As the 21st century unfolds, the world is confronted with a mounting array of challenges -- persistent poverty, environmental degradation, homelessness, clashes of cultures, insecurity, and more. Yet, thanks to advances in communications and technology, the coming decades hold great promise to bring vast numbers of people into the global mainstream of commerce and trade in addition to giving them access to important advances in science, medicine and education.
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Learn more about the Aspen Global Leadership Network in the 2008 publication "Leading Change."
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The Aspen Global Leadership Network (AGLN) is a worldwide community of entrepreneurial business, government and civil society leaders committed to values-based leadership. Through its programs, the AGLN is spurring these leaders --"Fellows" -- to move “from success to significance” and “from thought to action” by tackling the foremost societal challenges of our times. Collectively, the 850 Fellows from 37 countries that currently comprise the AGLN have the potential to make a measurable impact on some of the world's most intractable issues.
All AGLN Fellows are between the ages of 25 and 50. All have proven themselves through success in their respective fields. All have spent weeks in dialogue with others in their cohort on leadership, values and "the good society," and have committed to putting their ideas into action through a leadership project in their communities and countries. And all have participated in one of the following initiatives:
Video -- Leadership in an Era of Globalization: Central America and South Africa
Fellows from the Central America Leadership Initiative and the South Africa Leadership Initiative gathered in
Aspen for the “Leading in an Era of Globalization” Seminar September 24-28, 2008. During the event, The Aspen Institute hosted a timely public forum titled Leadership in an Era of Globalization: Central America and South Africa, moderated by Peter Reiling, Executive Vice President of Leadership and Seminar Programs at The Aspen Institute, and featuring panelists Andres Botran, Secretary of World Food Security Program, Alberto Solano, Latin American Programs Director at Global Partnerships, Raisibe Morathi, Executive Director of Group Services at Sanlam Limited, and Derek Thomas, Executive Director of Letsema Holdings.
John P. McNulty Prize
The John P. McNulty Prize celebrates the spirit and memory of John P. McNulty by supporting extraordinary young leaders from the Aspen Global Leadership Network who are making creative, effective and lasting contributions to their communities. The $100,000 prize was awarded for the first time in November 2008 to Henry Crown Fellow Jordan Kassalow for his work with VisionSpring. Kasslaw created a "Business in a Bag" model, allowing rural entrepreneurs to sell affordable reading glasses to the poor; simultaneously addressing a social need and creating jobs in poor communities. For more information, see the press release. Please visit www.mcnultyprize.org for information on the McNulty Prize and the application guidelines. See this short video: Quicktime, Windows Media Player for highlights of two exemplary projects.
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