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New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastInheriting TraumaRana Dajani on the emerging science of trauma passed across generations.
The number of active conflicts today is the highest since the end of World War II. The world has clearly entered a new, more violent, and fragmented era.
We can and should debate "why?" But we also need to focus on "so what?" What are the consequences, not only for warriors but also for the innocents caught up in spreading conflict? Is it possible that the impacts of traumatic violence could be transmitted across generations?
A group of scientists believes their work proves that...
2025-12-1132 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastWhat Has the Whale to Say?David Gruber on decoding sperm whale communication and reimagining our relationship with nature.
| "The whale has no voice," Herman Melville wrote in Moby Dick. "But then again," he went on, "What has the whale to say?"
Turns out he was wrong: not only do sperm whales have voices, but these massive, amazing mammals talk constantly to each other. They are humongous creatures: males can be 18 meters long and weigh 45 tons. Think something the weight of an industrial dump truck, but twice as long. Despite their massive size and the capacity to dive more than a mile into...
2025-12-0436 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastGreek Classics—Modern LifeBryan Doerries on using ancient stories to foster empathy and human connection today.
The Greek classics are timeless because they provide insights into our souls, into how we think and why we do what we do. Of course, few of us regularly read or ponder the wisdom of those epic tragedies. But what if they could be made accessible in ways that shed light on the specific challenges of life in the 21st century?
The results could be amazing, healing, entertaining, and educational---partly by stripping away what we think is so special about our time, focusing instead on...
2025-11-2744 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastReimagining Environmental JournalismRhett Ayers Butler on transforming environmental journalism into a force for global good.
By almost every objective indicator, the process of dramatic climate change grinds on. However, the optimists are currently making a big deal out of the notion that warming might top out between 2.5 and 3°C over pre-industrial levels, compared to earlier and much higher scenarios. And Bill Gates now assures us that it is poverty, not climate change, that is potentially catastrophic.
No one should be reassured!
When it comes to the environment, what people around the world need is reliable, fact-based information a...
2025-11-2034 min
Folkets HistoriaMidsommarnatt i TällbergMellan Leksand och Rättvik, i sluttningen mot Siljan ligger Tällberg. Den traditionella bondbyn som under 1900-talet förvandlades till ett hippt influencer-mecka, omgivet av tystnad och stjärnbeströdda himlar.----Gäst: Lotta Carlegård, Discover DalarnaProgramledare: Anders LundinManus: Magdalena In de BetouSkådespelare: Isabelle Kyed, Amanda Gordon, Kaj Ahlgren, Maria Möller, Vilgot Paulsen, Sara in de Betou, Ivan Mathias PeterssonLjuddesign: Lars in de BetouProducent: Marie Herdensjö och Rasmus LewenhauptStudio: HajpDet här avsnit...
2025-05-1446 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastBest New Thinking: Doctor, Doctor Give Me the NewsDr. Kris Olson discusses how innovative, human-centered design is transforming global healthcare.
Healthcare is intensely personal. Even when national statistics show improvement—which has been the case for most countries over recent decades—what matters is whether my baby in rural Uganda is having trouble breathing or whether my aging father in New York who went into the hospital with a broken hip will now die from the MERS he contracted there or whether why my wife in Buenos Aries can access the drugs she needs to survive cancer.
In our hi-tech age, it seems like much of wh...
2025-04-1034 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastHelping Refugees Help Themselves: The Play Really is the Thing!Filmmakers Charlotte Eagar and William Stirling explore how theater heals and transforms.
Shakespeare wrote in Hamlet, “The play’s the thing, wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king,” when the troubled Prince stages a play to catch a murderer. The underlying point of the play-in-the-play is that drama is an incredibly powerful force for storytelling and much else.
Fast forward to the 21st century for an amazing example of that Shakespearean wisdom. Two incredibly creative British filmmakers created something called The Trojan Women Project to use drama to help refugees from wars in the Middle East and...
2025-04-0340 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastBest New Thinking: Tyranny’s Most Dangerous Foe2024 Prize winner María Teresa Ronderos advocates for honest, smart journalism to fight misinformation and uphold democracy in the digital age.
Winston Churchill is alleged to have written that "A free press is the unsleeping guardian of every other right that free men prize; it is the most dangerous foe of tyranny.” Thus, it should be no surprise that at a time when clear majorities of people in most democracies don’t trust their governments or their politicians, they also don’t trust their media or the journalists that produce it. Literally, you can’t have one without the other—and...
2025-03-0640 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastWhat’s Going On in the United States???Aziz Huq and Scott Miller discuss the unprecedented pace and impact of Trump’s first five weeks in office
Donald Trump has been president for five weeks now. In light of the blizzard of executive orders, funding and hiring cuts, endless nominations and appointments, and above all the nonstop controversial policy declarations on every imaginable topic (and some of which literally are unimaginable), it seems like months or even years.
It's already clear that President Trump intends to change, not only how Washington and the United States work, but how the whole world works.
No pr...
2025-02-2757 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastBest New Thinking: Can the Amazon Be Saved?Fernando Trujillo discusses his work to protect the Amazon’s freshwater basin during unprecedented drought and dangerously low river levels.
What happens in the Amazon is of planetary consequence. Its rainforests influence weather and rainfall around the world. Its rivers account for 1/4 of the available fresh water on earth. Its drainage basin is more than twice as large as that of the Congo River in Africa, which is the world's second-biggest. It harbors an estimated 10% of the planet's known lifeforms.
Our guest this week on New Thinking for a New World is Fernando Trujillo, Colombian marine biologist, 2024 Tä...
2025-02-1332 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastLeaders LeadingListen as the 2024 prize winners discuss their leadership journeys, lessons from failure, and future challenges.
When leaders fail, democracy fails—and too many leaders in too many places are failing. That’s exactly why the Tällberg Foundation has sought out and honored great global leaders over the past decade. Leaders who are innovative, courageous, dynamic, with global worldviews, and whose leadership is rooted in universal values.
The three winners of the 2024 Tällberg-SNF-Eliasson Global Leadership Prize recently came together at a seminar on leadership at the Collegio Cairoli, University of Pavia in Italy. Kristian Olson (medical innova...
2025-01-3041 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastBest New Thinking: Arctic HeatThe Arctic is warming nearly four times faster than the planet, and Tero Mustonen shares his firsthand insights.
That the Arctic is warming is not exactly breaking news on a planet where almost everywhere is warming. But it is critical news that the Arctic is warming almost four times faster than the rest of the globe since the polar regions are essentially the planet’s air conditioners. Last year's Arctic Report Card documented that 2023 was the Arctic's hottest summer in centuries, with all the attendant consequences: massive wildfires, late June Greenland ice sheet melt, sea surface temperatures 7ºC above nor...
2024-12-2635 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastCan the Amazon Be Saved?Fernando Trujillo discusses his work to protect the Amazon’s freshwater basin during unprecedented drought and dangerously low river levels.
What happens in the Amazon is of planetary consequence. Its rainforests influence weather and rainfall around the world. Its rivers account for 1/4 of the available fresh water on earth. Its drainage basin is more than twice as large as that of the Congo River in Africa, which is the world's second-biggest. It harbors an estimated 10% of the planet's known lifeforms.
Our guest this week on New Thinking for a New World is Fernando Trujillo, Colombian marine biologist, 2024 Tä...
2024-12-1132 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastTyranny’s Most Dangerous FoeMaría Teresa Ronderos champions honest, smart journalism as essential to combating misinformation and strengthening democracy in the digital age.
Winston Churchill is alleged to have written that "A free press is the unsleeping guardian of every other right that free men prize; it is the most dangerous foe of tyranny.” Thus, it should be no surprise that at a time when clear majorities of people in most democracies don’t trust their governments or their politicians, they also don’t trust their media or the journalists that produce it. Literally, you can’t have one without the other—and today m...
2024-12-0540 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastDoctor, Doctor Give Me the NewsJoin Dr. Kristian Olson as he discusses how innovative, human-centered design is transforming global healthcare.
Healthcare is intensely personal. Even when national statistics show improvement—which has been the case for most countries over recent decades—what matters is whether my baby in rural Uganda is having trouble breathing or whether my aging father in New York who went into the hospital with a broken hip will now die from the MERS he contracted there or whether why my wife in Buenos Aries can access the drugs she needs to survive cancer.
In our hi-tech age, it seems...
2024-11-2734 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastArctic HeatThe Arctic is warming nearly four times faster than the rest of the planet. Tero Mustonen, recently back from the Arctic, offers a firsthand debrief.
That the Arctic is warming is not exactly breaking news on a planet where almost everywhere is warming. But it is critical news that the Arctic is warming almost four times faster than the rest of the globe since the polar regions are essentially the planet’s air conditioners. Last year's Arctic Report Card documented that 2023 was the Arctic's hottest summer in centuries, with all the attendant consequences: massive wildfires, late June Greenland ice sh...
2024-06-2735 min
Cultivated By CarynCultivated By Caryn w.guest award-winning Finnish chef Sami TallbergOn this week’s episode, host Caryn Antonini is joined by Sami Tallberg, award-winning Finnish chef, author and foraging pioneer who specializes in ultra seasonal, local Nordic wild foods. Chef Sami studied at Helsinki Culinary school and then began his career at The Ivy in London where he found his beginnings in cooking with wild foods. From there, Sami cultivated his understanding and expertise of natural foods and returned to Finland where he has a thriving career, currently offering foraging and cooking courses as well as catering services. Chef Sami is an ambassador for Finnish wild food, and his mi...
2024-06-0733 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastSPOTLIGHT: “tis the mind that makes the body rich”Rafa Yuste and Jared Genser advocate for safeguarding our "neuro rights", and are achieving success in various states and countries.
What do Shakespeare, neuroscientist Rafa Yuste, and human rights lawyer Jared Genser have in common? They all believe that our brains make us human. Yuste and Genser add their own coda to that belief: therefore, it is essential to define and protect mankind’s neuro rights. And through the NeuroRights Foundation which they co-founded they are working to do exactly that around the world.
The good news is that they are starting to have successes: in Colorado, Ca...
2024-04-2313 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastWorth Repeating: A Visionary LeaderAndrew Bastawrous, the 2023 Prize winner, discusses the transformative power of innovative thinking in eye care.
Andrew Bastawrous solves problems. As a well-trained, highly skilled ophthalmologist he was devoted to treating as many patients as possible, in Kenya and elsewhere in Africa. But even gifted surgeons can only do so much, and Andrew came to realize that there were innumerable patients who never even made it to the queues outside his treatment centers.
So, Andrew stepped back and rethought how to do ophthalmology in practice. He found an answer by reimagining how eye care is delivered—literally a wh...
2024-04-1824 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastDefeating the Taliban, One Educated Girl at a TimePashtana Durrani, an Afghan woman dedicated to advancing her country by empowering women and educating girls, one at a time
Terrorists and Afghanistan were back in the headlines because of the recent murderous ISIS-K attack on a concert in Moscow. No one should be surprised, since terrorism seems to be one of that benighted country’s few reliable exports. But, shouldn’t we all be worried that once again the Taliban seem to be hosting terrorists who can strike far outside their borders? And shouldn’t someone be trying to do something about the underlying problems of a failed state...
2024-04-0428 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastWorth Repeating: Can Violent Extremists Leave Their Pasts Behind?Guest host Michael Niconchuk explores the global rise of violent extremism with experts Juncal Fernandez-Garayzabal and Noah Tucker.
Violent extremism is growing globally. It doesn't know religion or creed. Where once it was confined to specific ideology or identity groups, at least in public discourse and discussion, now it appears across societies, across cultures and across borders. Violent extremist ideologies and actions are becoming part of the global fabric.
Why do people get involved in this type of violence? How can they disengage? Can violent extremists be helped to reenter society integrated in healthy, socially positive, empowered...
2024-03-0739 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastA Visionary LeaderAndrew Bastawrous, recipient of the 2023 Tällberg-SNF-Eliasson Global Leadership Prize, discusses the transformative power of innovative thinking in eye care.
Andrew Bastawrous solves problems. As a well-trained, highly skilled ophthalmologist he was devoted to treating as many patients as possible, in Kenya and elsewhere in Africa. But even gifted surgeons can only do so much, and Andrew came to realize that there were innumerable patients who never even made it to the queues outside his treatment centers.
So, Andrew stepped back and rethought how to do ophthalmology in practice. He found an answer by reimagining how eye c...
2024-02-2224 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastClimb a Tree!Meg Lowman talks about her passion for the health of the global forests that are essential components of the natural systems that keep us all alive.
Winners of the Tällberg-SNF-Eliasson Global Leadership Prize typically have several things in common. They look at the big challenges confronting society as opportunities for innovation. They don’t celebrate process: instead, they measure success or failure by outcomes. And they don’t reject conventional wisdom; they ignore it.
Above all, they share the need to try to make the world what it could and should be, rather than what it is...
2024-02-1524 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastSPOTLIGHT: Global LeadershipA thought piece where Alan Stoga, Chairman of the Tällberg Foundation, shares how the foundation supports global leadership
We live at a unique moment in human history. We—and, by “we” I mean practically all of civilization—have experienced roughly 70 years of widely shared prosperity, human development and even peace. Almost everyone alive today is better off than almost everyone who was alive in 1950, at the end of what essentially had been one devastating war that had started after the turn of the century.
Now, however, our prospects are less Great Expectations than maybe Bleak House to steal...
2024-02-0806 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastCan Violent Extremists Leave Their Pasts Behind?Guest host Michael Niconchuk explores the global rise of violent extremism with experts Juncal Fernandez-Garayzabal and Noah Tucker.
Violent extremism is growing globally. It doesn't know religion or creed. Where once it was confined to specific ideology or identity groups, at least in public discourse and discussion, now it appears across societies, across cultures and across borders. Violent extremist ideologies and actions are becoming part of the global fabric.
Why do people get involved in this type of violence? How can they disengage? Can violent extremists be helped to reenter society integrated in healthy, socially positive, empowered...
2023-10-2639 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastSPOTLIGHT: War is Not Healthy for Children and Other Living ThingsIn this SPOTLIGHT piece by Alan Stoga, he offers a glimmer of hope in the war between Israel and Hamas.
The war between Israel and Hamas is a classic “lose/lose” proposition: there can be no winners, with a range of outcomes that stretch from bad towards disastrous. Is this just one more awful conflict in a region whose history is pockmarked by war, violence and hate? Or is there a chance that this bloodletting—as brutal and awful as it has already been—could eventually create a different dynamic?
That’s the glimmer of hope in this Tällb...
2023-10-2410 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastWhat’s the Point of Freedom if You Don’t Do Something With It?Shahidul Alam’s words and pictures force one—sometimes gently, sometimes less so—to confront reality
Shahidul Alam is many things: world-class photographer, Bangladeshi human rights activist, teacher, and author. He is also a provocateur, whose words and pictures force one—sometimes gently, sometimes less so—to confront reality.
Alam is also part of the Tällberg Foundation's Global Leadership Network. In that capacity, he recently delivered a short provocation reflecting on the realities of democracy and the challenges of freedom.
This is not the usual New Thinking for a New World conversation, but we think you'l...
2023-08-1012 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastOur Blue PlanetAsha de Vos has done pioneering work on blue whales and joined this week for a conversation about her work in Sri Lanka.
The planet “Earth” should probably be called “Water” since 70% of it is ocean. Of course, that also means any discussion of climate issues should start with the oceans. Increasing temperatures, rising sea levels, declining biodiversity, growing acidification and other changes driven by climate change have profound impact on the overall degradation of the planet and on mankind’s future.
Marine biologist Asha de Vos knows as much as anyone about our blue planet. She has done p...
2023-07-0614 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastAmerica Votes; Democracy Wins (Maybe)Richard Gephardt and Scott Miller sift through the evidence and speculate on the future of democracy in America.
The US mid-term elections are (almost) over. We know the headlines: Democratic Senate, Republican House, many election deniers denied election. Democrats win by not losing; Republicans prove that when bad candidates deserve to lose, they do. Perhaps most importantly—after all the sturm und drang of the last election cycle—voters voted, ballots were counted, winners celebrated and losers conceded. In other words, America had a normal election.
But is it too early to say that democracy has healed itse...
2022-11-2448 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastWorth Repeating: Live and Let LiveDr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka, a winner of the 2022 Tällberg-SNF-Eliasson Global Leadership Prizes, believes that zoonotic disease is controllable by simultaneously working to improve the health of humans and animals, at the points where they meet.
2020 will be remembered as the Pandemic Year, when a deadly pathogen somehow moved from bat to human—and the rest is history still being written. Six out of 10 infectious diseases are zoonotic: everything from COVID and the other coronaviruses to rabies, West Nile, even the plague. In a Croesus-like effort to break the cycle, Denmark recently killed 17 million farmed mink to try to prevent fur...
2022-11-1725 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastWhat Does a Franco-German Split Mean for Europe?Laure Mandeville and Friedbert Pflüger discuss how Europe can recover if the French and Germans can't figure out how to work together?
Europe is in a bad place: the war in Ukraine, energy crisis, inflation, looming recession, political and social tensions—the list seems endless. Perhaps most importantly, key elements of Europe's grand strategy are in trouble. Dependence on cheap Russian energy has ended catastrophically. Reliance on soft power, while effectively disarming, has proven to be a bad idea. Deepening economic and trade ties with China when that country and the United States seem headed towards confrontation is at...
2022-11-1052 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastBubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble: Europe Looks at a Complicated FutureJakob Hallgren and Ana Palacio discuss how Europe might get from where it is to where its citizens need it to be.
Europe is under considerable stress from the Ukraine war, a deep energy crisis, inflation, roiled financial markets, looming recessions, social unrest, and political turmoil—on top of longstanding tensions between northern and southern countries over economics and western and eastern countries over cultural and social issues.
Arguably, Europe in general (and the EU in particular) is a mess.
The question is whether these forces will combine in ways that could produce less Europe or...
2022-11-0352 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastWorth Repeating: Speaking Truth to Power in the Real WorldListen as three of the good “guys” discuss the reality in the trenches of the fight for human rights.
At a time when autocrats are rampaging and our democracies are weakening, the need for citizens to defend their rights has never been greater. But, does speaking truth to power matter in the real world? While we celebrate the bravery and eloquence of those who stand up to injustice and overweening authority, too often the bad guys seem to win. What would it take to change that outcome?
The Tällberg Foundation recently organized a conversation among three of th...
2022-09-0135 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastWorth Repeating: Save the SeasDo you care about the future of the oceans? Oceanographers Sylvia Earle and Asha de Vos talks about water, the oceans, threats, and solutions.
Do you care about the future of the oceans? Are you worried that pollution, acidification and warming of the seas could transform the planet as much as, maybe more than, what’s happening to the rainforests?
Seventy percent of the earth is covered by water. If we want a livable planet, we need livable oceans. Can we save the oceans? If failure is not an option—and it should not be—who needs to do...
2022-07-1443 min
Psykopodiaa-podcast90. Maanpuolustustahto ja psykologinen informaatiovaikuttaminen. Vieraina Teemu Tallberg ja Miina Kaarkoski.Venäjän aloittama sota Ukrainassa on saanut monet pohtimaan maanpuolustustahtoaan. Maanpuolustustahdolla on monia merkityksiä niin kansalaisten kuin yhteiskunnan tasoilla. Siihen voidaan kohdistaa psykologista informaatiovaikuttamista maamme ulkopuolelta.Tämän jakson aiheena on maanpuolustustahto, kansalaisten suhde siihen ja se miten näihin voidaan pyrkiä vaikuttamaan, sisältä ja ulkoa päin. Aiheesta psykologi Nina Lyytisen vieraina keskustelemassa ovat Maanpuolustuskorkeakoulun sotilassosiologian professori, FT, Teemu Tallberg ja tutkija, FT, Miina Kaarkoski.He käsittelevät mm. näitä kysymyksiä: - Mitä maanpuolustustahto tarkoittaa? - Millaisia merkityksiä sillä on nyky-Suomessa ja tässä ajassa? - Mitä voimme...
2022-05-3042 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastSpeaking Truth to Power in the Real WorldListen as three of the good “guys” discuss the reality in the trenches of the fight for human rights.
At a time when autocrats are rampaging and our democracies are weakening, the need for citizens to defend their rights has never been greater. But, does speaking truth to power matter in the real world? While we celebrate the bravery and eloquence of those who stand up to injustice and overweening authority, too often the bad guys seem to win. What would it take to change that outcome?
The Tällberg Foundation recently organized a conversation among three of th...
2022-05-1935 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastUkraine Changes EverythingThis war is far from over and its reverberations will be with us for a long time. Most importantly, the war seems to be the straw that is breaking the camel’s back of the post-Cold War world order, with unpredictable consequences.
Russia’s war on Ukraine changes everything. Thousands have died; Ukrainian cities have been destroyed; the country’s factories and farms are largely rubble. Ukraine’s heroic resistance has denied the Russian’s their expected quick victory—resistance fueled by unprecedented Western sanctions on Russia and almost unlimited military resupply from NATO countries to Ukraine.
But the dama...
2022-05-1638 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastWorth Repeating: Looking For—and Finding—Real LeadersListen to the 2021 Prize winners: Asha de Vos, Sri Lanka and Tero Mustonen, Finland.
The only hope for a world awash in troubles is that leaders with vision, universal values, and determination will seize the moment. Not just in politics, but across sectors and across countries. Unfortunately, nothing like that is yet happening.
But just bemoaning the lack of leaders accomplishes nothing. That’s why we established and have nurtured the Tällberg-SNF-Eliasson Global Leadership Prize.
In 2021 our global jury selected two amazing leaders: Asha de Vos, a Sri Lankan marine biologist who has established a w...
2022-03-3122 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastSpecial Edition: War in EuropeThe Tällberg Foundation recently hosted a conversation about the conflict in Ukraine and its implications. This conversation featured Jan Eliasson, Pierre Lellouche and
Most of us thought the war in the Balkans would be the last conflict in Europe; the last time that armies would invade, civilians die and borders changed by force. We were wrong. A revanchist Russia, led by President Putin, is trying to redraw borders, roll back history, and change Europe’s security reality. This is not a new Cold War, but a very hot one.
It’s impossible to predict how or when this ends...
2022-03-081h 04
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastWhat’s Next for the Climate: A Post Glasgow PerspectiveNo one is better positioned to answer those questions than Tomas Anker Christensen, Denmark's climate ambassador.
Climate change is the ultimate example of a problem that can only meaningfully be addressed at the global level. Dramatic action in a few countries may be interesting, maybe even important depending on the countries, but actually reducing the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere requires many countries moving rapidly in the same direction.
Last November, more than 100 countries sent delegations—many including presidents and prime ministers—to Glasgow for the 26th United Nations High Level Meeting on Climate. It was...
2022-02-1735 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastSaving Democracy, One New Leader at a TimeAlice Barbe, a French political activist, recently shared her ideas, hopes and solutions on how politics ought to work.
In many, perhaps most countries in the West, there is a wide and growing gap between citizens and their political leaders. Governments often fail to deliver on basic aspects of the social contract and voters sometimes respond by endorsing extreme solutions on the right or the left. Populists have not proven any better at delivering what voters want, so anger and frustration increase while democracy suffers. COVID made it worse. On the one hand, most governments in most places gathered...
2022-02-1032 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastWorth Repeating Cyber Defenders: Protecting Human Rights OnlineRonald Deibert is fighting back against digital predators to protect citizens and civil society.
We live in an always on, hyperconnected, digital society. Almost every aspect of our lives now has a virtual element, which means we leave endless trails of data to be hoovered up for good and for evil. Unfortunately, some of the results include cybercrime, illegal spying, harassment, cyber intimidation and identity theft.
It’s bad enough when these activities are aimed at you or me; much worse when they target dissidents, crusading journalists, citizens who are pushing back against government oppression. That’s wher...
2022-01-1337 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastWorth Repeating: Escaping the TalibanListen as Jamila Afghani talks about escaping the Taliban, and what she expects for her country.
The Taliban's surge to power in Afghanistan is one of those events that will have repercussions for years to come. Geopolitical, strategic, military, perhaps religious, but most importantly, humanitarian. We all watched in horror as hundreds of thousands of women, men, and children tried to flee what seems likely to be a re-imposition of the Taliban's brutal pre-modern style of ruling.
Jamila Afghani, our guest this week, succeeded in getting out with her family. Jamila is an educator, a leader, and...
2022-01-0627 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastSearching for New LeadersListen to Pashtana Durrani, an Afghan activist and educator and Christian Ntizimira, who champions palliative care in Rwanda, discuss leadership.
Great leaders may or may not be born that way, but their skills and abilities certainly evolve and mature over time. For years the Tälberg Foundation has nurtured leaders who are relatively early on their journeys through a variety of programs. This year we took another step in our own leadership journey by establishing an Emerging Leader category for the Tällberg-SNF-Eliasson Global Leadership Prize.
The idea is simple: identify and honor leaders who have already ha...
2021-12-2225 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastLooking For—and Finding—Real LeadersListen to two amazing leaders: Asha de Vos, Sri Lanka and Tero Mustonen, Finland.
The only hope for a world awash in troubles is that leaders with vision, universal values, and determination will seize the moment. Not just in politics, but across sectors and across countries. Unfortunately, nothing like that is yet happening.
But just bemoaning the lack of leaders accomplishes nothing. That’s why we established and have nurtured the Tällberg-SNF-Eliasson Global Leadership Prize.
In 2021 our global jury selected two amazing leaders: Asha de Vos, a Sri Lankan marine biologist who has established a w...
2021-12-1622 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastSave the SeasOceanographers Sylvia Earle from the US and Asha de Vos from Sri Lanka talks about water, the oceans, threats, and solutions.
Do you care about the future of the oceans? Are you worried that pollution, acidification and warming of the seas could transform the planet as much as, maybe more than, what’s happening to the rainforests?
Seventy percent of the earth is covered by water. If we want a livable planet, we need livable oceans. Can we save the oceans? If failure is not an option—and it should not be—who needs to do what?
...
2021-12-0243 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastCyber Defenders: Protecting Human Rights OnlineRonald Deibert is fighting back against digital predators to protect citizens and civil society.
We live in an always on, hyperconnected, digital society. Almost every aspect of our lives now has a virtual element, which means we leave endless trails of data to be hoovered up for good and for evil. Unfortunately, some of the results include cybercrime, illegal spying, harassment, cyber intimidation and identity theft.
It’s bad enough when these activities are aimed at you or me; much worse when they target dissidents, crusading journalists, citizens who are pushing back against government oppression. That’s wher...
2021-11-2437 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastWorth Repeating: Can We Unearth Solutions to the Climate Challenge?Listen to Tero Mustonen, one of 2021 Tällberg-SNF-Eliasson Global Leadership Prize winners.
Rapidly accelerating climate change is uniquely modern — but climate change is not. The planet has warmed and cooled in the past, even during mankind’s time. What can we learn from those events that might help us cope with the extremes that are our present and future? Can indigenous people who understand nature differently than most of us teach us how to cope with today’s terrifying challenges?
Our guest on this week’s New Thinking for a New World podcast, Tero Mustonen, is a climate s...
2021-11-1836 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastElectrify Everything!Do we have the technologies in hand to decarbonize economies in ways that are compatible with how people want to live?
Politicians from around the world are in Glasgow for the 26th United Nations Conference on Climate Change. That the disastrous impacts of climate change are increasingly evident is testimony to many things, not least the practical shortcomings of the first 25 UN meetings. Why are we where we are? The science is clear; politics, much less so.
But do we know what to do? Do we have the technologies in hand to decarbonize economies in ways that...
2021-11-0439 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastEscaping the TalibanListen as Jamila Afghani talks about escaping the Taliban, and what she expects for her country.
The Taliban's surge to power in Afghanistan is one of those events that will have repercussions for years to come. Geopolitical, strategic, military, perhaps religious, but most importantly, humanitarian. We all watched in horror as hundreds of thousands of women, men, and children tried to flee what seems likely to be a re-imposition of the Taliban's brutal pre-modern style of ruling.
Jamila Afghani, our guest this week, succeeded in getting out with her family. Jamila is an educator, a leader, and...
2021-09-3027 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastAre Your Thoughts Safe?Neuroscientists know more about how the brain works than ever before; unlocking the brain's potential could transform our world.
In Hamlet, Shakespeare wrote, "Nothing is good or bad, but thinking makes it so." In turn, that implies that to control someone’s thoughts would create the possibility of controlling their actions, for good or for evil. Until recently, such control was the stuff of science fiction. But, that is changing.
Neuroscientists today know more about how the brain works than ever before; unlocking the brain's potential could transform our world. Achieving what from today's perspective would be su...
2021-07-2835 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastLeadership Special: Fio Omenetto and Bright SimonsListen as two prize winners and friends Fio Omenetto and Bright Simons, discuss how great leaders can change everything.
Today’s world is short of a lot of things—sustainable environment, peace, prosperity, equality—but what we lack most is innovative, global, values-based leadership. If we can find and nurture that kind of leadership, the rest will follow.
Listen as two Tällberg-SNF-Eliasson Global Leadership prize winners and friends, scientist, inventor, and entrepreneur Fio Omenetto and social innovator and entrepreneur Bright Simons, discuss how great leaders can change everything.
What can you do? Take Fio and Bri...
2021-05-1719 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastThe hope of our future“Youth is the hope of our future.” When it comes to governance, is that a good thing in a world where there is a growing body of evidence that youth's satisfaction with democracy is declining...
Filippino national hero Jose Rizal allegedly said that “Youth is the hope of our future.” When it comes to governance, is that a good thing in a world where there is a growing body of evidence that youth's satisfaction with democracy is declining in many countries? This decline—in absolute terms, as well as relative to how older generations felt at the same stages in their l...
2021-05-1326 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastLeadership Special: Jan Eliasson, Former Deputy Secretary-General of the United NationsJan Eliasson, one of the most accomplished global diplomats of our era, discuss how great leaders can change everything.
Today's world is short of a lot of things—sustainable environment, peace, prosperity, equality—but what we lack most is innovative, global, values-based leadership. If we can find and nurture that kind of leadership, the rest will follow.
The Tällberg-SNF-Eliasson Global Leadership Prize named in honor of Jan Eliasson, one of the most accomplished global diplomats of our era. In this special episode, Jan and Alan Stoga, chairman of the Tällberg Foundation discuss how great leaders can ch...
2021-05-1213 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastLeadership Special: Nithya Ramanathan,Engineer working to improve human health with sensory intelligenceListen, as she is interviewed by Cecilia Weckstrom, Sr Director, Diversity, Inclusion & People Innovation at Lego in the UK
Today’s world is short of a lot of things—sustainable environment, peace, prosperity, equality—but what we lack most is innovative, global, values-based leadership. If we can find and nurture that kind of leadership, the rest will follow.
In this special episode you will meet Nithya Ramanathan, one of the three 2020 Tällberg-SNF-Eliasson Global Leadership prize winners. Nithya is an engineer and social entrepreneur, saving lives through the innovative application of technology, creating and applying data-driven solutions to glob...
2021-04-2616 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastLeadership Special: Leadership Special: a profile in brief with Jared Genser, international human rights lawyerIn this special episode you will meet Jared Genser, one of the three 2020 Tällberg-SNF-Eliasson Global Leadership prize winners.
Today’s world is short of a lot of things—sustainable environment, peace, prosperity, equality—but what we lack most is innovative, global, values-based leadership. If we can find and nurture that kind of leadership, the rest will follow.
In this special episode you will meet Jared Genser, one of the three 2020 Tällberg-SNF-Eliasson Global Leadership prize winners. Jared is an international human rights lawyer who has spent his career practicing law, engaging in serious scholarship, and teaching and ment...
2021-04-1216 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastLeadership Special: Sylvia Earle, world-class oceanographer and educatorIn this special episode, you will meet Sylvia Earle, one of the three 2020 prize winners. Listen, as she is interviewed by Ashok Mirpuri, Singapore's ambassador to the U.S and a member of the 2020 prize jury
Today's world is short of a lot of things—sustainable environment, peace, prosperity, equality—but what we lack most is innovative, global, values-based leadership. If we can find and nurture that kind of leadership, the rest will follow.
In this special episode of the New thinking for a New World podcast, you will meet Sylvia Earle, one of the three 2020 Tällber...
2021-03-3115 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastLines in the SandHistory is replete with leaders drawing real or metaphorical lines in the sand, challenging opponents to cross only if they dare. David Andelman, an American journalist and author, believes that one way to understand global risks and challenges is to...
History is replete with leaders drawing real or metaphorical lines in the sand, challenging opponents to cross only if they dare. David Andelman, an American journalist and author, believes that one way to understand global risks and challenges is to explore the nexus of red lines that define global politics.
Indeed, Andelman—in this episode of New Th...
2021-01-2128 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastWelcome to the Brave New (digital) WorldWe explore living online with a woman whose job it is to make the experience as productive and pleasant as possible. Jaime Teevan is Microsoft’s Chief Scientist for Experiences and Devices.
Since the onset of the pandemic, much of life, school, office, shopping, entertainment, dating and even exercise has shifted from the real world to the virtual world. For many, it has been a painful, frustrating experience. For others, it has been liberating and highly productive. For all, we will inevitably emerge changed by the experience.
In this episode of New Thinking for a New World we...
2021-01-1434 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastWhy Europe?Pascal Lamy is arguably one of the most prominent, thoughtful and enthusiastic supporters of a global leadership role for Europe. He deeply believes that the world needs Europe’s brand of...
Pascal Lamy, former Director General of the World Trade Organization, is arguably one of the most prominent, thoughtful and enthusiastic supporters of a global leadership role for Europe. He deeply believes that the world needs Europe’s brand of “civilized globalization” which he describes as dramatically different from the American or Chinese version—more humane, more equitable and more sustainable.
But is the Europe that seems more divid...
2021-01-0731 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastFollow the Science2020 will probably be remembered as the year of COVID. Our guest has long worked at the intersection of science, politics, and policy. Dr. Ali Nouri, a molecular biologist, is the President of the Federation of American Scientists.
2020 will probably be remembered as the year of COVID. But perhaps more importantly, to our collective futures, it's the year that saw the emergence of the scientist as an accepted, necessary player in public policymaking. Probably not since Sputnik and the space race have scientists and science been so visible in the halls of power.
Our guest in this week's...
2020-12-2331 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastLive and Let LiveDr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka believes that zoonotic disease is controllable by simultaneously working to improve the health of humans and animals, at the points where they meet.
2020 will be remembered as the Pandemic Year, when a deadly pathogen somehow moved from bat to human—and the rest is history still being written. Six out of 10 infectious diseases are zoonotic: everything from COVID and the other coronaviruses to rabies, West Nile, even the plague. In a Croesus-like effort to break the cycle, Denmark recently killed 17 million farmed mink to try to prevent further human infection—but that seems immoral as well as s...
2020-12-1725 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastDemocracy in AmericaThe U.S. election has come, but not quite gone as President Trump continues to resist the otherwise apparent victory of Joe Biden.
The U.S. election has come, but not quite gone as President Trump continues to resist the otherwise apparent victory of Joe Biden. Notwithstanding that drama, what did the voting tell us about America, Americans, and democracy?
Scott Miller, political and business consultant, and Josh Steiner, investor and adviser to Bloomberg LP, are deeply immersed in U.S. politics, from significantly different perspectives. In this episode of New Thinking for a New World...
2020-11-1233 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastAmazonian ArmageddonOnce again, the Amazon is burning—and deforestation may be approaching a tipping point that could turn the world’s largest rain forest into dry savanna or even dessert. What are the potential consequences? Why aren’t we terrified?...
Once again, the Amazon is burning—and deforestation may be approaching a tipping point that could turn the world’s largest rain forest into dry savanna or even dessert.
What are the potential consequences? Why aren’t we terrified? Who should be doing what?
André Guimarães, executive director of IPAM Amazonia, one of the premier research organiz...
2020-10-2924 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastHas China won?The competition between China and the United States is the defining geopolitical reality of the 21st century. The evolution of its new Great Game will determine whether our collective future will be one of prosperity or disaster. In this...
The competition between China and the United States is the defining geopolitical reality of the 21st century. The evolution of its new Great Game will determine whether our collective future will be one of prosperity or disaster.
In this episode of New Thinking for a New World, Alan Stoga talks to Kishore Mahbubani, the renowned Singaporean global s...
2020-10-2227 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastHappy (?) BirthdayThe United Nations turned 75 this year—but the pandemic overwhelmed its birthday party. The UN, built in a different world, has succeeded in its core mission: preventing World War III. But is the UN, as it is now constructed, relevant to the...
The United Nations turned 75 this year—but the pandemic overwhelmed its birthday party. The UN, built in a different world, has succeeded in its core mission: preventing World War III. But is the UN, as it is now constructed, relevant to the problems of the 21st century?
In this episode Alan Stoga talks to Jan Elia...
2020-10-1525 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastBattlegroundsGeneral H.R. McMaster, a highly decorated U.S. military officer, discusses how he believes the U. S. and like-minded countries can maneuver through today’s complicated global realities to produce peace and prosperity for their citizens.
Do you think we live in a world that is increasingly dangerous, full of not just Great Power competitors, but potential enemies? A world of winners and losers, where conflict and even war are possible?
Such a world is described by General H.R. McMaster, a highly decorated U.S. military officer, former national security advisor and historian in his mo...
2020-10-0728 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastMigrants (barely) SurvivingLike a great magician, the pandemic has drawn our attention away from things that are hiding in plain sight. One of those has been the plight of millions of refugees and migrants who are in refugee camps or trying to escape from war, violence, poverty...
Like a great magician, the pandemic has drawn our attention away from things that are hiding in plain sight. One of those has been the plight of millions of refugees and migrants who are in refugee camps or trying to escape from war, violence, poverty or other scourges.
In this episode, Myrto...
2020-10-0131 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastA World DividedThe world's a mess. The great powers today, the Chinese and the Americans, seem to disagree on most things.
The world's a mess. The great powers today, the Chinese and the Americans, seem to disagree on most things. The UK has left the EU and the Europeans are split North against South, East against West. China's pushing its neighbors. Russia's pecking at Europe's borders. Although each of those has its own story, is there something more fundamental going on? Are the geopolitical tectonic plates shifting?
In this episode of New Thinking for a New World Alan Stoga l...
2020-09-2427 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastAfrica AgonistesSouth Sudan celebrated its hard-won independence in 2011, but today is considered one of the most fragile, even failed states in the world.
South Sudan celebrated its hard-won independence in 2011, but today is considered one of the most fragile, even failed states in the world. What went wrong? Why are democratic governance and prosperity so elusive for the people of Sudan and much of the rest of the Horn of Africa?
Peter Biar Ajak has answers and ideas for a better future. Ajak—a South Sudanese political activist, economist and former political prisoner—recently fled to asylum in the...
2020-09-1728 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastA Silver Lining to the Covid Disaster?Ana Palacio, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Spain, Magnus Schöldtz, former Ambassador at the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, talk about Europes challenges in this week's podcast.
Closed borders, hoarded medical equipment, confused policies. By any measures, the pandemic has not been EU's finest hour. But could it been bad enough that Europe's leaders now know that they must do better? Might the failures of the last months produce a more successful future for Europe?
Ana Palacio, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Spain and a leading European and Foreign affairs scholar, Magnus Schöldtz, fo...
2020-09-0938 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastWar, What is it Good For?What happens if Turkey’s aggressive president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan miscalculates how far he can push the Greeks?Is war possible? Will Greece’s European allies come to its rescue? What happens if Turkey’s aggressive...
Turkey and Greece are locked in a struggle in the Eastern Mediterranean that feels like it belongs more in 1920 than in 2020. Is war possible? Will Greece’s European allies come to its rescue? What happens if Turkey’s aggressive president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan miscalculates how far he can push the Greeks?
In this New Thinking for a New World podcast, Alan...
2020-09-0225 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastSometimes History RhymesEgypt’s Nabil Fahmy and Turkey’s Cengiz Çandar discuss what Erdogan wants as he is playing a high stakes game that some think could even lead to war between Turkey and Greece or Egypt.
One hundred years ago to the month, the collapsing Ottoman Empire was finally out of its misery in the Treaty of Sevre. However, in an echo of American author Mark Twain’s dictum that history never repeats, but sometimes rhymes, President Erdogan of Turkey today seems set on creating a new Ottoman power with reach from North Africa through the Eastern Mediterranean to the Levant...
2020-08-2027 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastAre We Really All in This Together?Cardinal Czerny argues that any approach to Covid-19 that does not include those most vulnerable among us is a non-solution. Who then seems to have overlooked these people?
Why do we seem unable to work together to manage our common home? Is the Covid pandemic considered “global” while Ebola was not, because Covid has laid waste to rich countries, while Ebola did not? Is the failure of governments that we see almost everywhere actually the failure of citizens for not demanding more of their leaders? Cardinal Michael Czerny, who heads the Vatican’s work on refugees and migrants, offers uncomfortable a...
2020-08-1327 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastAfrican PossibilitiesHow can Africa cope? Are solutions—or, at least, possibilities—to be found at the local, national or regional level? Listen to Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, mayor of Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown, and Carole Wainaina, a leader of Africa50
At least so far, what plagues Africa is less Covid-19, than its consequences: collapsed economies, an industrial world that is closing to Africa, a deceleration (if not reversal) in globalization, a new “Cold War” (this time between China and the West), severe climate change, and the urgent need to grow and develop faster to serve its young, demanding population. How can Af...
2020-08-0629 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastSTOP SLAVERY NOW!Why do nations, rich and poor, tolerate widespread slavery, human trafficking and even the buying and selling of young children in the 21st century?
Why do nations, rich and poor, tolerate widespread slavery, human trafficking and even the buying and selling of young children in the 21st century? These abominations exist everywhere and at a scale that makes them one of the largest global criminal enterprises. How is that possible? In this episode of New Thinking for a New World, Alan Stoga explores the darkness of slavery—which consumes even very young children—with India’s Sunitha Krishnan...
2020-07-3021 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastThe Covid Economy: Your Bust, My BoomWhat happens when the global economy collapses, but global financial markets boom? That’s one of the issues explored in the conversation with German business leader Kurt Lauk and long-time top American central banker Terry Checki.
Like everything in life, Covid is producing losers and winners, not the least from the tsunami-like global recession it has spawned. It’s even possible that the pernicious economic effects will linger long after the pandemic has faded—and that the winners will still be winners. That’s one of the issues explored in the latest episode of the Tällberg Foundation’s New Thinkin...
2020-07-2328 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastIs America Finished?Why has America stopped investing in itself? We speak with Christine Loh who is a Hong Kong-based academic, environmentalist, and former government official with deep ties to the United States
Why has America stopped investing in itself? Why do things—from cell phones to highways to schools to trains—work so much better in so many countries that used to look to the United States as their model? Tällberg’s New Thinking for a New World podcast explores those questions and others with Christine Loh who is a Hong Kong-based academic, environmentalist, and former government official with deep ties to—an...
2020-07-1027 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastAmerica: Darkness Before the Crack of Dawn?Castañeda talks about some of the ideas from his latest book, “America Through Foreign Eyes” and explains why he thinks the United States is heading in exactly the right direction.
Maybe this mess—a resurgent pandemic, collapsing economy, screaming politicians, and deep racial inequalities laid bare—is exactly what the United States needs. Maybe the outcome will be a more normal country, instead of one that thinks it is exceptional. That might be better for Americans as well as for the rest of the world, argues Jorge Castañeda, a Mexican educator, diplomat, author and former Foreign Minister in Tällber...
2020-07-0225 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastAre “we” capable of fixing all that is breaking? Or is it too late?Looking for silver linings may be an integral part of the human condition. Even during the bleakest moments—like during a global pandemic, a global recession, leadership failures and profound social stress almost everywhere—we try to find...
Looking for silver linings may be an integral part of the human condition. Even during the bleakest moments—like during a global pandemic, a global recession, leadership failures and profound social stress almost everywhere—we try to find bits and pieces of positive energy and new ideas. In this episode of Tällberg’s "New Thinking for a New World” host Alan Stoga lea...
2020-06-2631 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastIs America Racist — if so, will it ever not be?Three global thinkers—a Mexican journalist (Ana Paula Ordorica), a Kenyan poet (Sitawa Namwalie) and a Congolese choreographer (Faustin Linyekula)—what they think is happening in America now.
American Carnage or American Dream? It matters to everyone everywhere whether or not the United States is in terminal decline or (painfully) resetting the basis of its democracy and its society. If the former, the global order will change in incalculable ways, for better or for worse. If the latter, life after the pandemic could actually be better. In Tällberg’s New Thinking for a New World podcast series...
2020-06-1831 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastFirst, help yourself - A Moroccan leader on coping with life after CovidLike everywhere else, Morocco must cope with the potentially overwhelming health, economic and political consequences of the pandemic. But unlike most places, the country has a well-designed, focused strategy to mitigate the worst of what is...
Like everywhere else, Morocco must cope with the potentially overwhelming health, economic and political consequences of the pandemic. But unlike most places, the country has a well-designed, focused strategy to mitigate the worst of what is happening and, possibly, to position itself—and the rest of Africa—for a better future. In this episode, Ahmed Reda Chami—President of the Economic, Social a...
2020-06-1029 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastThe Millennial FutureIn the midst of a global pandemic, many countries, leaders and people have turned local. That is not all bad: some people are working to strengthen their local communities, exploring new grassroots solutions and showing support for local...
In the midst of a global pandemic, many countries, leaders and people have turned local. That is not all bad: some people are working to strengthen their local communities, exploring new grassroots solutions and showing support for local businesses. Could these contribute to a new normal that is more people-oriented and more sustainable? Is it possible to build a new kind o...
2020-06-0431 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastIs it possible to be optimistic about climate change?For the first time in 75 years, the whole world is focused on the same problem and, in the process, mobilizing unprecedented political will, state authority and fiscal resources as well as relying on scientists to build evidence-based policies. How do...
For the first time in 75 years, the whole world is focused on the same problem and, in the process, mobilizing unprecedented political will, state authority and fiscal resources as well as relying on scientists to build evidence-based policies. How do we transfer all of that energy to addressing even the larger, more deadly challenge of climate change? ...
2020-05-2830 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastIs Europe’s future green or black?The global Covid-19 pandemic has exposed deep fissures in the global political and economic fabric. For democracy to survive, the social contract needs to be reimagined; economies needs to be re-engineered and climate change - that is now accelerating...
The global Covid-19 pandemic has exposed deep fissures in the global political and economic fabric. For democracy to survive, the social contract needs to be reimagined; economies needs to be re-engineered and climate change - that is now accelerating at a pace that could quickly dwarf the consequences of the pandemic - needs to be confronted. In this e...
2020-05-2124 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastThe American ConditionWhat is the state of the Union? Has the American dream become American carnage? Covid-19 has laid bare many pre-existing fissures and deep distress in American society. Can the exhausted majority reassert themselves on the back of this crisis? ...
What is the state of the Union? Has the American dream become American carnage? Covid-19 has laid bare many pre-existing fissures and deep distress in American society. Can the exhausted majority reassert themselves on the back of this crisis? Will the pandemic allow the emergence of a culture of competence and experience, instead of the deep partisanship and politicization that ha...
2020-05-1430 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastClimate after CovidChristiana Figueres—climate activist, one of the key architects of the Paris Climate Agreement and 2016 Tällberg/Eliasson Global Leadership Prize winner—passionately believes that the pandemic offers a unique opportunity to focus on constructive...
Christiana Figueres—climate activist, one of the key architects of the Paris Climate Agreement and 2016 Tällberg/Eliasson Global Leadership Prize winner—passionately believes that the pandemic offers a unique opportunity to focus on constructive climate action. In this New Thinking for a New World podcast, she discusses the possibility of leveraging the massive political and economic resources that governments around the world are mobilizing...
2020-04-3023 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastThe value(s) of democracyDemocracy is under huge pressure everywhere, made worse by the global pandemic. Too many governments in too many places are failing to deliver on the basic social contract with their citizens. In this podcast, celebrated photographer and...
Democracy is under huge pressure everywhere, made worse by the global pandemic. Too many governments in too many places are failing to deliver on the basic social contract with their citizens. In this podcast, celebrated photographer and human rights activist Shahidul Alam of Bangladesh discusses these issues from the perspective of a country which struggles to conduct fair elections, where inequality is ex...
2020-04-2322 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastWill Democracy Survive Covid-19?Democracy and democratic institutions were under severe pressure well before the novel Coronavirus appeared. Could the added burden of the pandemic break the back of democracy as we have known it? How worried should we be by governments proclaiming...
Democracy and democratic institutions were under severe pressure well before the novel Coronavirus appeared. Could the added burden of the pandemic break the back of democracy as we have known it? How worried should we be by governments proclaiming wartime powers and instituting new kinds of location and information tracking, all in the name of safety? Gabriela Cuevas...
2020-04-1629 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastUnderstanding Coronavirus and its ImplicationsAnne Goldfeld, 2019 Tällberg/Eliasson Global Leadership Prize winner, is a clinician and a medical doctor with long experience—in the lab and on the front lines of care—with epidemics. Together with Alan Stoga, the Tällberg Foundation’s...
Anne Goldfeld, 2019 Tällberg/Eliasson Global Leadership Prize winner, is a clinician and a medical doctor with long experience—in the lab and on the front lines of care—with epidemics. Together with Alan Stoga, the Tällberg Foundation’s chairman, she discusses what we know about Covid19 and what we still need to learn--and why it is a global problem t...
2020-04-0930 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastWhat is a thought?Rafael Yuste, a professor of biological sciences at Columbia University and a 2018 Tällberg Eliasson Global Leader speaks with Alan Stoga, the Tällberg Foundation’s chairman about recent and prospective progress in neuroscience. Could our...
Rafael Yuste, a professor of biological sciences at Columbia University and a 2018 Tällberg Eliasson Global Leader speaks with Alan Stoga, the Tällberg Foundation’s chairman about recent and prospective progress in neuroscience. Could our evolving understanding of the human brain lead to a new Renaissance? What are the implications of this new knowledge? How do we protect each individual’s neural identity?
2020-04-0227 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastGrappling with the UnknownThe three 2019 Tällberg/Eliasson Global Leadership Prize winners meet after their participation in the “New Thinking in a New World” workshop in Nairobi, Kenya. Anne Goldfield, Faustin Linyekula and Saul Griffith share their perspectives on the...
The three 2019 Tällberg/Eliasson Global Leadership Prize winners meet after their participation in the “New Thinking in a New World” workshop in Nairobi, Kenya. Anne Goldfield, Faustin Linyekula and Saul Griffith share their perspectives on the future and their relationship with it. Together they discover how their respective expertise - medicine, dance and fighting climate change - are all fueled by the myster...
2020-03-1924 min
A Glimpse of HRJeanna Tällberg | Det Omvända MentorskapetJeanna Tällberg arbetar som HR Direktör på Volkswagen och är en av de som har drivit Volkswagens mycket omtalade omvända mentorsprogram.
I det här avsnittet pratar vi om hur det är att arbeta i en mansdominerad bransch och vad effekten av ett omvänt mentorskap har varit för deras organisation. Vi pratar även om hur man kan skala upp detta mentorskap och inte bara kolla på kön.
2020-03-1837 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastWhat is the future of democracy?Are Western democracies the model to emulate for non-Western countries or do they require different models? Do democracies sufficiently represent all their constituents? How are minorities protected? Kenneth Lusaka (The Rt. Hon. Speaker of the Senate,...
Are Western democracies the model to emulate for non-Western countries or do they require different models? Do democracies sufficiently represent all their constituents? How are minorities protected?
Kenneth Lusaka (The Rt. Hon. Speaker of the Senate, Parliament of the Republic of Kenya), David Sperling (Research Professor and Senior Research Fellow, Strathmore Governance Centre; Kenya ) and Ulrika Karlsson (Special Advisor on Global...
2020-03-0517 min
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation PodcastUnpacking a Tällberg Workshop: Hopes, concerns and red threadsOur initial podcast was recorded in Nairobi, Kenya, after a Tällberg Workshop. Three members of the Tällberg Foundation community reflect on “New Thinking for a New World.” Optimism or pessimism about the future may have less to do...
Our initial podcast was recorded in Nairobi, Kenya, after a Tällberg Workshop. Three members of the Tällberg Foundation community reflect on “New Thinking for a New World.” Optimism or pessimism about the future may have less to do with facts, and more to do with filters: young or old, local or global, African or western. Participating in...
2020-02-2023 min
Karriärpodden#161 Jeanna TällbergJeanna Tällberg - HR-direktör, Volkswagen Group Sverige. I det här avsnittet får vi lära känna Jeanna och hur hennes resa har sett ut från socionom och arbete inom socialtjänsten till HR och ledarskapsutveckling globalt på Scania och 16 år inom Fordonsindustrin i ryggen. Vi får höra hur jämställdhet blivit en allt viktigare fråga för henne att driva, som ledde henne till idén med det så kallade “omvända mentorskapsprogrammet”. Det uppmärksammade projektet där man helt vänder på normerna och låter kvinnor bli mentorer åt de manliga chefer...
2020-01-1459 min