The fifth YGL Summit will be an intense, interactive experience taking place over five days in Jordan (from 13rd to 17th May), during which Young Global Leaders will incubate the insights and relationships that will help them lead their organizations and communities through the current global crisis. The YGL community is an unparalleled, globally diverse network of peers from all segments of society. The community has proven experience and specific expertise in collaborating across traditional divides to develop innovative and sustainable solutions to the world?Ts most pressing problems.
The Young Global Leaders Dead Sea Summit will provide an in-depth experience in a country that is facing a number of challenges, from absorbing two million displaced persons from the conflicts of neighbouring states to diversifying and reducing its dependency on foreign grants. Jordan will provide a unique backdrop against which Young Global Leaders can evaluate their own leadership in trying times and be inspired by local solutions that the country is applying to the global risks and challenges that YGLs face in their leadership roles.
The global economic crisis highlights the need to fundamentally rethink and redesign global systems, processes and institutions. It also underscores that the next generation of leaders must stand up and be accountable for the future health of the global system. The Young Global Leaders Dead Sea Summit will help catalyse discussions for this next generation of leaders, who can use the key lessons of the Summit to design and shape a better future.
The World Economic Forum announced last February its list of nominations for 2009, chosen from among 5,000 candidates from 71 countries. Jimena Blázquez Abascal, Director of the NMAC Foundation, will become a member of this community, which is part of the Forum of Global Leaders, chaired by HM The Queen of Jordan, and which comprises some 200 individuals under 40 years of age, who are considered to have the greatest influence in the world.
