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Impact Journeys take YGLs into heart of Jordan
Focus on leadership as Queen Rania opens YGL Dead Sea Summit
Young Global Leaders Dead Sea Summit
The Young Global Leaders Dead Sea Summit will provide an in-depth experience in a country that is facing a number of challenges, from absorbing two million displaced persons from the conflicts of neighbouring states to diversifying and reducing its dependency on foreign grants. Jordan will provide a unique backdrop against which Young Global Leaders can evaluate their own leadership in trying times and be inspired by local solutions that the country is applying to the global risks and challenges that YGLs face in their leadership roles. The global economic crisis highlights the need to fundamentally rethink and redesign global systems, processes and institutions. It also underscores that the next generation of leaders must stand up and be accountable for the future health of the global system. The Young Global Leaders Dead Sea Summit will help catalyse discussions for this next generation of leaders, who can use the key lessons of the Summit to design and shape a better future.
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The Forum’s Young Global Leaders spent a day traveling throughout Jordan, visiting three local organizations—the Jordan River Foundation, Madrasati and Ruwwad—to learn more about the challenges the country is facing and its obstacles to sustainable development. In a summary plenary back at the Dead Sea, the YGLs committed to ongoing involvement in the Jordanian organizations, from serving as mentors to Jordan’s youth to helping organizations create partnerships around the globe to scale up their initiatives.
Jordan’s inspired and inspiring leadership has made the country a beacon of hope, and Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah shared that light as she welcomed the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders with a message of encouragement, saying they "have the prestige and potential to transform people's lives.” She also urged action: “At a time when the global financial crisis is fast becoming a development emergency, we need you to put your ideas into action more than ever before."
The fifth YGL Summit will be an intense, interactive experience taking place over five days in Jordan, during which Young Global Leaders will incubate the insights and relationships that will help them lead their organizations and communities through the current global crisis. The YGL community is an unparalleled, globally diverse network of peers from all segments of society. The community has proven experience and specific expertise in collaborating across traditional divides to develop innovative and sustainable solutions to the world’s most pressing problems.
