Join us for an upcoming CEIBS Executive Forum on May 30, 2024, with Mr. Justin Vaïsse, Founder and Director General of the Paris Peace Forum, who will give a talk on the theme of Rescuing global governance from geopolitical tension: The Paris Peace Forum’s efforts at bridging the gap.

About this event

Many of the challenges that the world faces, including climate change, terrorism, migration, cyber insecurity, and more, stretch across borders. Addressing them, therefore, requires international cooperation and collective action. However, collaboration is increasingly difficult as countries turn inward and geopolitical tensions rise. Today, the international community struggles to produce the necessary solutions.

Created in March 2018, the Paris Peace Forum’s core belief is that peace is more than just the suspension of war. Peace is in fact made up of the myriad solutions that help to reduce international tensions: cooperation to fight climate change and mitigate resource scarcity, institutions to channel power rivalries and better administer global public goods, regulation to address abuses of power and inequality, and gender equality to create more peaceful and equitable societies. In other words, peace will only be sustainable if it is underpinned by effective global governance.

Our speaker

Mr. Justin Vaïsse
Founder and Director General of the Paris Peace Forum

Justin Vaïsse is the Founder and Director General of the Paris Peace Forum, an independent non-profit organisation he created in 2018 under the impetus of French President Emmanuel Macron. The Paris Peace Forum is an annual event that aims to promote new rules and solutions to address the global challenges of our time. The sixth edition took place on November 10-11, 2023, at the Palais Brongniart in Paris and convened around 30 heads of state and international organisations as well as 4,200 participants from the private sector, NGOs, foundations, and civil society at large.

Prior to his current role, Mr. Vaïsse was Director of Policy Planning at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs for more than six years. In this role, he advised the Minister on strategic decisions and provided background analysis and forecasts on international affairs.

From 2007 to 2013, Mr. Vaïsse was Director of Research for the Center on the United States and Europe and a Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institute, where he initiated several projects, including the Brookings Eurozone Survey and the European Foreign Policy Scorecard with the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), an annual evaluation of Europe’s performance on the world stage.

A historian specializing in international relations and American foreign policy, Dr. Vaïsse is the author or co-author of numerous books on the United States, including Neoconservatism – The Biography of a Movement (Harvard University Press, 2010), a book deemed “essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the contours of our recent political past” by the New York Times. His biography of former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski was published in France in 2016, in the US in 2018 under the title Zbigniew Brzezinski – America’s Grand Strategist (Harvard University Press), and in several other countries.

A graduate student from L'Ecole Normale Supérieure and Sciences Po, Mr. Vaïsse received his Agrégation in history in 1996, his Ph.D. in 2005, and his habilitation in 2011. He was a teaching assistant at Harvard University from 1996 to 1997, and an adjunct professor at Sciences-Po from 1999 to2006 and the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University from 2007 to 2013.

Event details

Date: May 30, 2024
Time: 11:00-12:30
Venue: AC3-117, CEIBS Shanghai Campus, 699 Hongfeng Road, Pudong, Shanghai, China
Language: English
Event Format: Offline

Contact/Registration: To register, click the link below, contact Ms. Frieda Wang at execforum@ceibs.edu, or call +86-21-28905310 for more information.

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