Maryam Forum: Building Transformational Leadership for an Uncertain Future

The problem we’re trying to solve

The world faces multiple, urgent and complex challenges on an unprecedented scale. From climate change and oceans to global growth, financial architecture, human mobility and disinformation, courageous leadership is needed to navigate our future. Yet, many parts of the world are characterised by conflicting national interests, a lack of accountability and corruption. The COVID-19 pandemic has shaken the world, reminded us of the crucial role of leadership, and made clear the gap in transparent, inclusive and accountable leadership.

Transformative leadership must be grounded in evidence and exercised by leaders from and representing the full breadth of our global communities. For it to emerge, we need stronger links between research and policy, alongside an ecosystem that encourages meritocracy, accountability and inclusion.

From rulership to leadership

Xổ số miền bắc thứ 6 hàng tuầnMaryam Forum is a multi-year programme aimed at accelerating the kind of leadership the world needs urgently. A product of the LSE Institute of Global Affairs (IGA) and the School of Public Policy (SPP), it has been conceived as a collaboration between policy makers, students, academic researchers, business leaders and media. Driven by deep engagement with faculty and students, the Maryam Forum builds on LSE and IGA’s strong track record in research, policy engagement and capacity building. To create this ecosystem, it will chart a new and ambitious trajectory through action-oriented public policy research, a fellowship programme, an online platform for knowledge sharing, executive leadership courses, private working group events and an annual global event. It will facilitate peer-to-peer learning among its partners and comparative analysis across emerging and advanced economies. Year round working groups will help bring research from LSE and its partner universities into focus, creating opportunities for the Forum’s broader network of business leaders to engage deeply and for researchers to tap into their expertise.

Maryam Forum also presents an unrivalled opportunity for students to meet and work alongside global leaders and influential professionals, developing valuable connections for the future. To help build the leaders of tomorrow, students from LSE’s School of Public Policy are central to supporting every part of the Forum’s activities. The experience will inspire, motivate, and support development of real world understanding in their fields of interest. At the same time, it will promote the importance of engaging with the full breadth of global communities in the development of policy.

Xổ số miền bắc thứ 6 hàng tuầnThe COVID-19 pandemic has challenged humanity like no other shock in recent memory. Every country and every individual in our deeply interconnected world have felt the impacts, with its twin health and economic crises creating widespread social disruption and unprecedented uncertainty. Even before COVID-19, it was clear many of the challenges we face today demand system change that cannot be achieved by self-interested rulers. It is urgent that we overcome this leadership gap.

Xổ số miền bắc thứ 6 hàng tuầnIntroduced on the global stage in Davos during the World Economic Forum (WEF) in January 2020, Maryam Forum is a collaboration between policy makers, academics, business leaders students and the media that engages the LSE across departments and disciplines. 

The virtual “London Launch” of the Maryam Forum took place on Thursday 2nd July 2020, between 13:00 - 20:00 BST, titled From Rulership to Leadership: What Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic?

Watch recordings from each session of the Maryam Forum launch here.

Since March 2020, IGA and SPP have been examining the pandemic and its policy implications via a dedicated webinar series. These events draw key lessons for leadership on global challenges, from multiple disciplinary perspectives and across emerging and advanced economies. 

From climate change, health crises and other global emergencies, to industrial policy, populism and migration, our year-round working groups have tackled the most urgent challenges of our time - providing opportunities to exchange expertise and shape solutions, and unlocking the potential for inclusive and sustainable leadership across all regions of the world.

See IGA events in 2020 here.

We are preparing for the first Maryam Annual Forum that will take place on 8th, 9th and 10th December 2020. Our Co-Labs will present their key findings and policy recommendations, which we collectively will distil into an open letter – our “Call to Action” – addressed to world leaders. This will not be your usual conference – we all will roll up our sleeves to work, challenge ourselves, and come up with the best possible research-informed policy recommendations. 

Key to delivering on the Maryam Forum’s ambition is a series of ‘Maryam Co-Labs’ Xổ số miền bắc thứ 6 hàng tuầnthat were launched in September. These year-round working groups will develop and seek to implement innovative research-based policy solutions to support the transition from rulership to leadership on six global challenges critical to achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. To foster a better leadership ecosystem, the Co-Labs will each comprise a coalition of representatives of the Forum’s different partner groups and will operate in a meritocratic, inclusive, and accountable fashion.  

The six Co-Labs

1. Global emergencies and responses

2. Rethinking global finance and the global financial infrastructure

3. Innovation and inclusive growth

4. Climate and the oceans

5. Populism and sustainable governance

6. Human mobility

See more information on the Co-Labs