Make sure to save the date for our 23rd Annual Meeting. Join your friends in Washington, D.C. from October 26-29 for another extraordinary meeting - just days before the US Presidential election. Hear from experts on the future of science, philanthropy, business, what's to come on the political horizon and much more. Registration opens soon. Stay tuned! 

From the acclaimed pioneer in genomics to a world renowned expert negotiator and a rising social entrepreneur, here are some of the latest speakers to join this year's G50 program. 

The Carlyle Group's David Rubenstein recently spoke at the Washington Post Transformers event to discuss why he engages in patriotic philanthropy.  “My theory is that if younger people and older people know more about our traditions, our history — the good and the bad — they can be more informed citizens and we can have a better democracy. That’s a theory. Maybe it’s right, maybe it’s wrong." Read More...

Mariana Costa, founder of Laboratoria, sat down with President Obama & Mark Zuckerberg to discuss her entrepreneurial journey and the challenges in between. The conversation was part of the 7th annual Global Entrepreneurship Summit that took place at Stanford University from June 22-24.   (Click here to watch full panel)

J. Craig Venter — a motorcycle-racing, world-sailing adrenaline-junkie — was the first person to sequence the human genome - and his subsequent discoveries are changing the future of science. “How we understand our own selves, and how we work with our DNA software has implications that will affect everything from vaccine development, to new approaches to antibiotics, new sources of food, new sources of chemicals, even potentially new sources of energy,” he says. “Food will be manufactured — it won’t be grown in fields — in 50 years.” Read More...

Daniel Shapiro, director of Harvard's International Negotiation Program, conducts workshops for diplomats and business leaders all over the world. In his decades of teaching people how to negotiate better, he has observed that we all experience the repetition compulsion cycle, repeating time and again the same damaging patterns of interaction with friends, loved ones and colleagues. How can we end negative patterns in our own lives - and resolve every conflict that comes our way? Read More...

The "architect" of President Obama's two presidential victories, David Plouffe, is acclaimed for his adept use of technology, his pioneering new applications, his message development and discipline, his management skills and his focus on competitiveness. Now he's taken his craft to Uber - one of the most valuable startups in Silicon Valley - as it continues its ascendance on the world stage.  (Watch Video)

David Rubenstein is an American-history buff who practices what he calls “patriotic philanthropy,” on behalf of the national heritage. After a magnitude-5.8 earthquake shook the Washington Monument for twenty seconds in 2011, Rubenstein stepped up to cover half of the funds for repair, saying “The government doesn’t have the resources it used to have. We have gigantic budget deficits and large debt. And I think private citizens now need to pitch in.”Read More...

Coding is basic literacy for the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Code powers the digital world, which makes coders the architects and builders of the digital age. So, what better way for Latin America and the Caribbean to be part of this revolution than by giving its children the tools that they need to be digital citizens? This is where Peru's Laboratoria comes into play.. Read More...

"Working now across the continents with leadership from government, from business, and people really at all levels of organizations, what I found is a tendency for people in negotiation to focus on the facts and the figures -- the numbers -- when in fact so much of what drives our negotiations is more than just that rational component but that component that’s beyond reason; the emotional component."...  Watch the video 

Economists want to know why prime-age workers, people 25-54, aren't working. NPR host Mary Louise Kelly talks to David Wessel of the Hutchins Center on Fiscal & Monetary Policy at the Brookings Institution. (Listen to Podcast)

Chris Stone of the Open Society Foundation says the Brexit vote is a result of many things: the complicated and distant bureaucracy of Brussels, the EU’s inept management of the refugee crisis (and the euro crisis before it), and the failure of cosmopolitan elites to place the public interest over their own self-interest. But, he says, it is really the politics of fear that hinders reform and has become one of the greatest threats to an open society.  Read More...

The future of Brazil hangs in the balance as economic relief continues to be forsaken by political controversy. Can Brazilian leaders restore their credibility or will the Brazilian economy plunge deeper into recession? Augusto de la Torre of the World Bank shares his insight on the turbulent road ahead. Read More...

The lives and futures of millions of children are in jeopardy. We have a choice: Invest in the most excluded children now or risk a more divided and unfair world. Read Tony Lake's Foreword in this year's State of the World's Children Report. 

To United Arab Emirates Ambassador Yousef Al Otaiba, the Middle East is a place of both peril and promise. Although, from his vantage point, Iran and Islamic extremists pose a threat to the entire region, the next generation of young people is spreading a culture of optimism, opportunity, and openness, the ambassador said. Read More...

Jim Messina, President Barack Obama's 2012 campaign manager draws parallels between 2008 and 2016 primaries by stating that "the question isn't what's going to happen now, but what's going to happen the day after the primary". He believes that there is no chance that "someone who is going to vote for...Bernie Sanders in the primary is then going to go to Donald Trump in the general election". Read More...