Alexander Likhotal served as adviser to Mikhail Gorbachev for many years and is currently the President.
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Alexander Likhotal
President of Green Cross International & Former Adviser to Mikhail Gorbachev
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Alexander Likhotal served as adviser to Mikhail Gorbachev for many years and is currently the President of Geneva-based Green Cross International. He is a member of the Club of Rome, World Academy of Art and Science, Library of Alexandria Board of Trustees, the Climate Change Task Force, the International Council for the Earth Charter, the Board of Directors of the Universal Forum of Cultures, Adviser to the Club of Madrid, and has launched internationally acclaimed initiatives such as the Earth Dialogues Forum and Green Cross International’s global campaign for the Right to Water.
He has utilized his political acumen in swaying governments about the importance of environmental agenda and, under his leadership, Green Cross International has grown into the world’s leading environmental organization with 30 national organizations around the world.
Alexander Likhotal argues that the new challenges the world faces today, will not be met with today’s political systems. But that we still stubbornly cling to the familiar, even when existing models are clearly obsolete and increasingly dysfunctional. Never before have so many things changed so quickly.
Numerous changes are occurring in the models of social, economic, and political activity, in projections of power and authority. The cultural landscape and its relevant “content structures” (democracy, liberalism) are changing simultaneously. Human behavioral patterns and their matching mechanisms are acquiring new qualities. Will current forms of governance and international institutions be able to adapt fast enough to harness and channel change instead of being overwhelmed by it?
As an insider on the political, philanthropic, and environmental world stage, Professor Likhotal is ideally positioned to advise any organization on how to lead the change in the paradigm of today’s global crises. The biggest challenge in the next ten years will be our ability to offset our systemic crisis with comprehensive solutions based on scientific knowledge, focusing on the problem itself and not on usual political agendas. With a presence of a true statesman, he catches audiences off-guard. Perhaps expecting a man of his experience to be intimidating and unapproachable, the truth is just the opposite. When he engages his audience, his passion and personality shines through. He is that rare sort of speaker who can address some of the most serious issues the world is facing, yet leaves his audience with hope, opportunity, and a plan.
Tailoring his engaging presentations to focus on clients’ objectives, Likhotal uses numerous examples of strong leadership and effective decision making to inspire and challenge audiences the world over. He will show you that global fragmentation can burst anyone’s bubble, even yours. It is not just a global issue, best left to current leadership, it affects us all, privately, professionally, and as individuals – and therein lies the problem. We see ourselves as 7 billion individuals, instead of one community with common destiny.
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Post-Covid World
Russia-Loose Cannon of the Modern Politics?
“Debugging” the World Order
Do We Need a Change: Do We Have a Choice?
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A World In Crisis - Alexander Likhotal
Episode 408 Likhotal on Putin
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