The IfZ is dedicated to molding global leaders of the future. Our methods are threefold: debate, support, inform.
Debate. Our online Policy and Enterprise Forums host some of the most vigorous and creative discussions anywhere. And at our annual "in-the-flesh" meeting, our members gather in a world capital of consequence, often in rooms with sweeping views of that capital — even of its farthest suburbs — to fix the lineaments of human progress.
Support. Having been managed in accordance with the Institut's own prescient analyses, our endowment now permits us to fund several Fellows each year. Members with a surpassing and well-documented propensity for Zukunftsweltführerschaft are encouraged to apply. Many of our Fellows have gone on to such prestigious fellowships as the Ford and Gates Foundations'.
Inform. We regularly publish white papers on pressing world issues, giving crucial insights to emerging leaders. Many are the end products of our Policy and Enterprise Forums. While some are available on this website, others are so unsettling in their conclusions that we feel it best to restrict them to our members, until we have adequately prepared public attitudes for their reception.
March 4, 2009: Read about our new Vergangenheitszukunftsweltführerschaft initiative.
Important News, March 1 2009: Gottlob Schmegg, previously of the Union Bank of Switzerland, has been named Director of the Institut. Read the press release.