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29.01.2025
Youth & Leaders Summit 2025
À propos de cet événement
Du 29 janvier 2025 à 17:30 au 31 janvier 2025 à 20:00
What Future for International Cooperation?
Download the program and the speakers' biographies (PDF).
10th edition
As we enter the second quarter of the 21st century, it is clear that there are significant challenges to international cooperation from multiple global crises, new power dynamics, and increasing political fragmentation. To address these challenges, we need robust multilateral institutions, effective diplomacy, and a commitment to shared values and goals. Yet instead we are witnessing the erosion of traditional alliances, and the emergence of frameworks and behaviours that increasingly prioritise individual nation-states and/or regions. As a consequence, this year’s Youth and Leaders Summit questions “What future for international cooperation?”.
This 10th edition of the Summit will enable current global leaders to engage with PSIA students to critically evaluate and adapt the current foundations for international cooperation to meet the challenges of the next 25 years.
This year a new format will be proposed: the Summit will take place on the afternoons/evenings of Wednesday 29 to Friday 31 January 2025, during the first week of classes.
The Summit will be structured around different formats. Keynote speeches by a particularly distinguished speaker(s). Panel discussions with up to five experts, including one PSIA student. Break-out sessions where a small group of students will discuss with one expert in a more informal setting.
The Summit benefits from an exclusive media partnership with The New York Times.
CMA CGM is the corporate sponsor of the Summit.
Program
17:30 | Welcome & Opening Remarks
- Luis Vassy, President, Sciences Po
- Arancha González, Dean, PSIA
17:45 | Keynote Speech > Watch the replay
- Mathias Cormann, Secretary-General, OECD
Student Presenter: Max Cocard, Master in International Governance and Diplomacy, PSIA
18:30 | Presentation of Pol.is audience participation tool by Student Rapporteurs
18:40 | Break
18:45 | Panel - On the Road to Seville: A Financial System Fit for Sustainable Development
Student Presenter: Andrés Gutiérrez, Master in International Development, PSIA
Moderator: Paola Subacchi, Incoming Chairholder, Chair in Sovereign Debt and Finance, Sciences Po
- Javier Oest Fernández, Student, Master in International Development, PSIA
- Rémy Rioux, Director-General, Agence Française de Développement; Chairman of Finance in Common
- Pascal Saint-Amans, Partner, Brunswick Group
- Vera Songwe, Chairperson, The Liquidity and Sustainability Facility
- Thierry Watrin, Lead, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa’s Sustainable Debt Coalition
Amphiteater Chapsal
17:15 | Ted Talk - Human institutions: Transforming Societal Systems with Compassion
- Disa Jironet Loewe, Public Prosecutor, Netherlands Public Prosecution Service
Student Presenter: Tommaso De Bellis, Master in Human Rights and Humanitarian Action, PSIA
17:30 | 60 minutes with - The Future of the Multilateral Trading System
- Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director-General, World Trade Organization
Moderator: Steven Erlanger, Chief diplomatic correspondent in Europe, The New York Times
Amphiteater Sorel-Leroy Beaulieu
19:00 | The New York Times Debate - Do we still need the UN?
Student presenters: Deniz Gezer, Master in Human Rights and Humanitarian Action, PSIA; Elena Kloppe, Master in International Governance and Diplomacy, PSIA
Moderator: Stephen Dunbar-Johnson, President, International of The New York Times Company
- Antonio de Aguiar Patriota, Ambassador of Brazil to the United Kingdom
- Hugh Dugan, Former Senior Director for International Organization Affairs on the US National Security Council
- Melissa Fleming, Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications, United Nations
- Stefano Sannino, Former Secretary-General, European External Action Service, European Union
15:00 | 60 minutes with - International Cooperation to Protect Human Rights in a More Fractured World
- Agnès Callamard, Secretary General, Amnesty International
Student presenter: Karen Hagen, Master in International Security, PSIA
Moderator: Antoine Bernard, Director, Advocacy & Assistance, Reporters Sans Frontières; PSIA Faculty
16:15 | Panel - Multilateralism and the New World Order
Student Presenter: William Obiora Obiagwu, Master in International Governance and Diplomacy, PSIA
Moderator: Vuk Jeremić, Editor in Chief, Horizons; former President of the United Nations General Assembly
- HRH Prince Turki bin Faisal Al Saud, Chairman of the Board, King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies
- Isabella Baker, Student, Master in International Security, PSIA
- John W.H. Denton, Secretary-General, International Chamber of Commerce
- María Fernanda Espinosa, Executive Director, Global Women Leaders Voices; former President of the United Nations General Assembly
- Zhang Weiwei, Director of China Institute, Fudan University
17:45 | Break
18:00 | Next generation expectations: the future of international cooperation
- Cristina Gallach, Secretary of the Board of GWL Voices; former UN Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information
- In conversation with student rapporteurs presenting the results of pol.is
19:00 | Concluding Remarks by Arancha González, Dean, PSIA
Registration
Registration for the summit
The Summit is open to PSIA students as well as to the whole Sciences Po community. Anyone can register to attend the major sessions during the day. Please note the Summit will take place in-person on Sciences Po's Paris campus.
External guests registration for the summit
The summit is open for the external guests as well. However, please note that registration for external guests is subject to availability.
Registration for breakout sessions
Breakout sessions take place in-person, and are allocated troughout the whole 3 days of the Summit.
Breakout sessions are available exclusively to PSIA students, to give you the chance to exchange informally with one of the speaekrs in a small group setting.
Because the number of seats is limited, a random draw is conducted to select student participants. Some effort will be made to promote diversity within each session according to Master, gender, and nationality.
The breakout sessions will be held under Chatham House rules be and be chaired by a PSIA Student.
Student Involvement
Student participation is at the very heart of the Summit, from the organization to the implementation of the event. 40 PSIA students took part in various roles: student speakers, presenters, speaker liaison and chair of breakout session, journalists, community managers, and rapporteurs.
Pol.is allows people to share opinions and ideas, and its algorithm is designed to elevate ideas that can facilitate better decision-making. Throughout the 10th edition of the Youth and Leaders Summit, Pol.is will be used to collect the views and ideas of the audience in an anonymised way with the aim of enhancing their active engagement and participation.
Student rapporteurs will monitor the inputs and facilitate an intergenerational conversation about the results of the onlince conversation during the closing session. You can already start the conversation ahead of the Summit and share ideas on the overaching question "What future for international cooperation?"
Call for volunteers
We're delighted to invite PSIA students to volunteer to participate in the Summit. All PSIA students are welcome to apply: first year, gap year, second year, and exchange students. Degree-seeking students will be given priority.
Please note that the call for volunteers is now closed.
Volunteer Roles
- Speaker
- Panel Presenter
- Chair of Break-Out Session (and Panelist Liaison)
- Journalist
- Community Manager
- Artists
- Rapporteur Pol.is
