The Club of Rome is a Swiss-based global think tank founded in 1968 consisting of current and former heads of state, UN bureaucrats, government officials, diplomats, scientists, economists and business leaders.
This paper draws on the results of a global "Think Tank on the Human Dimensions of Large Scale Marine Protected Areas" involving 125 people from 17 countries, including representatives from government agencies, non-governmental organizations, academia, professionals, industry, cultural/indigenous leaders and LSMPA site managers.
In her capacity as vice president of studies she helped place the Council on the University of Pennsylvania's 2013 global think tank ranking including #11 "think tank to watch" and #5 "best policy study/report by a think tank".
The need for financially self sufficient candidates has also grown — something that Milan Vaishnav, a South Asian associate at the global think tank Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, says can oftentimes comes with criminal ties.
A new study released by the University of California-Irvine in conjunction with the RAND corporation, a non-profit global think tank, shows a correlation between states that have legalized marijuana and reduced rates of opioid addiction.
Steve Young, Executive Director of the Caux Roundtable, a global think tank, believes it is critical, for the moral legitimacy of any new model of capitalism, that business leaders in finance and other industries focus on, have input into, and ultimately align their enterprises with societal goals like these.
In one of my weekend meetings with the education gurus, I learned about an upcoming two-day global think tank that will help set the framework for open learning analytics to be used to measure learner outcome in education for the next fifteen years.
TEDxTheWoodlands, an offshoot of the global think-tank conference TED, was organized as a result.
But trends that can't continue, won't, says Glenn Yago of the Milken Institute, a global think-tank.
