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and New ideas a home
The TASC Platform develops tools, shares perspectives and advances new capabilities to help policymakers make sense of change, strengthen resilience and develop people-focused policy responses.
Mobilizing Academia as a Force for Social Justice
Ahead of the 2026 Annual Forum of the ILO’s Global Coalition for Social Justice, academic partners gathered virtually on 03 September 2026 for their second Academic Meeting.
Co-hosted by the Geneva Graduate Institute, University of Panama and Stellenbosch University, this exchange explored how research, regional engagement and academic collaboration can translate knowledge into action for social justice.
Who Shapes AI Governance?
These event highlights capture key governance insights from the Use at Your Own Risk? Integrating Developers into AI Governance, convened alongside the first UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance.
The event explored who is developing AI today, how responsibility is distributed across the AI value chain, and what it takes to turn accountability into governance in practice.
Preparing Governance for Just Transitions: A Policy Guide and Readiness Framework
How can just transitions be delivered in practice? This article presents TASC Platform’s new Policy Guide as a governance-readiness framework for identifying risks early, closing accountability gaps, and building more coherent, inclusive, and actionable transition planning.
New UNEN Paper: Progressing Beyond GDP
A new paper by the UN Economist Network, led by Richard Samans and co-authored with Chafik Ben Rouin, Tasneem Mirza, Stuart Davies, Uma Rani, and Sara Castro de Hallgren, proposes moving beyond GDP through a Multidimensional Living Standards Index (MLSI) and a new headline measure, Gross National Sustainable Development (GNSD), integrating economic output with lived experience to better guide policy on inequality, AI, climate, and inclusive growth.
Leadership in Uncertain Times: From Myanmar to a Global Dialogue
Claudine Haenni, with support of the TASC Platform, GCSP, and the Asian Institute of Hospitality Management at Les Roches, explores how leadership development in uncertain times drives change. Highlighting how participative training and partnerships equip leaders in Myanmar to navigate complexity and contribute to global dialogue.
Digital Dividends or Dependency? Industrial policy in the age of digital economies
In their contribution to the International Institute for Sustainable Development’s Trade and Sustainability Review, Maria Mexi and Kitrhona Cerri unpack how platforms, data and algorithms are redefining industrial policy, and the risks of falling into digital dependency. Drawing on Kenya’s digital economy, they examine what it takes to turn digital growth into broader local benefits.
Richard Samans joins the Geneva Graduate Institute as a Senior Fellow
The Geneva Graduate Institute and Center for Trade and Economic Integration (CTEI) is delighted to be joined this year by Richard Samans, a leading author and international authority on the fundamental reform of economic policy, corporate governance and the academic discipline of economics to support a more inclusive and environmentally sustainable future.
INTERVIEW WITH GILBERT F. HOUNGBO, DIRECTOR-GENERAL, ILO
The Director-General of the International Labour Organization (ILO), highlights the multiple crises and existing trends that are shaping the world of work. He emphasizes the importance of human-centered policies, working together, and prioritizing social justice to achieve a sustainable and equitable future.
AI, Resilience and the Future of Work
"Cooperation in a Fragmented World," the topic of this year's World Economic Forum in Davos, marked the end of a "year of shocks and upheaval," as TASC Platform Co-Chair, economist and Professor Richard Baldwin, describes it. Baldwin, who has been a regular attendee at the forum, sat down with the TASC Platform team to share his takeaways from the Annual Meeting in January.
