Global Agenda Councils

The World Economic Forum is convening a Network of Global Agenda Councils (GACs), whose members are collaboratively addressing some of the world’s key issues to lay out solutions to pressing challenges. Council members are among the world’s leading and most influential thinkers.

Members are engaged in GACs on a yearly basis, from July to June. Every year, the World Economic Forum reassesses, based on a number of criteria, the membership of each of the GACs, as well as the issues covered by them.

For the 2009-2010 term, the focus of all of the GACs was to contribute to an overall World Economic Forum (Forum) institutional initiative, the Global Redesign Initiative (GRI) whose overall objective was to look at how the architecture of global cooperation could be redesigned not only to accommodate the world’s deeper interdependence but also to capitalize on it. The GACs developed the following proposals:

1. Healthcare Systems
2. Chronic Diseases and Conditions 
3. Healthcare Next Generation
4. Nutrition

An overall GRI Health proposal “Towards a New Paradigm for Health for All” was subsequently developed and presented at the Forum’s Global Redesign Summit that took place in Doha, Qatar, on 30-31 May. The Health Team at the Forum will continue to bring visibility to this work in the coming months.

For the 2010-2011 term, the Forum, through its health-related GACs, will focus on two issues:

1. Chronic Diseases and Well-being – the focus of the GAC will be on the incentives for health and well-being
2. Health System and Sector – the focus of this GAC will be on global cooperation in health in view of the unsustainable gap between healthcare expenditures and GDP, and the inefficiencies because of the fragmentation of healthcare delivery

For additional information on the Network of Global Agenda Councils, please follow this link: http://www.weforum.org/en/Communities/GlobalAgendaCouncils/