WORLD.MINDS ESPRESSO
Twice a month we are running short, informal video calls with hand-picked community members from around the world. We call them WORLD.MINDS ESPRESSO. Everybody logs in via our secure portal. Highly engaging Q&A between community members. No recording. Strict Chatham House Rule.
Previous and upcoming WORLD.MINDS ESPRESSOs with: the late Henry Kissinger, Bill Gates, renowned architect Lord Norman Foster, legendary Wall Street investor and founder of KKR Henry Kravis, legendary author Margaret Atwood, Gen. David Petraeus (former CIA Director), legendary investor Charlie Munger, former President of the UN Security Council Kishore Mahbubani, the late FW De Klerk (former President of South Africa and Nobelist — with Nelson Mandela), NYU professor Jonathan Haidt, novelist Ian McEwan, British the First Sea Lord of HM Royal Navy Admiral Sir Ben Key, Airbus CEO Michael Schöllhorn, Nobel laureates Paul Romer, Joe Stiglitz and Anton Zeilinger, CNN host Fareed Zakaria, former National Security Advisor John Bolton, former Member of House Lords and best-selling author Viscount Matt Ridley, investor Sir Bill Browder, Senior Curator of the MOMA Paola Antonelli, Trevor Mundel (President of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation‘s Global Health Program), Novartis CEO Vasant Narasimhan, Christoph Franz (former Chairman of Roche), legendary shareholder activist Bill Ackman, Harvard Professor Dan Gilbert, investor Ray Dalio, the world’s preeminent ethicist Peter Singer, leading business management thinker Jim Collins, historian Timothy Garton Ash, geopolitical mastermind George Friedman, visionary explorer Bertrand Piccard, award-winning Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde, the man behind Stoicism’s global revival Massimo Pigliucci, Harvard Professor and New York Times best-selling author Michael Sandel, former Secretary General of INTERPOL Jürgen Stock, Turing Prize winner Adi Shamir, Harvard Astronomer Avi Loeb, Yale University’s Nicholas Christakis, former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO Admiral James Stavridis, MIT star architect, designer and inventor Neri Oxman, Somali-born Dutch-American activist and author Ayaan Hirsi Ali, historian and best-selling author Niall Ferguson, cosmologist Sean Carroll, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, former US Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, and more.
IN PERSON SYMPOSIA
WORLD.MINDS is a real community of real people sharing real insights. Since we meet in person at our symposia and events, we know each other personally to a high degree. Indeed, we are a community, not a series of events.
2025
FRIDAY, 6 JUNE 2025
WORLD.MINDS WASHINGTON (WASHINGTON, DC)
WEDNESDAY, 17 SEPTEMBER 2025
WORLD.MINDS GEOPOLITICS (WARSAW)