The Goals of the United Nations and distinguished contributors to the book “Remaking the world – The Age of Global Enlightenment”

Jun 13, 2021Event Updates

The soft copy of book “Remaking the World – The Age of Global Enlightenment” will be delivered to readers starting on June 21, 2021.

The book will introduce goals of the United Nations Centennial Initiative: contributing ideas and solutions in creating a path, to shape and remake the world in 2045 – the Global Age of Enlightenment. Here is the list of distinguished leaders and thinkers that contributed toward the book and the year of their contributions:

Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister of Japan (2015)

Ash Carter, Former US Secretary of Defense (2020)

Vint Cerf, “Father of the Internet”, Google (2020)

Nazli Choucri, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 5/2021

Ramu Damodaran, Chief of United Nations Academic Impact (5/2021)

Michael Dukakis, Former Governor of Massachusetts, Chair, Boston Global Forum (2021)

Robin Kelly, U.S. Representative (Illinois), 2020

Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations Secretary-General (2016)

Didzis Kļaviņš, University of Latvia (2021)

Taro Kono, Defense Minister, Japan (2019)

Zlatko Lagumdzija, Former Prime Minister, Bosnia & Herzegovina (2021)
Stavros Lambrinidis, EU Ambassador to the United States (2021)

Ursula von der Leyen, President of European Commission

Yasuhide Nakayama, Defense State Minister, Japan (2020)

Paul Nemitz, Principal Advisor, European Commission (2021)

Nguyen Anh Tuan, CEO, Boston Global Forum (2021)

Andreas Norlén, Speaker, Swedish Parliament (2020)

Joseph Nye, Harvard University (2020)

Zaneta Ozolina, University of Latvia, Co-Chair of Riga Conference (2021)

Thomas Patterson, Harvard University, 2021

Judea Pearl, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), 2020

Alex “Sandy” Pentland, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 2021

Sir Ian Duncan Smith, MP, UK Parliament (2020)

Vaira Vike-Freiberga, President of World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid, Former President of Latvia (2019)