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Former state, governmental officials to join Global Young Leaders Forum in Baku

18 August 2017 17:19 (UTC+04:00)
Former state, governmental officials to join Global Young Leaders Forum in Baku

By Laman Ismayilova

About 50 young leaders and researchers from around the world will join the Global Young Leaders Forum to be held in Baku.

The Global Young Leaders Forum is a new platform connecting young leaders with former and current heads of states and exploring many criteria of leadership.

The forum will be attended by about 50 young leaders and researchers from around the world, as well as representatives from prestigious programs such as Schwarzman, Rhodes, Fulbright, Marshall, Truman, Mitchell, Gates, and famous high education institutions like Oxford, California, Montpellier, Tsinghua, Leipzig, Georgetown, George Washington, Sorbonne, Sapienza, John Hopkins, Beijing, Princeton, Cornell, Yale, Stanford, Brown, Colombia, Liverpool, Chicago, Notre Dame, Michigan, Rotterdam, Barcelona universities and London School of Economics and Political Science, Paris School of Economics, and a number of young businessmen.

Children of the presidents of Macedonia and Montenegro, as well as former presidents and former prime ministers of Latvia, Ukraine, Albania, Andorra, and Bosnia and Herzegovina will arrive in Baku to participate in the Forum.

Nearly 20 attendees, including former leaders of government of various countries, influential public figures as well as heads of major corporations will join the forum.

Nizami Ganjavi International Center was created with the multiple aims of preserving the reach cultural heritage of the past as well as encouraging and fostering current scholarship, research, cultural activity, and social outreach.

The Center moves forward to build, an institution worthy of bearing the great name of Nizami Ganjavi with a hope it will become “a source of pride for Azerbaijan and the world”.

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