Mission & Activities

The Global Economic Partnership, like the Global Economic Symposium, is action-oriented. Its mission involves:

• determining the role of business in helping to resolve the most pressing global economic problems,

• identifying the economic policies and institutions needed for business to contribute optimally to overcoming these problems.

In pursuing this mission, members of the Global Economic Partnership have the opportunity to participate in various specific activities.

• They are entitled to participate in the Global Economic Symposium.

• They can network with business leaders whose concerns are aligned with solutions to global economic problems.

• Through their participation in the Virtual GES, they can:  

1. highlight particularly promising business responses to global challenges and formulate business practices that promote a combination of global prosperity, global social responsibility, and global security,
2. help formulate guidelines for policy reforms to be implemented by local, regional, and national governments.

The “Strategy Perspectives” (proposed solutions) and the “Strategy Forum” (solution forums) in the Virtual GES provide background discussion platforms for the Global Economic Symposium.

• Further, members of the Global Economic Partnership can help shape the agenda of the Global Economic Symposium.

• They can join the Corporate Global Stewardship Initiative, which identifies opportunities for business to use its profit-making capabilities to advance humanitarian interests. 

•  They can organize private meetings with leading figures from academia, politics, and business during the Global Economic Symposium to discuss trends, scenarios, initiatives, and common interests.

In order to guarantee that the Global Economic Partnership efficiently formulates high-quality and appropriate policies and business strategies, it is supported by:

• the Kiel Institute, which provides the resources, the expertise and advice of one of Germany’s leading economics research institutes;

•  the German National Library of Economics, which provides the services of the world’s largest economics library;
• the Global Economic Association, which provides the expertise of renowned researchers.