In Case You Missed It: Highlights from the Concordia Annual Summit
After three days of impactful sessions involving leading experts from across the globe, the 2024 Concordia Annual Summit came to a close last week with its best showing yet. This year, 300 speakers from 49 different countries joined us in conversations across 106 mainstage sessions, including 9 sitting Heads of State and 58 partner organizations. […]
The Challenge Initiative Named 2024 P3 Impact Award Winner at Concordia Summit
On September 24th at the Concordia Annual Summit, Special Representative for Global Partnerships Dorothy McAuliffe awarded the 2024 P3 Impact Award to The Challenge Initiative. Now in its 11th year, the P3 Impact Award is a partnership between the Department of State’s Office of Global Partnerships, Concordia, and the University of Virginia Darden School of Business […]
Major international business summit coming to London for first time in 2025
A major international business summit will be heading to London for the first time ever next year. Today, it was confirmed that the Concordia Europe Summit will be held in the capital in late spring 2025. The announcement was made at the Concordia Annual Summit in New York, attended by the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan. The Concordia Summit brings together leaders from the public and private sectors to foster collaboration create market-led […]
African Parks Announces $1 Billion Dollar Initiative for Africa
[September 23rd, 2024 -New York, NY] African Parks, a South African based conservation NGO, currently managing over 49 million acres in partnership with governments and communities in countries in Africa, announced a one-billion-dollar initiative to scale conservation efforts across the continent, before the end of the decade in 6 years. In making the announcement in […]
EVPassport CEO Hooman Shahidi to Speak at 2024 Concordia Annual Summit on the Intersection of Infrastructure, Sustainability, and Technology
LOS ANGELES – September 23, 2024 – EVPassport, a global EV charging network, today announced that CEO Hooman Shahidi will speak at the 2024 Concordia Annual Summit, a premier gathering of public and private sector visionaries during the UN General Assembly week, happening September 23-25, in New York City. Shahidi, a longtime proponent of using […]
High-level decision-makers reflect on energy transition, economic growth and security in Porto
The themes of Energy Transition, Economic Growth and Competitiveness, and Co-operation, Peace and Security brought high-level international decision-makers from the public, private and non-profit sectors to Porto for a meeting in search of solutions with strong social impact. The Concordia Europe Summit, which took place at the Palace of Freixo over the course of two […]
Iván Duque: “Petro quer convocar uma Constituinte sem cumprir os requisitos para se perpetuar no poder”
Ex-presidente colombiano, que esteve no Porto para a cimeira da organização Concordia na Europa, traça ao DN um cenário negativo da situação do seu país, não poupando críticas ao sucessor e à esquerda latino-americana. E defende Javier Milei e Jair Bolsonaro. Deixou há quase dois anos a presidência da Colômbia, após quatro anos de mandato […]
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaia: “Lukashenko está a ganhar muito dinheiro com a guerra na Ucrânia”
Em Portugal para participar esta terça-feira no ciclo de conferências Concordia, no Porto, a dissidente bielorrussa fez uma paragem em Lisboa para se encontrar com o primeiro-ministro Luís Montenegro. Antes recebeu o DN, de inseparável pasta com a fotografia do marido na mão. Na semana passada esteve em Estocolmo para uma conferência sobre a […]
Consul Bragagni participated in the 2024 Concordia Europe Summit
Established in 2011 and registered in the US as a nonprofit membership organisation, Concordia is a global convener of heads of state, government officials, C-suite executives, and leaders of nonprofit organisations, think tanks, and foundations. Its main goal is to find cross-sector solutions that address the most significant challenges of our time. It nurtures, enhances, […]
Biden adviser backs bill to counter China in Latin America
Chris Dodd sees chance Congress could pass legislation this year with bipartisan support Concern over China’s economic clout has created “a hell of a chance” for the US to pass legislation paving the way for more free trade deals with Latin American countries, said President Joe Biden’s special adviser for the region. Former senator Chris […]
The need for green: Sustainable takeaways from Concordia Americas Summit
Latin America and the Caribbean are home to a third of the Earth’s freshwater and nearly a quarter of its forests, making it one of the most biodiverse regions in the world. This rich biodiversity translates into billions of dollars worth of ecosystem services. It is also quickly emerging as the new favorite sector for […]