

Grappling With the Unknown

In this week’s episode of the Tällberg Foundation Podcast, we listen to a conversation between Anne Goldfeld, Faustin Linyekula and Saul Griffith who share their perspectives on the future and their relationship with it.

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What is the future of democracy?

What is the future of democracy?

Episode 2 of the podcast: Are the 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?

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Brain Guys

Brain Guys

2018 Winner, Rafa Yuste, hosted a group from the Tällberg Foundation for a tour of his lab, a presentation of key aspects of his research, and a discussion of the profound ethical implications of the current explosion of knowledge about the brain.

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Names of the Dead

Names of the Dead

Poet Sitawa Namwalie performance opened the Tällberg workshop in Nairobi on November 13 when she read three works: Names of the Dead, A woman’s body parts, and We leave our house to go home.

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New Thinking for a New World

New Thinking for a New World

By convening an amazing group of participants from Kenya and around the world, we hope to make new connections, to imagine new pathways, and to inspire new actions

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The Magnificent Seven

The Magnificent Seven

In August, the 2019 Tällberg/Eliasson Global Leadership Prize jury convened to select the finalists for this year’s Prize. We took the opportunity to ask our new jury members for their thoughts on the challenges of leadership in the 21st century.

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Triple Vision

Triple Vision

Finalist Anne Goldfeld is a physician-scientist and humanitarian who works at the intersection of scientific discovery and delivery of care for infectious disease.

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A Different Marathon

A Different Marathon

Finalist Tegla Loroupe, one of the most successful female long distance runners in history, leveraged her athletic success to become a global spokeswoman for peace, women’s rights and education.

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Doing Nobody’s Job

Doing Nobody’s Job

Jaykumar Menon, an international human rights lawyer, scholar, and social entrepreneur —and finalist for this year’s Prize

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Mission Possible

Mission Possible

Finalist Saul Griffith is working on how we fix the damaging industrial ways that we do things today.

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Change in Motion

Change in Motion

Meet our prize finalist Faustin Linyekula, a Congolese dancer, choreographer, director, storyteller and founder of a transformative dance company, Studios Kabako, in Kisangani.

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Underwater Witness

Underwater Witness

Sylvia Earle, one of the finalists for the 2019 Tällberg/Eliasson Global Leadership award, behaves like a woman running out of time, which she is.

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Shaping the Future

Shaping the Future

On April 11, the 2018 winners discussed their leadership accomplishments and challenges with an audience drawn from the Columbia community and friends of the Tällberg Foundation.

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Got Silk?

Got Silk?

When Fio Omenetto offered to host the Tällberg Foundation’s workshop—“Inside Every Utopia Is Dystopia,”— he provided an ideal space for examining the impact of scientific and technological advances.

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Thought Experiments

Thought Experiments

What do magical thinking, salamander tails, free will, the human genome, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights have in common?

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Something to talk about

Something to talk about

In the 35 years since a Swedish businessman named Bo Ekman created the Tällberg Foundation, both the world and his organization have changed dramatically.

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What happens in Mexico City

What happens in Mexico City

It will be part celebration, part forum, and part call to action, as the Tällberg Foundation brings together a select group of participants in Mexico City.

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