On behalf of Professor Hisham Mehanna and the Institute for Global Innovation at the University of Birmingham, I am delighted to share with you details of the upcoming Forum for Global Challenges. The Forum is a hybrid meeting running from Tuesday 3rd to Thursday 5th May 2022 at the ICC in Birmingham and will focus on the key topics of the green economy, restoring nature, the future of cities, mobilities and migration, education and employment, health and wellbeing, food and nutrition security and gender equality. These will be examined through the lenses of post-COVID recovery, strategies for transformation, ethical and effective leadership, and interconnectedness.
In collaboration with the World Bank, the Confederation of British Industry, the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the West Midlands Combined Authority, the Association of Commonwealth Universities, and UK Research and Innovation, the Forum for Global Challenges is a solutions-focussed international meeting that will bring together academics, policymakers, practitioners, civil society and the general public. The Forum will identify, share, and promote system-wide technological, policy, societal and behavioural solutions to the challenges of climate change and inequalities.