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EMERGING
CHALLENGES
THINKERS
SOLUTIONS
WORLD
A global perspective: sharing ideas across
sectors, ethnicities, national borders, and
issue silos
POLICY
Catalyzing change through constructive
responses to shared challenges

EMERGING VOICES
For more than 50 years, the World Policy Institute
has nurtured the next generation of thought leaders.
We put a priority on bringing new voices into policy
conversations, reflecting a diversity and freshness of
ideas among our fellows, interns, guest speakers, and
World Policy Journal and online contributors.
Fresh Global Perspectives
• Authors from 37 countries appeared in
the pages of World Policy Journal last year.
Many of these are eminent voices in their
own regions but had not yet come to
the attention of US or global audiences.
More than half of our authors are women,
in subject areas where women’s voices
typically are underrepresented.
• Senior Fellow Belinda Cooper is
working with the Center for Truth,
Justice and Memory (Hafiza Merkezi),
based in Istanbul, to catalogue Turkish
organizations memorializing persecuted
groups. The project convenes groups from
around the world to exchange experiences
on historical memory, minorities and
security, and democratization.
• The Arts and Policy Incubator brings
together artists and the policy community
to find creative ways to reach hearts and
minds—and, in turn, hands and feet.
Fellows
The World Policy Institute provides a
platform, community, and support system
for thought leaders with a wide range of
expertise who make complex global challenges
accessible and relevant to a wider audience.
Internships
Every year, the World Policy Institute hosts
and mentors approximately three dozen
students in policy development, publishing,
research, and nonprofit management. Interns
hail from top universities around the world,
from Sri Lanka to Singapore, Argentina to
Australia, and New York to the Netherlands.
Recent interns have gone on to hold positions
in business, policy, and media organizations
including the White House, TD Bank,
Merrill Lynch, the Peace Corps, The Caravan
(India), USAID, and ABC News.
Spotlight on World Policy
Intern Alumnus —
Saim Saeed, 2010–2011
In 2007, Saim was 16 years old and one
of only two Pakistanis studying in India.
Sidestepping the visa restrictions to travel
across a country that was much maligned
but hardly visited by Pakistanis, Saim faced
questions about his identity by Indians and
Pakistanis alike, an experience that shaped
his thinking on nationalism in South Asia.
Now a senior at Bard College, Saim was
recently awarded the 63rd annual Student
Conference on US Affairs (SCUSA) award
at West Point. In June 2012, he published
a New York Times op-ed, “Shouting in the
Mirror,” on the daily border ceremony
between Pakistan and India.
Senior Fellows
Ruthie Ackerman
Alon Ben-Meir
Susan Benesch
Ian Bremmer
Belinda Cooper
Patricia DeGennaro
Claudia Dreifus
Siddharth Dube (India)
Stephanie Elizondo Griest
Mira Kamdar (France)
Peter Kaufman
Nina Khrushcheva
Todd Lester
Jeff Madrick
James Nolt (China)
Silvana Paternostro
William Powers
Kavitha Rajagopalan
Swadesh Rana
Andrew Reding
Sherle Schwenninger
Kim Taipale
Masaru Tamamoto (Japan)
Martin Walker
Lissa Weinmann
Distinguished
Senior Fellows
Eric Alterman
Alan Wolfe
Project Leaders
Elmira Bayrasli
Monique El-Faizy
Michelle Fanzo
Paul Hockenos (Germany)
Damaso Reyes (Spain)
Khadija Sharife (South Africa)
David Stevens
Neelam Verjee (Kenya)
Associate Fellows
Erica Dingman
Shaun Randol

IMPACTING
PUBLIC POLICY
DEBATES
Dangerous Speech
Senior Fellow Susan Benesch has developed a groundbreaking analytical
framework for distinguishing between language that is merely repugnant and
that which has a chance of inciting atrocities. The framework offers strategies
for limiting the catastrophic effects of dangerous speech in pre-genocidal
situations without impeding the right to freedom of expression. The United
Nations Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide adopted some of her
criteria when issuing public statements on Libya and Ivory Coast. Trainers
at Fort Bragg, home of the US Army Special Operations, briefed soldiers
deploying to Kenya on the five defining characteristics of dangerous speech
as part of a session on radio. Benesch’s Spring 2012 World Policy Journal cover
article, “Words as Weapons,” has become required reading for a University of
Texas class on contemporary communications. It was featured in the Boston
Globe, The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, TheBrowser,
Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Asia News, Ekantipur (Nepal), The
Times of India, and a PBS podcast.
The Water-Energy Nexus
The Water-Energy Nexus paper continues to receive media mentions
a year and a half after its release. The paper has been cited in many
publications such as GreenBiz, Sustainablebusiness.com, Salon, Forbes,
Reuters, Japan Times, PG&E’s Next 100, and was even sourced at the
Bonn2011 Conference. It has been used in presentations by professors
of Environmental Sciences and Global Health. Diana Glassman, WPI
Director and the paper’s co-author, spoke on the Water-Energy Nexus
at the Water Summit V in Milwaukee and was quoted in the Milwaukee
Journal Sentinel, WisBusiness, Environmental, Health and Safety News, and
Courier Post Online.
Redefining Prosperity
Inspired by William Powers’ award-winning book Twelve by
Twelve, in its fourth printing and released in Chinese in late 2012,
the Redefining Prosperity project is building a global grassroots
coalition to stimulate dialogue around the interplay among smart
consumption, well-being, and sustainability. A national publicity
tour paired with an experts roundtable in New York, digital coalition
building, and a package of World Policy Journal articles exploring
“How Much Is Enough” exposed several million people to the book’s
look “beyond the American dream.” In 2013, we will construct
an interactive 12’x12’ house and art installation in New York
City, intended to spark thought and reflection leading to smarter
consumption. The next phase of the project will engage partners
around the world, particularly in rapidly growing developing nations,
to commission 12x12-inspired structures in their cities.
Top: From Hate Speech
to Social Networks: Susan
Benesch at Yale Law School
Middle: World Policy
President Michele Wucker,
ClimateWeek 2012
Left: English and Chinese
editions of Twelve by
Twelve, by William Powers
Below: Artist rendition of
12’x12’ installation.
(Photo: Betsy Damon,
Simon Draper, David
D’Ostilio)
Opposite page: World Policy
Project Leader Monique
El-Faizy on the Egyptian
elections

BROADENING
THE
CONVERSATION
Our audience includes opinion leaders
and policy makers at the highest
levels, as well as the new generation of
emerging leaders. World Policy Journal
has readers in 166 countries. Followers
of @WorldPolicy on Twitter quadrupled
in 18 months and expanded to nearly
150 countries.
“Islam and Chechnya”
A photo essay by Diana Markosian for
the Spring 2012 World Policy Journal
Portfolio. Seda Malakhadzheva, 15,
sits beside friends as they adjust her
hijab, which she began wearing despite
her parents’ disapproval. Women
who go out uncovered are targets. For
weeks last summer, men in cars drove
through town shooting paint-balls at
women without headscarves.
Top Left: A geographic
representation of all @WorldPolicy’s
Twitter followers (courtesy of
Tweepsmap).

WORLD POLICY JOURNAL
For more than 30 years,World Policy Journal has
been known for lively, intelligent writing that
challenges conventional wisdom. Four times a
year, we cover the most pressing issues in global
affairs, injecting new ideas and fresh approaches
into public debate and discovering new writers and
stories before they hit the front pages.
An essay about innovation
by science fiction writer Neal
Stephenson in the Fall 2011 issue
generated over 100,000 visits to
worldpolicy.org in just a few days
after mentions in The Economist,
The New York Times, Mother Jones,
and Wired. Arguing that shortterm
thinking and the fear of
failure hampers global innovation
and calling for creative thinkers to
put their energies into inspiring
scientists and engineers, the article
also attracted attention from the
futurism, tech, science fiction, and
pop culture communities. The article has been a call to arms of sorts
for a new “solarpunk” movement that uses science fiction to create
visions for a sustainable future in a world of increasing scarcity.
World Policy Board member Peter
Marber’s Spring 2012 article, “Brave
New Math,” made waves far beyond
the economic sphere. His call to
replace faulty indicators like GDP,
inflation, and unemployment with a
greater diversity of new metrics was
cited in the Freakonomics blog, The
Daily Beast’s The Dish blog, and in
Caijing, China’s leading independent
business magazine.
French scholar Olivier
Roy’s Winter 2012 article,
“Breakthroughs in Faith,” was
featured as a “best of the moment”
article on TheBrowser, and on
Andrew Sullivan’s blog on The
Daily Beast; and was widely
circulated by leading experts and
policy makers from Paris to Israel
to India.
Harvard international affairs
professor Stephen Walt cited David
Unger’s Spring 2012 article “New
Internationalism” as one of the best
articles of the moment on the web,
saying Unger’s “prescriptions are a
big step toward a less hypocritical
and more effective foreign
policy.” Stanley Pignal’s article
on EU regulation and tightening
integration was widely read in
Brussels.

WORLD POLICY EVENTS
2011-2012
CONVENING STAKEHOLDERS
By bringing together experts and
insiders with policy makers, business
leaders, members of the media,
emerging thought leaders, and artists,
we develop wider circles of influence
and catalyze creative thinking and
broad support behind innovative
policy solutions.
World Policy Roundtables
World Policy Roundtables bring together business, finance, and
policy leaders to highlight key trends and generate creative policy
approaches across our core issues, such as economy, resource
sustainability, and migration.
The Political Salon
The Political Salon convenes young and mid-career professionals from
a variety of backgrounds, professions, and political persuasions for
evening discussions on a range of current global issues.
CHALLENGING
CONVENTIONAL WISDOM
By bringing new perspectives to
policy debates, we draw attention to
issues that have not received enough
attention –and to new approaches
to long-standing problems.
EMBRACING
A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE
Some challenges cannot be solved
within national borders alone, nor
through narrowly defined self-interest.
We convene people who bring a
broader set of ideas, questions, and
answers from around the world.
Top: Every Nation for Itself: A Political Salon
with Ian Bremmer.
Middle: Zombie Banks: A Political Salon with
Yalman Onaran, at Eurasia Group.
Right: World Policy Journal Editor David A.
Andelman at the Blouin Creative Leadership
Summit
Far Right: Getting out of the Debt Mess: A
Political Salon with World Policy Board member
Hans Humes

Political Salons
Dark Market and the
Cybercrime Epidemic with
Misha Glenny and Kim Taipale
October 11, 2011
Getting Out of the Debt
Mess with Hans Humes and
Michele Wucker November 8,
2011
Aerotropolis with Greg
Lindsay and Michelle Fanzo
November 14, 2011
Occupy the World with Mira
Kamdar November 29, 2011
Zombie Banks with Yalman
Onaran and Dan Alamariu
December 12, 2011
Wanted Women with
Deborah Scroggins and Patricia
DeGennaro December 17, 2011
What the US Can Learn
From China with Ann Lee and
Ian Bremmer February 6, 2012
Unleashing Entrepreneurship
Potential with Elmira Bayrasli
March 6, 2012
The German Energy
Transition: From Nuclear
Power to Renewables with
Jochen Flasbarth April 11, 2012
Europe’s Closing Borders
with Damaso Reyes April 12,
2012
Finishing the Job the MDGs
Started with John McArthur
April 24, 2012
Every Nation for Itself with
Ian Bremmer June 7, 2012
Responsibility to Protect
with Jared Genser June 26, 2012
World Economic
Roundtables in
partnership with New
America Foundation
A World in Crisis Risk,
Volatility, and Competing
National Interests in the New
Global Economy with Nader
Mousavizadeh September 21,
2011
The European Debt Crisis
and the Future of the
Transatlantic Economy
October 24, 2011
Breakfast on China’s
Economy with Dr. Yasheng
Huang November 29, 2011
Global Implications of Rising
Inequality, Unemployment,
and Instability with Michael
Kumhof and Raymond Torres
December 12, 2011
Eurozone Crisis 2012 with
Megan Greene January 18, 2012
Eurozone Crisis with the
German Deputy Finance
Minister Steffen Kampeter
February 2, 2012
Mapping the Impact of
World Financial Reform with
Ranu Daval, Robert Herz, and
Edward Greene February 9,
2012
India’s Labor Market and
Human Talent Outlook:
Implications for the Indian
and World Economies with
Shalini Agarwal April 3, 2012
What I Learned on Wall
Street with Sallie Krawcheck
June 27, 2012
China’s Economic Future
and the Chongqing Question
with Kevin Lu July 9, 2012
What the China Beige Book
Reveals About the Chinese
Economy with Leland Miller
and Craig Charney August 14,
2012
Other Events and
Partnerships
Financial Reregulation
and the Future of Wall
Street with Jeff Madrick and
Herb Allison at The Century
Foundation September 16, 2011
ClimateWeek NYC 2011:
The Energy-Water Nexus
with Jeff Fulgham, Sheeraz
Haji, Diana Glassman, and
Frank Zammataro at WNYC
September 22, 2011
Womensphere Global
Summit: Creating the Future
September 23, 2011
Economics of Good and Evil
with Tomáš Sedláček at NYU’s
Institute for Public Knowledge
October 5, 2011
Ian Cuthbertson Memorial
Lecture: Democratic
Transitions and
Counterterrorism with
Naureen Chowdhury Fink, Scott
Helfstein, and Andrew Nagorski
at EastWest Institute December
7, 2011
New York Screening of
Bhopali December 10, 2011
The Water-Energy-Food
Nexus: A Roundtable on
the New Global Resource
Challenge with Tara Achayara,
Diana Glassman, and Marc
Zornes January 22, 2012
The Emergency State with
David C. Unger February 21,
2012
AGRION Sustainability
Reporting Half-Day
Conference April 11, 2012
The Future of the City:
Thought Leadership
Forum with Scott Stringer
and moderator Ester R. Fuchs
at Columbia’s School of
International and Public Affairs
April 12, 2012
Democratization in Turkey:
Progress and Pitfalls with
Özge Genç, Dilek Kurban, Etyen
Mahçupyan, and Belinda Cooper
May 9, 2012
The Cause: A Book
Discussion with Eric Alterman
May 23, 2012
Multicultural Music
Encounters X: A Multicultural
Music and Arts Series with
Dr. Carolle Charles, Dr. Edward
Paulino, Michele Wucker, and
Dr. Luis Mojica June 8, 2012
People Power and Eco-
Power: The New Economics
of True Wealth and Working
Well with Juliet Schor, Lew
Daly, and Mijin Cha at Demos
October 6, 2011
AGRION Smart Cities
Executive Evening Program:
Financing Energy Efficiency
and Renewable Energy
Initiatives June 14, 2012

WORLD POLICY
AROUND THE
TABLE
Celebrating the first 50 years and laying the groundwork
for our next half century, World Policy’s first annual dinner
brought together more than 300 supporters and friends for
constructive and spirited conversations around five key issues:
water, migration, media and conflict, reducing world
financial risk, and new security priorities. This was bigger
than just one night. Bringing together people of diverse interests,
perspectives, and backgrounds is central to our ongoing work. We
need people with fresh ideas and global perspectives to be seated
“around the table” in order to be able to rise to shared challenges.
Top: At each table, hosts including World Policy Fellows and eminent friends engaged
guests in dinner conversations around our five themes.
Middle: World Voice Honoree Jehane Noujaim
Below Left: William Powers leads a discussion on water and resource scarcity.
Below Right: Discussion leaders: Aerotropolis author Greg Lindsay and Project Leader
David Stevens
Opposite Page: President Michele Wucker, Honorees Gary White, Marcus Mabry, and
Jehane Noujaim, and Master of Ceremonies George Stephanopoulos
2012 Honorees:
For their global outlook; fresh and constructive approaches to
problem solving; ability to engage stakeholders, influencers, and a
broad audience; and positive impact on the world, World Policy
recognized:
World Social Impact Award – Gary White and Matt
Damon, Water.org
World Thought Leader Award – Marcus Mabry, The New
York Times and International Herald Tribune
World Voice Award – Jehane Noujaim, Control Room
With Master of Ceremonies George Stephanopoulos

WORLD POLICY
AROUND THE TABLE 2013
May 2, 2013
The TimesCenter
New York City
For more information visit
worldpolicy.org/aroundthetable
Building on the 2012 themes, in
2013 we will spotlight:
Sustainable Global Cities
Entrepreneurship Ecosystems
Closing the Gender Gap
Security Across Borders
Heading Off Financial Crisis
and the Arts-Policy Nexus across all
of these topics.

SUPPORTERS
The World Policy Institute is grateful to the individuals,
foundations, and corporations whose generosity supported
our 2011-2012 programs. We also extend our gratitude to
the many contributors who supported us with gifts under
$250, not listed here due to space limitations.
$100,000+
The Arnhold Foundation
W. Dieter Zander
The Fetzer Institute
$50,000+
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur
Foundation
United States Institute of Peace
Mary C. Van Evera
Deborah E. Wiley
$25,000+
David Brown
Colin and Sharon Morris
$15,000+
Ernst & Young LLP
Estate of Mary Stevens
$10,000+
James Abernathy
Walter Eberstadt
Eurasia Group
Fragomen
Michael Fricklas
Martin and Wendy Kaplan
H. Jeffrey Leonard
David and Clara Londoner
John and Mary Madden
Peter and Andrea Marber
Michael D. Patrick and Carol Sedwick
Jay and Mahsa Pelosky
Kalpana Raina
Jack Rivkin
Kelly Stevens
John H. and Martha M. Watts
Noel and Rosemary Werrett
Viacom
Charles and Merryl Zegar
$5,000+
John W. Allen
William Bohnett
David B. Golub and Lisa Piazza
Charitable Fund
Edward F. Greene
George Sampas
Hans Humes
Heinrich Böll Foundation
Stanley Nabi
Oliver Niedermaier
$1,000+
Peter Alderman
Anonymous
Carroll and Elvira Brown
Joseph Cari
Ethelwyn Doolittle Justice and Outreach
Fund
Jonathan Fanton
Constance Hunter and Christopher
Westwood
Zachary Karabell
Matthew and Elizabeth Luckett
Tanya Melich
Swadesh Rana
$500+
Bryan Cummings
Arch Gillies
Jan Inscho
Grady Means
Yalman Onaran
Ann Phillips
David and Susan Rockefeller
Seymour and Audrey Topping
Michel Zaleski
$250+
Kenneth Barden
Yxa Bazan
Uldis Blukis
Alessandro Castaldo
Robert Levinson
Paddy Mullen
Suzanne Nossel
Ivan Rebolledo
Annie Zhou

LEADERSHIP
A diverse, global group of thought leaders from the
business, legal, financial, media, and NGO spheres bring
new ideas to World Policy Institute and World Policy
Journal throughout the year. We are proud to recognize
their steadfast guidance and support.
Board of Directors
Chairman
John Watts, Sequel Energy Solutions
Vice Chair
Deborah E. Wiley, The Wiley Foundation
Treasurer
Stanley Nabi, Silvercrest Asset
Management Group
Secretary
Peter Alderman, Goldentree Asset
Management
Robert Alexander, IndiePix
John W. Allen, Spring Investment
Corporation
Carroll Brown, US Diplomat and American
Council on Germany (retired)
David Brown, Penobscot
Joseph Cari, Integration Capital & Trade
Diana Glassman, TD Bank
Martin Kaplan, WilmerHale (retired)
Peter Marber, HSBC Halbis Capital
Management
Colin Morris, First Eagle Investment
Management
Oliver Niedermaier, Tau Investment
Management
Kalpana Raina, 252 Solutions
Jack Rivkin, Idealab
Mary Van Evera
Rosemary Werrett, Observatory Group
Dieter Zander, Global Advisory Services
Group
Officers
President
Michele Wucker, World Policy Institute
Editor
David A. Andelman, World Policy Journal
Staff
Director of Development
Kate Maloff
Managing Editor
Christopher Shay, World Policy Journal
Operations Associate
Samuel Roods
Designer
Meehyun Nam-Thompson
Advisory Board
James Abernathy, The Abernathy MacGregor
Group
Henry Arnhold, Arnhold & S. Bleichroeder
Holdings
William Bohnett, Fulbright & Jaworski
Walter Eberstadt, Lazard Frères (retired)
Michael Fricklas, Viacom
David Golub, Golub Capital
Edward F. Greene, Cleary Gottlieb
Nadine Hack, beCause Global Consulting
Hans Humes, Greylock Capital
Zachary Karabell, RiverTwice Research
H. Jeffrey Leonard, Global Environment
Fund
John Madden, Shearman & Sterling
Michael D. Patrick, Fragomen
Ann Phillips
George Sampas, Sullivan & Cromwell
Mojgan Skelton
Olumide Wilkey, UBS Financial Services
World Policy Journal
Editorial Board
Chairman
Seymour Topping, Columbia University
Sulaiman Al-Hattlan, Arab Strategy Forum
Eric Alterman, World Policy Institute
Sidney Blumenthal, Author
Ying Chan, The University of Hong Kong
Mark Danner, The New York Review of Books
Kate Doyle, National Security Archive
Naresh Fernandes, Time Out India
David Fromkin, Boston University
John Maxwell Hamilton, Louisiana State
University
Aziz Z. Huq, University of Chicago Law
School
Azubuike Ishiekwene, Punch Newspaper
Group, Nigeria
Mira Kamdar, World Policy Institute
Peter Kaufman, Intelligent Television
Paul Kelly, The Australian
Anne Nelson, Columbia University
Peter Osnos, PublicAffairs Books
Sherle R. Schwenninger, World Policy
Institute
Nancy E. Soderberg, Connect U.S. Fund
Ronald Steel, University of Southern
California
Angela E. Stent, Georgetown University
Patrick Wajsman, Politique Internationale
Martin Walker, World Policy Institute
Ruth Wedgwood, Johns Hopkins University,
SAIS
Editors Emeritus
Sherle R. Schwenninger (1982-1991)
James Chace (1992-2000)
Karl E. Meyer (2000-2008)

Front Cover Photos
Left: World Policy Journal Managing Editor Christopher Shay
and Editorial Assistant Yelena Niazyan report from Columbia
University’s Leadership Forum
Center: Senior Fellow Kavitha Rajagopalan addresses
the Leadership Forum on the Future of Global Cities at
Columbia University’s School of International and Public
Affairs
Right: World Policy Board Chair John Watts and President
Michele Wucker at World Policy Around the Table 2012
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