We have come together for this conference to think deeply about the kind of creative and courageous leadership that is needed at the local and global level to address the urgent challenges that face our world, including climate change, violent conflict, and a destabilizing global economic recession. We are in the midst of a crisis of global governance that can only be met with a partnership of government, business, and civil society and imaginative new approaches to our environmental, economic, and social problems.

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