Confronting the Great Challenges

Around the world and here in the United States, providing economic opportunity for all is an increasingly daunting challenge. How can we create more just and equitable societies for everyone, including the world's most vulnerable people?

With longstanding alliances falling into jeopardy and the world’s most powerful nations grappling with the idea of peace, security remains one of the most important topics of our time. 

Around the world, issues related to social justice and human rights are more salient than ever. How do we work together to ensure equal rights and equitable opportunities for all?

Climate change may be the most important long-term threat facing humanity with potentially profound implications for security, social justice, economic inequality and democratic governance.

Effective democratic governance is crucial to solving all the other great challenges of our time, yet democracy is under unprecedented threat around the world.