Episodes

2024 will be a stress test for democracy, with the election in the United States among the most dangerous potential breaking points. More often than not, awareness and the public debate will be shaped by and in the digital sphere. In the next of our series of highlight sessions from the 2023 Global Progress Action Summit, Roberta Braga (Director, Counter Disinformation Strategies at Equis, Supriya Dwivedi (Director of Policy and Engagement at McGill’s Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy a...

AI presents both enormous risk and as yet unimaginable opportunity. In the next of our series of highlight sessions from the 2023 Global Progress Action Summit, we hear from Dr. Alondra Nelson (Distinguished Senior Fellow at CAP Action, Former Head of the White House Office of Science and Technology), Andy Harrison (CEO of Section 32), and Benedict Macon-Cooney, (Chief Policy Strategist at Tony Blair Institute for Global Change) on regulating the unknowable, managing the risk, and harnessing the...

“Democracy is something that we have to win every day. Every week. Every month. Every human. Every new generation. All the time,” says Magdalena Andersson (Former Prime Minister of Sweden, Member of Parliament and Leader of Swedish Social Democrats). In the next of our series of highlight sessions from the 2023 Global Progress Action Summit, Patrick Gaspard (President and CEO at CAP Action) hosts a conversation with Andersson and David Miliband (President and CEO of the International Rescue Comm...

How can democracies deliver security and economic growth for people in an uncertain world? In the next of our series of highlight sessions from the 2023 Global Progress Action Summit, Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre of Norway and UK Labour Party Leader Keir Starmer talk about decreasing inequity and increasing the democracy dividend with political columnist Josie Pagani. This conversation took place on September 16, 2023, at the 2023 Global Progress Action Summit in Montréal hosted by Canada 20...

“We need a new pact: people and planet.” As we got through the most complex and comprehensive transformation in the economy that we've seen since the Industrial Revolution, how do we build economies with both of those in mind? In the next of our series of highlight sessions from the 2023 Global Progress Action Summit, Frances Colón (Senior Director of International Climate Policy - CAP Action) speaks with Gerald Butts (Vice Chairman of Eurasia Group) and Stefan Löfven (Co-Chair of the UN High-le...

Europe is at war. Global competition with China for economic and political influence is stronger than ever. In too many places, we are facing mass democratic backsliding. We have no choice but to face these challenges head on. In the next of our series of highlight sessions from the 2023 Global Progress Action Summit, Magdalena Andersson (Former Prime Minister of Sweden, Leader of Swedish Social Democrats), and Mélanie Joly (Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs), speak with Ben Rhodes (Former Un...

In the next of our series of highlight sessions from the 2023 Global Progress Action Summit, Tony Blair (Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Executive Chairman of the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change) shares the stage with Anna Gainey ( Member of Parliament, Canada) to talk about embracing innovation as a touchstone of new progressive politics, the challenge of confronting populism, and the importance of having clarity of direction as a government. This conversation took place...

In the next of our series of highlight sessions from the 2023 Global Progress Action Summit, Canada’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland delivers a thoughtful keynote on how Canada’s government sees the most pressing economic challenges facing Canadians, their plan to meet that challenge, and how we can renew the promise of the middle class. These remarks took place on September 16, 2023, at the 2023 Global Progress Action Summit in Montréal hosted by Canada 2020 an...

“Progressives build things that last.” In the next of our series of highlight sessions from the 2023 Global Progress Action Summit, Mark Carney (United Nations Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance, Former Governor of the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England, and Advisory Board Chair for Canada 2020) speaks about the closing the gap between what people value and what markets value, and how we can build real results that matter to everyone — like jobs, investment, growth, better incomes,...

In a decade that has already faced unprecedented economic, health, and environmental crises, there’s never been a more important time for progressives leaders to be coming together to share bold new ideas for building a better future. In this featured session of the 2023 Global Progress Action Summit, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Jonas Gahr Støre (Prime Minister of Norway), Jacinda Ardern (former Prime Minister of New Zealand ), and Sanna Marin (former Finnish Prime Minister) speak about the c...