The World Leadership Alliance - Club de Madrid (WLA-CdM), a global assembly of over 110 democratic former Heads of State and Government from over 60 countries, convened its Annual Policy Dialogue in Madrid on 21-22 October 2019. Hosted in partnership with the IE...
Archive house and statue of Vint Cerf in Nha Trang
Dr. Vint Cerf, one of “the Father of the Internet” and World Leader in AI World Society Award, will be honored in Nha Trang, Vietnam in 2020. VietNet Information Highway, the first Internet of Vietnam applied by TCP/IP protocol , was born in Nha Trang city in...
UNESCO Director-General to Join Global Education Skills Forum in Dubai
(March 14th, 2016) Irina Bokova, director general of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), participated March 12 and 13 in the Global Education & Skills Forum in Dubai (United Arab Emirates), which focused on the theme...
Video: Prof. Torres explains the value of global citizenship
(7th March 2016) Boston Global Forum (BGF) friends will want to hear and see this learned and passionate presentation by Prof. Carlos Alberto Torres on the potential of global education and citizenship programs to promote world peace. At the end of his more formal...
Abe nominates economic ally to Bank of Japan board
(7th March 2016) Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s nomination of Makoto Sakurai, an obscure 70-year-old economist, to the board of the Bank of Japan signals his determination to ensure that the central bank supports Mr. Abe’s stimulative economic policies. Japan,...
UCLA Establishes New UNESCO Chair In Global Learning and Global Citizenship Education
(Feb.08, 2016, Los Angeles) – The UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies celebrated the establishment of a new United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Chair in Global Learning and Global Citizenship Education Monday...
Inauguration of the UCLA UNESCO Chair in Global Learning and Global Citizenship Education
(February 8, 2016) - Professor Carlos Alberto Torres, member of Boston Global Forum's Board of Thinkers, Distinguished Professor of Education at University of California - Los Angeles (UCLA), delivers his speech at the International Conference on Global Citizenship...
German leader Angela Merkel says refugees must return home once war is over
(Jan.31, 2016) - In an effort to placate the increasingly vocal critics of her open-door policy for refugees the German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday at a regional meeting of her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in the state of Mecklenburg-Western...