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29.01.2025
Youth & Leaders Summit 2025
About this event
From 29 January 2025 17:30 to 31 January 2025 20:00
What Future for International Cooperation?
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.
Program
17:30 | Opening Remarks
- Arancha González, Dean, PSIA
17:45 | Keynote Speech
- Mathias Cormann, Secretary-General, OECD
Student Presenter: Max Cocard, Master in International Governance and Diplomacy, PSIA
18:30 | Presentation of Pol.is 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, Student, Master in International Development, PSIA
- Rémy Rioux, Director-General, Agence Française de Développement
- Pascal Saint-Amans, Partner, Brunswick; ex-Director, OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration
- Thierry Watrin, Lead, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa’s Sustainable Debt Coalition
- Javier Oest Fernández, Student, Master in International Development, PSIA
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 Multilateralism in Trade
- Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director-General, World Trade Organization
Amphiteater Sorel-Leroy Beaulieu
19: 00 | 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
- Stefano Sannino, Former Secretary-General, European External Action Service, European Union
- Melissa Fleming, Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications, United Nations
- Hugh Dugan, Former U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs
16:15 | Panel - Multilateralism and the New World Order
Student Presenter: William Obiora, Master in International Governance and Diplomacy, PSIA
Moderator: Vuk Jeremić, Editor in Chief, Horizons; Former President of the United Nations General Assembly
- María Fernanda Espinosa, Former Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ecuador
- John W.H. Denton, Secretary-general of International Chamber of Commerce
- Professor Zhang Weiwei, Director of its China Institute at Fudan University
- Isabella Baker, Student, Master in International Security, PSIA
17:45 | Break
18:00 | In conversation with - Next Generation Expectations for the Future of International Cooperation
- Susanna Malcorra, Former Minister for Foreign Affairs of Argentina
- Student Rapporteurs
19:15 | Concluding Remarks by Arancha González, Dean, PSIA
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
