Reporting from Strasbourg, Maria Mexi highlights the EU’s accelerating “Omnibus-isation” and its implications for governance, data rights, and the future of work.

Our Co-Chair, Professor Gudela Grote shares how uncertainty-as-enabling mindsets can equip leaders to navigate complex transitions and strengthen cooperation across institutions and the multilateral landscape.

Shruti Merin Lal shares insights from our Futures Balance work, exploring intergenerational equity in policymaking during Building Bridges Week.

Annika Erickson-Pearson brings three key takeaways from our Business & Conflict Community of Practice Annual Meeting, highlighting what responsible business in conflict demands today.

The Geneva Dialogue on Trade and Labour, hosted by the TASC Platform and the World Economic Forum Trade and Investment Team at the World Economic Forum headquarters on 27 October 2025, brought together country missions and institutional partners to reflect on how trade and labour policies can evolve together in times of transition.

Ms. Sally Bardayan Rivera, Deputy Permanent Representative of the Panama Mission to the WTO highlighted how deeply trade and labour are intertwined in Panama’s national story. From the transformative power of the Panama Canal to the role of skills, services, and logistics in sustaining global trade today, she underscored the need to design trade systems that invest in people and not just in markets.

Ambassador Valérie Berset Bircher, Deputy Head of International Labour Affairs at the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO), called for renewed multilateral cooperation to better connect trade and labour agendas, underscoring the importance of institutional coordination and policy coherence, particularly in a context of climate transition, automation, and shifting global competitiveness.

H.E. Ambassador James Ndirangu Waweru, Deputy Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of the Republic of Kenya to the United Nations Office in Geneva, spoke to the urgency of aligning trade and labour agendas in the context of Africa’s fast-evolving economic transitions.

H.E. Ambassador Ms. Nahida Sobhan, Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the UN and other International Organizations in Geneva, shared how Bangladesh’s own experience makes the case for formalising the trade and labour nexus through forward-looking policy reforms in which economic integration goes hand in hand with social inclusion.

Take-aways from the third in our series of AI Futures workshops at the ITU's AI for Good Global Summit, this year in collaboration with NACCE and SolveCC. We discuss best-practice solutions towards the realization of AI futures scenarios. 

Highlights from our expert workshop in collaboration with Cognizant and IASEAI, examining human accountability and control in increasingly complex and autonomous AI supply chains. Can humans still have agency alongside agentic AI systems? 

Marie-Laure Salles, Director of the Geneva Graduate Institute shares her highlights from convening the first meeting of academic partners of the Global Coalition for Social Justice and her perspective on the unique power of academia as a lever for social cohesion and legitimacy. 

Mekhla Jha shares a teaser of insights from our joint case study with the World Economic Forum and Africa Practice, building on extensive interviews exploring the promise and precarity of Kenya's digital transition for trade and labour. 

Keynotes from Miriam Caterina Roquel Chavez, Minister of Labour and Social Welfare, Guatemala and Lutfey Siddiqi, Special Envoy for International Affairs, Bangladesh, ground aspirations for transnational labour standards in national realities and bring to life the power of values-driven transitions. 

Yasmeen Chaudhry, Programme and Partnerships Manager, TASC Platform annoces the paper lauch: “Refugee Talent and the Digital Economy: A Private Sector Conversation”

Two Converging Shifts: Displacement and Digital Transformation

As refugee displacement becomes increasingly long-term, driven by war, climate shocks, and political instability, and digital transformation reshapes how we work, two powerful shifts are raising an urgent and timely question about the future of labour mobility. Can digital and remote work become viable, sustainable pathways for refugee talent integration?

During conflict businesses face new challenges and must make difficult decisions to adapt to more challenging circumstances.

Annika Erickson-Pearson, Community Manager, and Siniša Milatović, Business and Human rights Specialist at UNDP discuss helping businesses act as a force for good in conflict-affected areas and share their insights from two years of collective learning and collective action by the business and Conflict Community of Practice as they convene alongside the UN Forum on Business and Human Rights.