Global Challenges for the makers of the future

Our world is under strain – Sustainable development is the central global challenge of our time. It is critical that we understand how sustainable development can be achieved in practice, on the ground, in all parts of the world.

A stable and broad education in business is no longer enough. Consequently, the Bachelor program in Business and Economics at the Stockholm School of Economics has been updated to include a new track called Global Challenges.

One program – part of the BSc Business and Economics program will provide tools to understand the challenges that SSE graduates meet in their professional lives, forming the leaders of tomorrow.

The Global Challenges Foundation works to raise awareness of the Global Catastrophic Risks. Primarily focused on climate change, other environmental degradation and politically motivated violence as well as how these threats are linked to poverty and rapid population growth.

Against this background, the Foundation also works to both identify and stimulate the development of good proposals for a management model – a global governance – able to decrease, and at best eliminate these risks.