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The potential of the new Global Citizens’ Assembly

Rich Wilson, CEO of the democratic innovation centre Iswe, presents the newly launched UN Global Citizens' Assembly and what it could mean for global governance.
weADAPT Knowledge Manager
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  • 12th May 2025
  • 1 min read
  • Event: 22/05/2025 - 15:00 (UTC +02:00) - 16:00 (UTC +02:00)
Photo: Antenna/Unsplash

Key information

🗓️ 22 May, 2025

⏰ 15:00-16.00 CET

🌆 Stockholm Resilience Centre, Albanovägen 28, Stockholm Albano house 1, floor 4, kitchen/lobby area

💻 Zoom link will be provided upon registration

About

In June 2025, the UN Global Citizen’s Assembly will start operating in the run up to COP 30. The assembly hopes to have 10,000 participants by COP30, 100,000 by COP31 and 10M by 2030, making it perhaps the largest democratic innovation taking place today. But what is the promise, limits, and future development of citizen involvement in policy-making of global concern?

Rich Wilson will present the assembly and explain how it seeks to create a new operating infrastructure for global governance.

About the speaker

Rich Wilson is a democratic innovation specialist and CEO of Iswe, an independent democractic innovation centre. Starting his career as an environmental economist, he has worked with the IPCC and Environmental Council, written policy reports and blogs on The Guardian, Carnegie Europe, and New Internationalist, and is the author of the book Anti Hero.

In 2004 he founded the public participation charity Involve, which under his leadership became a leading international centre for democratic innovation research, innovation and policy-making. Since then, he has worked with the UN, OECD, WHO and EU, and advised governments globally on democratic reform.

He is currently working with the UN to establish a permanent Global Citizens’ Assembly to give millions of people a powerful voice in decision-making.

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