GPPi kicks-off second Global Governance 2022 session in Beijing

GPPi held the second session of the Global Governance 2022 (GG2022) program in Beijing from 7 – 11 January 2013.

GG2022 brings together 24 fellows – eight each from Germany, China and the United States – for three dialogue sessions in Berlin (August 2012), Beijing (January 2013) and Washington, DC (May 2013). 

These GG2022 fellows form three working groups that focus on either global energy governance, global cyber security governance or global development governance. Each working group looks forward 10 years and develops scenarios for the future of international institutions in their respective focus area. 

The GG2022 methodology draws on the field of future research, including trend analysis and scenario planning approaches. In Beijing, the fellows continued to work on the scenario frameworks they produced in Berlin and developed histories and narratives for the scenarios of their respective focus areas. The fellows had the opportunity to present their findings to Beijing-based experts in the fields of cyber security, development and energy security. The discussion with the experts provided valuable feedback for the working groups. The input from the experts will feed into the final results and presentations the fellows will deliver in Washington, DC.

The Beijing session was co-organized with the School of Public Policy and Management (SPPM) at Tsinghua University and the Brookings-Tsinghua Center for Public Policy. The five day meeting was hosted at the SPPM. 

In Beijing, the fellows were joined by a host of experts who offered their input at different points during the five days. Among others, they included Yu Keping (deputy director of the Compilation and Translation Bureau of the Chinese Communist Party), Zhang Jianping (director of the Department of International Economic Cooperation at the National Development and Reform Commission), Liu Deliang (director of Asia-Pacific Institute for Cyber-Law Studies), Shantanu Mitra (senior economic advisor to the UK Department for International Development), Norbert Riedel (minister and deputy head of the German embassy in Beijing), and Wang Feng (director of the Brookings-Tsinghua Center for Public Policy).

GG2022 is conducted in collaboration with the Hertie School of Governance, the Brookings Institution, the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, Tsinghua University and Fudan University. The program is generously supported by the Robert Bosch Stiftung and the Transatlantic Program of the German Government (ERP Grant administered by the German Ministry for Economics and Technology). 

To learn more about the GG2022 program and the 24 fellows, visit the (GG2022) website.