Our Keynote Conversation, with panelists David Miliband, President and CEO, International Rescue Committee (IRC); Kevin Rudd, President and CEO, Asia Society; former Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Australia; and Gillian Tett, Chair, Editorial Board and Editor-at-Large, US, Financial Times.



On Thursday, September 23, our second annual global interdependence summit, “Rise or Fall Together: Harnessing Our Mutual Responsibilities to Solve Global Challenges,” brought together some of the world’s most inspiring people, including former Prime Minister of Australia The Honorable Kevin Rudd AC, WHO Chief Scientist Soumya Swaminathan; global business leader Ajay Banga, civil society leader Naina Lal Kidwai, world-renowned singer Renee Fleming, African Leadership Institute CEO Jackie Chimhanzi, and climate change experts Manish Bapna and Andrew Steer, to name just a few. They explored 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. The summit developed new strategies for building an empowered global constituency representing our common humanity and for transforming a recognition of the mutual responsibilities of our interdependence to help solve our greatest common challenges.